After an exceptional warm summer and exceptional high seawater temperatures, the chances of one or more extreme weather events were very high. It was more a matter of 'where and when' than of 'if'.

And yes, it happened this weekend (17-18 October 2026) and quite close to where I live.

I have created a KNIME workflow to load the rainfall data from AEMET, the Spanish meterorological service:

Below is a report of the stations with the most rainfall recorded. 

I incorporated data until Sunday, 18 October. Notice the 620.6mm value in 24 hours in Pego, Alicante. Values between 150 and 200 mm are considered 'Torrential rain' Red Alert values.

For comparison, the maximum value recorded in the October 2024 DANA was 710.8mm at the Turis (Valencia) weather station see here