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This is how climate change multiplied the devastation of the DANA in Valencia

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October 29, 2024 was marked as one of the most tragic days in the recent history of Spain due to the DANA that hit the region of Valencia and left 230 fatalities, billions in economic losses and rainfall that shattered records. And it is no wonder, because in stations like Turís, they accumulated 771.8 mm in just 16 hours and the national record for rainfall in one hour was broken with 184.6 mm. And now investigations are emerging about it. Climate change. We know that this effect is altering the hydrological cycle at a global level, but now a new and exhaustive published study in Nature led by researcher Carlos Calvo-Sancho, has managed to measure exactly how and how much this storm was ‘doped’ by blame for anthropogenic global warming. And the most interesting thing is that it opens the door to the fact that these phenomena may be more common in the coming years. Pure physics. Days after the disaster, rapid attribution initiatives such as Attribution and ClimaMeter They had already estimated, according to the most basic parameters, that this meteorological event had been twice as likely and 13% more intense due to climate change. Although at that time it was simply preliminary data that required confirmation and above all ‘sitting down’ to analyze it well. That analysis has arrived many months later in a new work that goes far beyond these quick figures and focuses on the physical fundamentals. Here the researchers used very high resolution simulations under an approach called ‘Pseudo-Global Warming’. A simulation. This approach is nothing more than recreating the October 2024 storm on a computer to see the devastation that occurred and then simulating it again by removing the effects of global warming from the formula. This is achieved by returning the atmosphere to the conditions of the pre-industrial era, which is like a reference point when talking about climate change. The data. By comparing both simulated worlds, the supercomputer results showed the tremendous impact of the human hand on the storm. The most interesting results that were obtained can be summarized in four different points: Six-hour rainfall rates intensified by 21% under current weather conditions. The territory affected by rains exceeding 180 liters per square meter, which for the AEMET is the red notice limit, was expanded by 55%. The total volume of water falling directly on the Júcar River basin increased by 19%. The intensity of rain in one hour increased at a rate of 20% for each degree Celsius of temperature, something that is very relevant. And to understand it, we have to go to the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, which dictates that the atmosphere should retain 7% more water vapor for each extra degree of temperature. Something that was duplicated here. Because?. Here the question that many people can ask, both from the affected areas and from other parts of Spain, is clear: Why did it rain so much more than what the basic theory dictated? Here the science suggests that it all started with unusually high temperatures on the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, which reached record levels in the summer of 2024. This injected a huge amount of water vapor into the system, and when comparing the current simulation with the pre-industrial one, the scientists detected, among other things, an 11.9% increase in the water that could precipitate or 11.9% more violent and faster updrafts. The perfect cocktail. In short, the greater amount of water evaporated in the sea by high temperatures and air not only caused more rain, but also triggered an aerodynamic and thermal domino effect that made the storm much larger, longer lasting and more destructive than could be expected. Towards the future. These findings are important to understand exactly what happened here, but they also raise a big warning: extreme hydrometeorological phenomena in the western Mediterranean are evolving aggressively. In this way, the study highlights that the future scenarios projected by climatologists are already here, making it urgent and vital that we rethink our urban planning and our adaptation strategies to prepare for storms that are going to be increasingly more aggressive, as we keep seeing. Images | EMU Chris LeBoutillier In Xataka | Some say worrying about climate change is a “first world problem.” A macro survey proves him right

More than 800 vehicles are still missing after the Dana. And without a car, there is no help

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Soon a year of the devastating Dana that swept Valencia and there are still many affected who have not found their car. More than 800, as reported Levante-EMV. As the vehicle cannot unsubscribe, many of them either They can collect aid To get a new one. We have talked to one of those affected who lost his vehicle in the Dana. 125,000. It is the number of cars affected by the Dana: The greatest scratch in the history of Spain. The owners of the sinister vehicles have received aid of up to 10,000 euros to get a new vehicle. The problem is that many of them have not yet found their vehicle after floods and is necessary to start the process. Videos and photos. Given the impossibility of peritating so many vehicles in situ, insurers requested videos or photos to be able to certify the damage of the vehicle. Only in this way could they leave it to subsequently be able to opt for the help of the Insurance Compensation Consortium. Jessica Rojas, photographer Resident in Catarroja, he tells us that he was trying to find his vehicle for a long time to be able to make the video-pursue that they asked: “I never found my car. I threw months and months looking for it, I went to all the carees of cars in the area and nothing,” he recalls. Dead end. The impossibility of certifying the damage of the car has left many owners with their hands tied. As they point out in Levante-EMV, in the section of frequent questions of the Insurance Compensation Consortium, This problem appears: The insurance compensation consortium, under the insurance contract that covers the damage of your vehicle, cannot compensate the damage as long as it has no verification of the damage to it. Once the fields currently enabled by the different municipalities have been emptied, the consortium will analyze, case by case, the actions to be carried out. Find the car. Jessica was not the only one who lost the car in her area: “Many neighbors made as a network with the videos we had done in the streets to search for cars.” He believes that he was stolen because he managed to find a couple of cars that the water took next to his, but did not appear. Tools were created to locate lost cars such as the Generalitat or of the affected municipalitiesbut there are still vehicles that nobody knows where they have ended. There are not many options and some of those affected have organized in This Facebook group. In the end yes. Jessica’s case is curious because, although she didn’t have the video they asked for, she did have a video she recorded from her window in which his car was seen before sinking underwater. After many months fighting, he managed to grant him the aid. The amount was much lower than the value of the car, but it could be worse. “I know many people who have not paid anything because they have not found them,” he confesses. Image | Amparo Babyloni, Xataka In Xataka | The deadly trap before a flood like Dana in Valencia: cars. What can we learn from other catastrophes

Aemet warns of the arrival of a new Dana, and is expected

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Just a couple of days ago, weather models They began to glimpse The possible formation of a new isolated depression in height, a Dana, on the waters of the Atlantic. The observations are confirming the expected and now the experts warn of the arrival of a phenomenon that is expected intense. Special notice. The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) has issued a special notice for storms and intense rainfall associated with the newly formed Dana. The situation will affect the northern half and third this peninsular between tomorrow 11 and Saturday, July 12. What’s happening. At the beginning of this week, meteorologists proved that the Peninsula had been divided between two air masses, one to the north, under the influence of vaguades and a mass of cold air, and another to the south with anticyclonic time in which heat resisted leaving. The days have passed and but the apparent return of stability and heat has been just a mirage, at least for part of the country. The reason is the decoration of a Dana, an area of ​​low height pressures that is separating from the cold circulation of the north. This Dana is being formed to the west of the Iberian Peninsula and will soon arrive by the atmospheric circulation itself. What we can expect. Aemet’s special notice speaks From the arrival of “high adversity storms in the northern and third half of our territory, accompanied locally of large hail, very strong wind and very strong showers.” Tomorrow, Friday 11, they await us according to the agency storms that would gain intensity from the afternoon both in the Cantabrian mountain range and in the Iberian system, and that they would go little by little by moving north or northeast. These storms could lead to hail of size greater than 2 cm in diameter and showers that would accumulate up to 30-40 mm in an hour, in addition to “very strong” wind gusts. On Saturday 12, Aemet sees “likely” that the Dana is moving to the east, which would take instability to the west peninsular and, especially, to the northeast quadrant. Uncertainty. The forecasts They point out the probable arrival of this extreme but Aemet event warns of a certain degree of uncertainty. As they explain, the probability that the arrival of the Dana has storms and intense rainfall is “very high”, greater than 70%, but not total. As they detail, “the described scenario is quite likely, the uncertainty inherent to this type of disturbances makes it difficult to specify the areas where a greater impact will occur.” Uncertainty increases the more we move away in time, but the agency estimates that the Dana’s passage does not have major impacts from Sunday, day 13. In Xataka | “Clouds of fire”, the phenomenon that makes escape from sixth generation fires can make it impossible Image | ECMWF

Valencia feared that the housing market sink into the areas devastated by the DANA. The opposite has happened

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The Dana that He hit the province From Valencia in October it was so violent, it caused so many damage and affected so many people, that in the real estate agencies of the area they feared that the market was upside down. “It was thought that it was going to sink into the most devastated areas,” Recognize The sector. Reality has been another. The region has not only maintained The tension Between supply and demand suffered before the Dana, but has added an extra factor: Damage who suffered hundreds of households. The Association of Real Estate of the Valencian Community (ASCival) has published A report It helps to better understand how the market has responded. “We saw that the demand was strong”. Nora García Donet, president of ASCival, acknowledges that the market response after the Dana has even surprised the sector. After the rains they feared a puncture in the market, but reality has been quite different: the demand remained high while the offer (which in many cases was already subject to intense pressure before disaster) It was marked by the loss of households razed by rain and mud. “In the first moments it was thought that the market was going to sink into the areas most devastated by the Dana, but soon we saw that the demand was strong in a context in which many homes had been inoperative, and this trend is the one that has been maintained over time,” Donet points out. That equation has ended up moving to another key element: prices. A percentage: 18%. The report Ascival provides a fundamental fact to understand the drift of the market: the price of housing has increased by 18% in the municipalities hit by the DANA. More specifically 18.8% in the sale market and 18.1% in the lease. Translated to counting and sound money that means that houses for sale in the affected areas cost 171,428 euros while the rentals are around 800. The provinces has deepened Something else and calculates that a floor for sale in the towns razed by the downpours has increased, on average, about 32,000 euros. In the case of homes for rent, the price increase would be at 145 euros per month. All compared to the values ​​of seven months ago. What is the reason? The same that usually causes price increases in normal conditions: the imbalances between supply and demand. In Your study Ascival indicates a growing decoupling between both both in the sale market and in the rental. In the first case, the association calculates that the demand for houses for sale has shot 22% while the offer has fallen by 31.3%. In the second case, that of the Property Market to lease, the demand has shot 27.1% with the offering supply (38%). “Little more than six months after the devastating consequences of the DANA, the real estate situation in the affected municipalities follows the same trend of price and demand and contribution trend and contrition of the housing supply as in the rest of the Valencian territory,” Point out As a conclusion the Asicval report. That reality is verified by the region’s own agencies. More than half (54.3%) ensures that the supply of housing for sale has decreased and almost 90%(87.5%) have noticed price orange blossom. 58% also believe that there is more rental demand, while 96% consider that the supply has been maintained or dropped. The role of the Dana. The report It does not detail to what extent the increase can be related to the effect of the DANA or its influence on supply and demand, although it does slide some interesting data. The main one is that most people interested in buying or renting a house in the affected municipalities are locals. This is perceived at least by the agencies, which also ensure that customers do not seem especially interested in knowing whether or not the properties are in flood areas, but they do prefer apartments in height buildings. The tension in the market is not new, nor has it emerged after the October disaster. In 2024 Idealista published A report in which he already pointed out that the district with the greatest pressure in the demand for housing in Spain was in the Central-Horte de Trenor area, in Torrent. During the last months the house It has become more expensive Also in the whole of the province of Valencia, not only in the areas affected by the DANA. What the torrential rains did was sweep hundreds of homesdamaging them or leaving them temporarily uninhabitable. Image | Manuel Pérez García and Estefania Monerri Mínguez (Wikipedia) In Xataka | An old dream is injured in Barcelona: the idea of ​​”a house for a lifetime” without fear of move

The government wanted to promote the electric car after the Dana with 10,000 euros of help. Everything indicates that he has not delivered any

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On October 29, 2024, tragedy began. Various autonomous communities of eastern Spain but, above all, the Valencian Community saw how strong rains and the posterior floods left 225 dead in their path and three missing people that have not yet been found. Although the Term Dana refers to an “isolated depression in high levels” (the famous cold drop), in memory it has remained as Dana de Valencia What lived on the border between October and November 2024. Some floods that also left the material damage that affected 360,000 people. Months later we have known that he points to 141,000 cars affected by the floods. Most of them insurmountable although we have had images that leave us some optimism, saving vehicles with half a century behind them. Trying to recover normality, populations faced the challenge of What to do with the greatest scratch in history of Spain and how to recover from the consequences. Among those measures to replenish all those vehicles, At the end of November 2024 the government announced that launched the Plan Reinicia Auto+. With him he wanted to give financial aid to those who had lost his car with the floods, delivering an economic amount for the purchase of a new vehicle. The program contemplated the delivery of aid both for the purchase of new and second -hand vehicles but rewarded those who jump to zero emissions. Specifically, the Aid They are distributed as follows: New vehicles with zero label: 10,000 euros. New vehicles with ECO label or C: 5,000 euros. Second -hand vehicles with zero label: 4,000 euros. Second -hand vehicles with ECO label or C: 2,000 euros. Vehicles for people with reduced mobility will have extra help of 1,000 euros more and 500 euros on three -wheeled motorcycles. Motorcycle aid vary between 2,000 euros and 500 euros depending on whether they are new or second -hand and its ecological rating. The problem is that the Ministry of Industry and Tourism has already submitted the accrediting document with the relationship of the beneficiaries of these aid. But, there is no help to a car of zero emissions. What happens? Aid that seem frozen First of all, the first thing to be clear about is how the aids of the Reinicia Auto+Plan are delivered. As explained in the Article 9 of Royal Decree-Law 8/2024 in which urgent measures are collected to help those affected by the DANA, the procedure is the following: If the client had already bought the car before the aid was opened (they did it on December 18), the dealers had to make an entry to the beneficiaries once the aid was approved with the corresponding file. If the client had not yet bought the car, the concessionaire processed the aid and it was discounted from the final price of the car once all taxes were applied. In The automotive tribune They explain that the first aid began to surrender last February. By then, more than 10,000 subsidies to purchase had been requested and as the delay in the deliveries of the aid was affecting customers, in some cases the vehicles began to be delivered before receiving the money with the concessionaire’s commitment to return that money afterwards. But these grants have only been arriving in vehicles with a C and echo label of the DGT, according to Digital economythat raise the number of aid to More than 25,000 files For this type of vehicles. These aid are reflected in the accrediting document of the beneficiaries of the same. Indeed, as can be seen in this document, there is no approved help to cars with zero DGT emissions label. That is, no plug or electric hybrid (both new and second -hand) has received confirmation of such aid for purchase. In the middle they ensure that sources from the Ministry of Industry confirm that “the aid of 10,000 euros are on zero label. Electric cars are paid with European funds, and its processing is being carried out.” From Xataka We have put ourselves in contact With the Ministry of Industry to confirm if this situation is true and where the funds of these aid come from, as well as the procedure that is carried out to deliver them, trying to understand why any car with zero emissions stickers of the DGT has received the approval still for the delivery of said aid. Similarly, we have contacted Faconauto, the largest representative of the Spanish dealers to know if it is true that the aids related to electric cars are frozen or have not received any approval. When we write this article, we have not obtained an answer from the Ministry of Industry and Tourism or Faconauto Photo | Manuel Pérez García and Estefania Monerri Mínguez and Pool Moncloa/César P. Sendra In Xataka | Razed by the Dana but without compensation: in which assumptions we can claim the insurance money for our car

The Dana left 800,000 tons of waste and mud in Valencia. Now they will reuse for raw material

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The Dana that hit the Valencian Community on October 29, 2024 caused great shock throughout the country, leaving more than 200 fatal victims. In almost five months, I They have generated More than 800,000 tons of waste mixed with mud, a huge figure, since the Valencian Community usually produces an annual average of 180,000 tons. And what are they going to do? In recent months we have seen with much of the national population has turned with the reconstruction and aid in the streets of the Valencian municipalities. However, given the data on the waste, the Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory He has decided to reuse The land mixed with flood waste for various works in landfills, quarries, agriculture and construction. Reuse. One of the points enabled to carry out this work is in one of the most affected areas of the catastrophe, Catarroja. The project consists of a machine that will make a screening between earth and waste, and then analyze them and make sure they are free of pollutants. Once treated, the Earth can be reused in different spaces. However, it is not there, because it is diversifying in other types of waste, such as tires, butane, scrap and mattresses, for its specific treatment. Reuse in agriculture. The floods caused by the overflow of rivers and ravines dragged large amounts of mud, debris and waste that affected both crops and soil quality. La Ribera Alta and the area of ​​L’Abufera, Key areas for agricultureThey saw how their rice crops, citrus and vegetables were destroyed. For this reason, working on the recovery of the affected soils trying to the sludge and the polluting sediments. However, mud samples taken in the area of ​​the Natural Park of L’Albufera are currently low, but concern persists on long -term effects. Other points to manage waste. The Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory has created Local collection points in which to accumulate the remains of the municipalities. Transfer points have also been enabled where to make a first crushing treatment, separation of metals and mattresses, located in Quart-Manises, Picasent, Catarroja and Alfafar. Waste energy management. While the Valencian Ministry has promoted this type of solutions, also It is exploring The possibility of incinerating some of this waste. In fact, incineration, as if it were a thermal power plant, allows transforming the heat generated into electricity. In fact, several experts They have defended That incineration reduces the percentage of rejection and, in addition, put as an example that burned waste produces ashes that are useful to develop, among other things, cement. In addition, Spain has advanced Significantly in the use of the biomethane, a clean energy source that can be generated from organic waste and landfills. The use of biomethane could complement the efforts of the Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, by providing a sustainable energy solution and reducing the environmental impact of the waste generated by the DANA. Forecasts While the terrain is still being cleaned, one of the areas most affected by waste dragged by the Dana has been the Albufera of Valencia and its beaches. In them, more than 60,000 kilograms of garbage have been removed, including up to 36 varieties of different waste, such as tires, bumpers, butane, furniture and plastics. As cleaning and recovery efforts continue, more additional measures will have to be implemented to address waste dragged by future floods or natural catastrophes. Image | GVA Xataka | We have been thinking that the recycling of plastics worth something. Maybe we were wrong

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