Floods impact Barcelona as MotoGP considers Valencia replacement
A re✅d alert warning for rain ဣhas been issued for Barcelona.

Barcelona has been hit with red weath𝔍er warnings as flooding impacts the city, with M📖otoGP set to head there in two weeks to close the 2024 season.
The Catalan city has been hit by flooding th🐠is morning (Monday 4 November), and a red alert warning of ‘Extreme Danger’ has been issued.
AEMET (Spain’s state meteorological agency), has warned that Baix Llobregat, around 23 miles from the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya🌊, could experience as much as 180l/m² of water in the space of 24 hours.
⚠️ AVISO ROJO | Litoral de Barcelona.
— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp)
Peligro extremo por lluvias torrenciales: un chubasco muy intenso ha dejado81 l/m² en el aeropuerto de El Prat.
En el Baix Llobregat pueden acumularse más de 180 l/m² en 24 horas ¡Mucha precaución! ¡No viaje si no ꦺes estrictamente ne♍cesario!
Social media footage shows the scale of the flooding, wi𝔉th some motorways in the region being completely flooded.
Així és troba l’autovia direcció Castelldefels 🚨
— Projecte 4 Estacions (@P4Estacions)
Carretera sapultada d’aigua ⛈️ i el trànsit aturar ⚠️
Minimitzem els desplaçaments 🙏🏼
MotoGP announced plans on Saturday to hold its final round of 2024 at🦂 the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, located just northeast of Barcelona city centre, although the date and details of the race were, and are, still to be finalised.
The series was forc🅠ed to cancel its usual season-ending Valencian Grand Prix due to the severe flooding that took place there early last week which caused significant infrastructural damaℱge and loss of life.
The plans to move the 20th and final round of the 2024 Wo🍰rld Championship to Barcelona were announced on Saturday, when MotoGP wa༺s racing in Malaysia.
On Saturday evening in Spain, AEMET issues warnings of severe storms again in Valencia, but also Catalunya expected for S💟unday.
⚠️Tormentas muy fuertes en el Mediterráneo este domingo: activamos avisos naranjas en zonas de la Región de Murcia, Cataluña y Comunitat Valenciana.
— AEMET (@AEMET_Esp)
Podrían acumularse más de 100 a 150 l/m² en áreas ya afectadas por las inundaciones𓆉 del día 29. ¡Precauc🍃ión!
MotoGP ha🌞s not yet made any official communication regarding the floods in Barce🌸lona.

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