The Béatrice storm leaves hundreds of incidents in the northern half of the peninsula

More than 300 incidents in Galicia, at least one injured in Pontevedra due to a fallen tree, and another in Bizkaia are part of the impact of the Béatrice storm, which hits the country with wind, rain and 8-meter waves. week to the Peninsula of the intense Béatrice storm, the second of the season, just after Armand, has put twelve communities in the north and the northwestern half of the country under weather alert this Sunday due to winds of more than 110 kilometers per hour and heavy rainfall. In addition to Galicia, in orange, due to rains with accumulations of more than 40 liters per square meter, along with strong winds and maritime storms, four other regions are under warning with the same level of risk due to one or more of the above circumstances .These are Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, and La Rioja, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) on its website. To these are added, although in yellow, with a slightly lower risk, seven other communities on alert: Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Madrid, Navarra and the Basque Country. In the last few hours, according to data from the Aemet , very strong gusts have been recorded in various parts of the north of the country, up to 132 kilometers and 131 kilometers per hour at the Valdezcaray station (La Rioja) and Cap de Vaquèira (Lleida), respectively, and 76 kilometers per hour at the Vitoria airport, among others. Regarding rainfall, the accumulations in Galicia stand out: for example, 69 liters per square meter at the O Rosal station (Pontevedra), 50.6 liters in the municipality of Rois or the 43.3 liters per square meter in Santiago de Compostela, both in A Coruña. In the Galician community, the 112 has registered 331 incidents, and one person has been injured when a tree fell on the car in which he was driving in Mondariz (Pontevedra ), which also caused the cut e of the road during assistance by the emergency services. The Biscayan region of Encartaciones is the area most affected in the Basque Country by the strong gusts of wind that blow and have caused trees and branches to fall on different roads in Bizkaia -also in areas of Gipuzkoa-. One of the most notable incidents has occurred in Zalla, in the same region of Biscay, where, due to strong wind, a tree has fallen on the BI-630 road onto a vehicle with occupants inside , who have not been injured. In Barakaldo, a man was injured when he was hit by a container that had been displaced by the wind on Anaitasuna street in the Biscayan town, for which he had to be transferred to the Cruces hospital. On the other hand, nine flights have had to be diverted at the Bilbao airport due to the strong wind; two of them, coming from Madrid with a scheduled landing in Bilbao, have returned to their starting point, and three from Palma, London and Bristol, among others, have been diverted to Barcelona airport. Likewise, gusts of wind have prevented the flight on which the 2022 Princess of Letters Award, the playwright Juan Mayorga, was traveling, arrived in Asturias and has been forced to return to Madrid, his starting point. Mayorga was the first winner of one of the eight Princess Awards, which will be delivered in Oviedo next Friday under the presidency of the king and queen and in the presence of Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía. But not only the north is being hit by the storm; In the case of Madrid, the intense rains will accumulate, according to the predictions of the Aemet, up to 40 liters in twelve hours in the mountains, and the wind will blow with intensity of up to 80 kilometers per hour, especially in the summits. In Aragón also winds are expected to exceed 100 kilometers per hour, and also in Cantabria, up to 110 kilometers per hour, mainly at high altitudes in the center and in the Villaverde valley. In Castilla y León, the winds will blow very strongly in the Burgos mountain range and can reach up to 110 kilometers per hour; rainfall will accumulate up to 40 liters per square meter in twelve hours in the central system of Ávila and Salamanca. In Castilla-La Mancha the rains will accumulate up to 40 liters per square meter in Toledo and gusts will reach up to 80 kilometers per hour in areas such as Parameras de Molina (Guadalajara).