The heavy rains that fell early in the morning in a storm in Madrid have caused ponds on some roads and metro cuts at the beginning of the service of some lines that around 8:00 had already been able to recover the service normally.
From 5 in the morning to 8, firefighters from the Madrid City Council have carried out around 50 interventions in the capital. Most of them due to pools of water, tree branches that have fallen or are at risk of falling onto public roads and damage to interiors, according to Emergencies Madrid. The DGT warned of problems on roads early in the morning, due to the existence of pools of water on some roads:
For its part, Metro de Madrid responded to doubts from travelers about cuts in the service from its social networks early this morning - it reported cuts due to "technical causes" - and after 8:00 the affected sections of lines 7 and 9 They were already functioning normally again.
A traveler at the airport showed on her social networks the leaks caused by the heavy rains:
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) had activated the yellow warning for this Friday (the lowest level on a scale of three) due to the risk of rain of up to 20 liters per square meter in one hour throughout the region, which will be operational between eight in the afternoon on Thursday and ten in the morning on Friday in the mountains, in the Metropolitan area and Henares; and from two in the afternoon on Thursday to ten in the morning on Friday in South, Vegas and West.
Likewise, there is a yellow warning due to the risk of storms throughout the region. The minimum temperatures will not experience significant changes and the maximum temperatures will register a decrease. The thermometers will drop at night to around 15 degrees Celsius (ºC) and the maximum temperatures will not exceed 26 ºC.
