(26 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Sau Reservoir, Vilanova de Sau, Spain – 24 March 2025
1. Various aerials of Sau reservoir full of water
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain – 25 March 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Argüeso, Climate Scientist:
"The blessing and the curse of Spanish climate is exactly that. We have these periods of extended drought that are usually ended with these kind of situations. Having said that, the the rain we had in March, especially in the… excluding the northwestern, has been quite exceptional in most areas."
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Sau Reservoir, Vilanova de Sau, Spain – 24 March 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Catalan) Montse Bufils, resident of nearby village San Martin Sescorts: (Standing with husband Jordi Galabardes)
"I personally suffer a lot from the lack of water. So now I’m very happy and that’s why we came to see it because it hasn’t been this nice for a long time. I mean, I’m very happy."
4. Aerial of reservoir
5. SOUNDBITE (Catalan) Lydia (no surname given)
“A lot of joy. Very happy. Yes, yes, because it was a shame how it was. We have seen it dry, dry, and it hurt our hearts to see it like that."
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ARCHIVE – Sau reservoir, Vilanova de Sau, Spain – 19 March 2023
6. Dried out reservoir after period of drought ++MUTE++
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Palma de Mallorca – 25 March 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Argüeso, Climate Scientist:
"The fact that the variability is so large is also an obstacle in detecting what’s the contribution of climate change. Because we have these variations from year to year, when we have an extreme is is quite hard to determine what’s it cause of it. So the theory tells us that we should expect more intense extremes in the Mediterranean region. There are various reasons for that, but the main one is that the atmosphere is able to hold more water. And then when we have some storms, they tend to generate more rainfall."
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ARCHIVE: Chiva, Valencia – 3 November 2024
8. Various of destruction along flooded river bank
STORYLINE:
As Spain choked on stubborn drought last year, a reservoir north of Barcelona emptied, revealing a medieval church.
But in the last few weeks, rising waters have again covered the Sant Roma de Sau church as the country’s weather took an abrupt turn.
Drought relief came at a price, as flash floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, closed schools and highways and swept cars away.
While it can be difficult to identify climate change as the cause of a single event, scientists say it is making such swings between dryness and downpour ever more extreme.
The recent floods took place just months after a deadly deluge in Valencia. Here’s a look at the volatile weather that led Spain out of a drought.
In the first 18 days of March, Spain received more than double the rainfall it normally gets in the month, according to Spain’s national weather agency AEMET.
That included in normally arid parts of the country such as the southern Andalusia region where rivers swollen from rainfall prompted authorities to evacuate hundreds of people from their homes.
Madrid got more rain in the first three weeks of March than any month since records began in 1893, said a meteorologist and spokesperson at AEMET.
But weather swings are a fact of life in Spain.
“The blessing and curse of the Spanish climate is exactly that,” said Daniel Argüeso, a climate scientist at Spain’s University of the Balearic Islands.
For now, the drought that began in 2023 is over.
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