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The weather is crazy. A popular phrase that is increasingly on everyone's lips in times of climate change and drought. In Catalonia, the swamps are like the thermometer that marks the temperature of the climate of each season of the year.
This fall the phenomena are accentuated. The Sau reservoir is at 19% and dawns covered with thick fog, seen from the cliffs of Tavertet, as we can see in these images in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
In some areas, the fog, Pubilla, is also known as “baixa joke”. Basically, it's when the fog comes down and covers everything. It must be taken into account that the Osona region is the place in Spain with the most days of fog, a hundred a year.
In the images we can see how the church of Sant Romà de Sau is being covered by fog. Tavertet is located within the Guilleries area. El Morro de l'Abella, for example, is a viewpoint with fantastic views of the Sau swamp.
In another reservoir, the Baells, in Berguedà, the landscape has a different look. The drought is evident, cracking even the ground, as seen in the images.
The water reserves in the internal basins of the swamps of Catalonia are at 19%, while the Baells reservoir is at 24%, when the average for the last five years is 77%.
The signs of drought are evident in the landscape of this reservoir, whose objective is to regulate the upper basin of the Llobregat River, supply water to the metropolitan area of Barcelona and produce hydroelectric energy.
The drought also makes the marks of the lack of water clearly visible on the banks of the reservoir and on the bridge that crosses it. It is also noticeable in the cracked earth, previously flooded with water, but now completely dry.
Currently, ruins of old houses from one of the three towns that were submerged are visible: Miralles, Baells and Sant Salvador de la Vedella.
