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These photographs that we see in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos correspond to the appearance that the Mèder River presented on January 23, 2020, as it passed through the Queralt de Vic bridge, in Osona, in the storm Gloria just 4 years ago. years.
This great storm, also known as Jacob in the United States and Canada, was a long-distance extratropical cyclone in the North Atlantic that affected North America, as well as the Iberian Peninsula as it passed through Europe, between the 20th and 23rd. from January.
Accumulated rainfall of up to 787.7 liters per square meter was recorded in the Vall de Gallinera, in Valencia (Marina Alta), as well as rainfall of between 200 and 500 liters per square meter in the Vallès Oriental, the Girona regions and the Terres de l'Ebre.
Significant snowfalls were also recorded in Aragon. And Gloria caused multiple destruction and incidents in a good part of Spanish territory and caused 13 fatalities.
In Catalonia, a very different situation was experienced at that time from the current drought. This storm affected several rivers that overflowed, such as the Ter, the Fluvià, the Tordera, the Guadalope and the Matarraña.
Several homes had to be evacuated and the citizens of Baix Ter were confined. Other rivers had a flow at the limit of overflowing, as is the case of the Onyar as it passed through the city of Girona.
