Video: Heavy Rain Ruins Denia’s Float Parade And Sweeps Across The Costa Blanca

A torrential downpour disrupted Denia’s float parade connected Saturday July 12, contempt nan arena going up pursuing respective meetings betwixt Denia Town Council and nan section Fallas board. This was successful spite of a yellowish upwind informing that remained successful spot until 9pm. The problem arose erstwhile Aemet later upgraded nan alert to orange, forecasting up to 50mm of rainfall successful an hour. Even so, nan event—featuring hundreds of participants, galore of them young group and children—was not cancelled.

The dense rainfall struck astatine astir 8.15pm. Those taking portion successful nan parade scrambled for screen nether umbrellas and building eaves. There were visible expressions of vexation and anger, arsenic Fallas groups had spent months preparing their floats, which were near abandoned and drenched successful nan streets of nan metropolis centre. The parade had hardly precocious a fewer metres. Members of different groups, however, chose to look nan business pinch good-natured resignation, continuing to singing and creation arsenic champion they could nether cover.

Following nan escalation to an orangish alert, nan municipality hallway announced astatine astir 8pm that nan remainder of Saturday’s Festa Major programme would beryllium cancelled, including nan Ana Guerra performance and nan mobile disco scheduled successful Torrecremada. These activities, it stated, were incompatible pinch nan orangish warning. But for nan float parade, nan announcement came excessively late. The section Fallas committee has since said it will meet pinch nan various groups to work together connected a caller day for nan parade. It has already ruled retired Saturday 19 July. Unsurprisingly, nary prizes were awarded either, arsenic astir groups had hardly begun their procession.

The upwind forecast had predicted dense rainfall crossed nan Marina Alta region, which remained connected orangish alert into Sunday—and nan forecast proved accurate.

From northbound to southbound on nan Costa Blanca, aggravated rainfall was recorded successful respective locations: successful Denia, ample hailstones were accompanied by beardown gusts of wind, thunder and lightning; successful nan waters disconnected Javea, respective waterspouts were sighted; and successful Pedreguer, a lightning onslaught sparked a wood occurrence that was later extinguished by emergency services. Calpe besides knowledgeable important rainfall.

Lightning onslaught sparks wood occurrence successful Pedreguer

A powerful thunderstorm, accompanied by aggravated lightning, developed astir 2pm connected Saturday successful nan Marina Alta region, arsenic nan upwind beforehand known arsenic a DANA moved in—just arsenic meteorologists had predicted. The large wind caused collateral damage, nan afloat grade of which is still being assessed. One lightning onslaught triggered a wood occurrence successful Pedreguer.

Emergency services from nan Generalitat confirmed astir 2.20pm that nan blaze had been caused by a lightning strike.

The 112 emergency coordination centre deployed some crushed and aerial firefighting resources, including 2 units of nan Generalitat’s wood firefighters, 2 occurrence engines, 2 teams from nan Alicante Fire Brigade and 1 aircraft. The occurrence was officially declared extinguished astatine 3.17pm, according to 112.

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