A portion of it CataloniaIn northeast Spain, it was today on a red alarm for heavy rainfall the day after the problems on the island of Ibitha due to forecast for bad weather.

This alarm was activated for its province Tarragea by the Aemet National Weather Service, which provides for 180 mm of rain within 12 hours.

Catalonia Civil Protection Service sent a telephone warning by calling locals Monkiasouth of Tarragona, to avoid moving and not approach waterfalls.

And the president of the regional government, Salvadorparticipated in the appeal on social media, inviting citizens to show “maximum attention”.

Catalan Emergency Services published the relevant data on the calls they received, reporting a large increase from 17.00 local time, with 142 recorded cases. “Floods have been recorded in some places,” AeMet already said on the X platform.

Transport problems have begun to report, mainly due to floods in railway and highway sections.

This last alarm is activated after the announcement that the periphery of Valenciain eastern Spain, which suffered the most deadly floods in the country last year, was not affected by the new red alarm on Friday.

The airport in Ibitha, the island off the Valencia region, was forced to temporarily suspend its operation on Saturday, before it started again.

Scientists say that the climate change due to human activity intensifies extreme weather events, such as intense flooding rainfall.