The intense sea storm continues to affect the Catalan coast this Sunday and has hit the beaches hard. Although Civil Protection has lowered the alert for waves, it calls for extreme precautions in professional and recreational maritime activities on the coast.
According to Meteocat, the waves can still exceed 2.5 meters along this Sunday between the north of Tarragona and Baix Empordà. From the afternoon, it is expected that the impact will be concentrated on the central coast and the Empordà, with strong gusts of wind from the south and gusts of between 50 and 70 km/h.
For now, the storm has caused damage in some towns such as Sant Antoni de Calonge. In an interview on the RAC1 program Via lliure, Mayor Jordi Soler explained that there are stretches of beach without “a grain of sand”, areas with structural damage and the promenade cut off by falling palm trees. Soler denounces the “deplorable” state of the beaches and says that, in 20 years in office, he “had not seen anything like this.”
There have also been damages in Garraf and Baix Llobregat. In Sitges, the waves have made a good part of the sand disappear from Sant Sebastià beach, where access to pedestrians has been cut off as a precaution. In the town of Garraf, the water arrived this morning next to the huts. Further to the north, Gavà beach has practically disappeared in certain points and the water reached the bike path and the pedestrian promenade that runs along it.
In Barcelona, ??the one that has suffered the most is the beach of Sant Sebastià. During the early hours of the morning, the nearly one-meter-high hole that Storm Nelson left on the beach on Thursday worsened and a good part of it has been swallowed by the sea. Some showers have been left bare and several pipes have been exposed. In Badalona, ??the storm has forced the beach bar in front of the Anís del Mono to be dismantled.
