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Valencia floods: warming climate is making once rare weather more common and more destructive, researchers say

In recent days, a seasonal weather system known in Spain as a “cold drop” or DANA (an acronym for “depresión aislada en niveles altos”: isolated cyclone at high level) has been causing heavy rain and flooding across Spain’s Mediterranean coast. causing flooding in Andalusia, especially in the Valencia region, Castile-La Mancha and the Balearic Islands. The storm left hundreds of…