This week's rainy and stormy season continues to leave damage and incidents in the Valencian Community. On Tuesday it was the thermal burst that brought with it torrential rains and strong gusts of wind mainly in Burriana and Vila-real; and this morning the torrential rains have flooded the La Ribera region, with two towns, Algemesí and Albalat de la Ribera, forced to suspend classes for today.
The rainfall has caused, among other incidents, the flooding of the underpass of the Algemesí Cercanías train station, on line C2, which has forced travelers from València Nord to Algemesí to transfer to another train on the Alzira station, while the trains originating in Xativa and arriving at València Nord have been able to circulate normally. However, at this time the incident has been resolved and the trains are now running normally at this step.
According to the State Meteorological Agency in the Valencian Community (AEMET), the rainfall has been of "torrential intensity" between 4 and 6 in the morning in La Ribera, between Algemesí, Albalat de la Ribera, Polinyà and Sueca, with accumulated between 150 and 200 l/m2, of which between 80 and 90 liters have fallen in less than an hour.
In Algemesí last night 200 liters per square meter fell and the City Council has reported in a statement that, despite the fact that the torrential rains have ended this morning, it has been decided to suspend educational activity due to the "difficult situation" in which They find the areas of the educational centers and their surroundings due to the accumulation of water, as well as other areas of the town.
Likewise, the Valencian municipality of Albalat de La Ribera has also decided to suspend classes this Thursday. In addition, it has reported on its social networks that it closes parks and gardens, as well as the municipal cemetery, the sports center, the library and the day center during this day and asks for "extreme precautions."
At the moment, it is not raining anywhere in the Valencian Community and, in general, there is little cloud cover, says the AEMET, which has ended the red warning although it leaves the yellow warning activated until noon on the coast of Valencia, Castellón and the north of Alicante.
The rains have also left negative effects in the Valencian countryside. The Unió Llauradora i Ramadera assured yesterday that the wind and hail on Tuesday affected a radius of more than 18,000 hectares of crops and estimates the losses, "in a first emergency evaluation", at more than 8.6 million euros.
For its part, although Ava-Asaja did not put a figure on this matter, it does observe a 100% impact on persimmon fields in Quatretonda and negative effects on citrus, avocados, vineyards, almonds and olive groves due to blows to the fruit that depreciate its value. commercial, generate defoliation of trees and even the uprooting of young seedlings. The water also caused damage to rural roads, walls and other infrastructure. The most affected municipal areas were Burriana, Betxí, Nules and La Vilavella.
