Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the country’s deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite images from NASA and the European Space Agency show the extent of flooding around the coastal region of Valencia.
In Valencia, a year’s worth of rainfall fell in just eight hours, with floods destroying buildings, disrupting trains and causing more than
An analysis by World Weather Attribution found that climate change was “the most likely explanation” for the unusually heavy downpour. Due to warming, rainfall has become twelve percent heavier. A separate analysis from Climate Central showed that unusually warm ocean waters fueled the storm, and that excess ocean heat was made at least 50 times more likely by climate change.
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