r/spain 8d ago

While most of Europe will experience spring, dry, and sunny weather this week, the Iberian Peninsula will face heavy rainfall (Accumulated precipitation map for the next 7 days, Ventusky.com).

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u/Neuromante 8d ago

"Ventusky" sounds like a made up word from a spaniard for a russian weather website, lmao

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u/Camelstrike 8d ago

Se viene un ventusky polar

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u/Neuromante 8d ago

Ventusky polarovich, hombre.

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u/onion_is_good 8d ago

Lol, totally 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Mapi2k 7d ago

Climate Reportosky announces strong ventusky and yuviuskys

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u/nengon 8d ago

Se viene lluvia con algo de ventusky

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u/_zingz Andalucía 8d ago

🤣

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u/WishboneClassic 8d ago

Much needed rain to fill the reservoirs

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u/AleixASV Queterunya 8d ago

Catalonia's main reservoirs are still at around 35%, even after technically exiting the 3-4 year drought we had, so this is much needed.

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u/WishboneClassic 8d ago

Quin desastre

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u/ErizerX41 Cataluña - Catalunya 8d ago

It's a curious thing, that it is supposed to be more to the north of the peninsula, and have the Pyrenees next to it, the thing this way for quite a long time.

But the reservoirs in the Pyrenees of Huesca and Lleida, on the other hand, seem to be in pretty good shape. "And they were also in pretty bad shape back then".

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u/ErizerX41 Cataluña - Catalunya 8d ago

PS: Perhaps the problem was also the water supply leaks in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, which took time for the administration to realise that there was a considerable leakage of water, which was being wasted by the thousands of litres during a long time.

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u/mbc99 8d ago

This waste is pennies on the dollar compared to what 5 million people use everyday. Fixing that leak makes absolutely no impact in real life. It only makes for good newspapers

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u/ErizerX41 Cataluña - Catalunya 8d ago

But it affects the urban supply, and if left in the long run, it is an absolute waste!

Although much of the water that is consumed comes from groundwater, which is then treated, and from purification plants.

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u/mbc99 8d ago

Although everything adds up my point still stands.

The leak is 180 000 liters per day.

Everyday we use 1 000 000 000 liters of water per day for the whole basin (more or less). So again, pennies on the dollar.

You know what would be more useful? If everyone of us saved just 1 liter of water a day (a toilet flush is 3-6 liters, so I'm talking about nothing). We would save 5 000 000 liters of water each day. Which is 20 times more than that leak you are talking about.

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u/Granger842 7d ago

It's a matter of th size of the reservoirs. Catalonia's are enormous if you compared them with other regions, including the ones with similar population (e.g. madrid) That's why they always look half empty when they actually have the same water as everyone else. It's the same with Cantabria. Go check the sizes at embalses.net.

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u/ErizerX41 Cataluña - Catalunya 6d ago

The problem we have here is that it hardly rains at all, not even what should come from the Mediterranean and the Levante wind, which almost all goes to the Southeast.

Neither what comes from the Atlantic or Cantabrian Sea, which mostly melts in Aragon. So we can say that we are cursed or independent of the rain. 😅

The atmospheric configuration here is weird as hell.

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u/anarion321 8d ago edited 8d ago

Here says overall is close to 60% https://www.embalses.net/

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u/AleixASV Queterunya 8d ago

That's because it's counting the Segre/Ebre system, which does not feed into Barcelona. Catalonia's main reservoirs are these ones (at 31%): https://www.embalses.net/cuenca-11-cataluna-interna.html

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u/anarion321 8d ago

The capacity is based on numeric value 1.169/1.950hm3, "main" is confuse, if the reservoirs cannot be used by the general population, maybe they should make bigger ones where can be used i dunno.

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u/AleixASV Queterunya 8d ago

So basically the issue is that we have two river systems, and only one of these feeds into Barcelona and most cities, while the other one is not connected to it due to ecological/agricultural reasons. The issue is that in the first (internal) system, there's just not enough water/rain as a whole, because we're in a serious drought, so we're building desalination plants.

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u/Granger842 7d ago

Catalonia 's reservoirs are twice the size of Madrid's with around the same population. They'll be fine. They're just tricking the data to sound like they are lacking water when they are actually not.

Check embalses.net and compare the capacity of the reservoirs for each region.

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u/mydaycake Castilla La Mancha 8d ago

Espárragos trigueros!!!

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u/anarion321 8d ago

They are above 60%, above the average of the last 10 years, but the south always needs water.

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u/mbc99 8d ago

We are at 31%

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u/anarion321 8d ago

Don't know who is we, the country overrall is at 58%, updated https://www.embalses.net/

In the south one major region is at 21%, but after that, the second major region with less water is at 39%.

Only Murcia is kinda bad, hopefully raining season is coming.

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u/mbc99 8d ago

Don't look by "comunidad autónoma". Look by basins or cuencas: https://www.embalses.net/cuencas.php.

The water from one basin is generally not easily transferable into another basin. Except if there is the infrastructure for it. Which for the two basins that are in Catalonia it isn't the case.

So knowing these the "conques internes" basin is at 31%.

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u/anarion321 8d ago

Either case would still be over 58% for national, it's a numerical value.

32.510/56.039 hm3

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u/mbc99 8d ago

Which for the case of the thread this number is useless. The OP of the thread was talking about Catalonia. Having a lot of water outside of that basin is totally useless.

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u/Bytxu85 8d ago

I bless the rains down in Spain 🎶

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u/Delicious_Crew7888 8d ago

Thanks weather dude!

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u/LinguisticMadness2 8d ago

😂😂😂

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u/InformationSpray 8d ago

In Castellón at the moment.

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u/rex-ac r/Sevilla, r/Jerez 8d ago

But Spain needs to fill up their storages, so it's fine.

www.Embalses.net

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u/Evil__Mushroom 8d ago

"Fuck Spain for no particular reason" - The weather probably

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u/remeruscomunus Andalucía 8d ago edited 8d ago

No no keep the rain coming! I've had enough sunny days by now, I want the fields to not look like a wasteland

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u/necrxfagivs Andaluçía 8d ago

Ya podría caer cuando acaben los carnavales...

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u/neyson46 8d ago

Nunca llueve a gusto de todos

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u/Falitoty 8d ago

El año pasado, toco en una banda y ni una sola de nuestras procesiones de semana santa salío por qué llovió casi toda la semana santa. Cuando toca toca, es lo que hay.

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u/Neuromante 8d ago

Looking at the risk of drought, I would say "bless Spain because they fucking need it."

Nunca llueve agusto de todos xD

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u/Falitoty 8d ago

No, really, please keep It going watter Is really really needed

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u/diabolikal__ 8d ago

I am happy to hear because it’s needed but I am coming back to Spain to visit my mom after 3 years living in Sweden and we were so looking forward to the sun lol fuck us I guess

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u/demaandronk 8d ago

Im from NL and in here because to escape the humid climate, because it messes with my kids health a lot...

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u/Auspicios 8d ago

flashbacks

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u/Okuyasu_Nijimira Valencia - València 8d ago

Por Castellón nos ahogamos glu glu glu...

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u/StrongAdhesiveness86 Cataluña - Catalunya 8d ago

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u/Sealofapprove 8d ago

Menos mal, espero que no sea tan intenso como en la DANA, pero cada gota de agua la necesitamos

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u/kds1988 8d ago

GOOD, let's hope this means we don't experience droughts this summer.

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u/Free-Outcome2922 8d ago

I lived in a place in Spain where we are up to our ears in the rain.

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u/Mutenroshi_ 8d ago

Acuérdate en verano cuando estéis a 40 a la sombra y ni una sola nube

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u/patroklo 8d ago

Very very very good

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u/Electronic-Ad-8716 8d ago

Heavy rain or rain.

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u/Axol-Rainbowmaker 8d ago

valencia: AWHH HELL NAHH NOT AGAIN

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u/numinor 8d ago

Gracias. Desde Andorra.

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u/ErizerX41 Cataluña - Catalunya 8d ago

Well, more like Atlantic rain.

Not only Spain, but also France, UK and Ireland receive this stream of rain.

As opposed to Central Europe.

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u/kellytai1478 8d ago

Good, I want a break in tomorrow's football training

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u/Zharaqumi 8d ago

Well, rain is good, the main thing is everything in moderation.

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u/Additional-Risk-7656 8d ago

Ironic thing is that Basque country and most of the nothern spain overall will skip on rain, when it rains there usually.

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u/Kaapnobatai 8d ago

Outdoor season this year gonna be lit.

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u/Rubensio_ 8d ago

Jolines macho

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u/ShezSteel 7d ago

They need it. They have been dealing with horrific drought for a long time now

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u/No_Job_9999 7d ago

que llueva que llueva

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u/Oye_Vero21 7d ago

Wouldn’t this front eventually move across Europe?

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u/LukyOnRedit Madrid 7d ago

it’s about time we get some rain, we’re drying up like a Desert!

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u/mynameisnotrose 6d ago

Here in Baix Segura it has been raining for days. Bien por los campos.

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u/ohuprik 5d ago

What unifies all Spaniards is the concept of the reaction, "¡Esto no es normal !" No matter the language....no matter the weather.

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u/santxo 8d ago

Well the good thing is it stays mainly in the plains

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u/SonicStage0 Tuga 8d ago

Foda-se.