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On Tuesday, heavy rains caused the closure of roads and schools in Valencia and Castellon provinces.
Valencia has 16 roads affected by landslides and flooding. Only four are passable with caution.
Authorities have closed 12 roads in the province of Castellon.
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The Valencia Community has closed its schools for the day on Tuesday. This is mainly a precaution.
Forecasters have predicted that rain will continue to fall until Thursday, although at levels far lower than those of the October storm which led to the Valencia floods.
According to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), there will be rain throughout the region ‘at one time or another’ through to Thursday and are maintaining an ‘orange’ alert.
In the provinces of Valencia and Castellon, it will persist in the inland and mountains pre-coastal areas. It is localized as strong or very intense.
The storm is expected to be worst on Wednesday and Thursday with heavy rain.
Winter rains are less intense than those of autumn but some ravines still have been inundated.
Aemet, via social media, explained that “Problems have been registered in a way much more controlled and torrential than an autumn storm”.
At midday, neither the 112 Emergency Coordination Centre nor the Government Delegation had reported any serious incidents related to this storm.
In the last 48-hours, rain has been falling in the inland parts of the province of Valencia as well as pre-coastal and inland areas of Castellon. This rainfall is above 200 litres/m2, according to the Valencian Association of Meteorology.
Localised storms are a characteristic of the storms.
Aemet claims that these are slow-moving thunderstorms which cause large amounts of rainfall to accumulate, but without the intensity experienced during a DANA on October 29, 2017.
On Monday, there were also reports of lightning strikes in Castellon and the neighbouring provinces Valencia and Valencia.
