Satellite Imagery Shows Breadth of Flooding in Spain
Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency shows the extent of flooding around the coastal region of Valencia.
Valencia saw a year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours, with floods destroying buildings, disrupting trains, and leaving more than
An analysis from World Weather Attribution found that climate change was “the most likely explanation” for the unusually severe downpour. Warming, it saidmade the rainfall 12 percent heavier. A separate analysis from Climate Central showed that uncommonly warm ocean waters fueled the storm, and that the excessive ocean heat was made at least 50 times more likely by climate change.
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Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency shows the extent of flooding around the coastal region of Valencia.
Valencia saw a year’s worth of rainfall in just eight hours, with floods destroying buildings, disrupting trains, and leaving more than
An analysis from World Weather Attribution found that climate change was “the most likely explanation” for the unusually severe downpour. Warming, it saidmade the rainfall 12 percent heavier. A separate analysis from Climate Central showed that uncommonly warm ocean waters fueled the storm, and that the excessive ocean heat was made at least 50 times more likely by climate change.
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