What to know about the unprecedented floods that killed more than 200 in Spain

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MADRID -- In a matter of minutes, flash flood s caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shattered.Four days later, authorities have recovered 213 bodies — most of them in the eastern Valencia region. They continued to search for an unknown number of missing people Saturday.

It had its warmest surface temperature on record in mid-August, at 28.47 degrees Celsius , said Carola Koenig of the Centre for Flood Risk and Resilience at Brunel University of London.The extreme weather event came after Spain battled with prolonged droughts in 2022 and 2023. Experts say that drought and flood cycles are increasing with climate change.

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