Pigeons Found Dead After Tarragona Storm
- Around 100 pigeons were found dead at the Port of Tarragona after a violent storm struck south-western Catalonia on Monday afternoon.
- Heavy rain and hail from the storm flooded several avenues in Tarragona city, as documented in footage shared by Civil Protection.
- The precise cause of the mass pigeon deaths was not immediately confirmed, though the storm was identified as the primary factor.
Around a hundred pigeons were found dead at the Port of Tarragona on Monday afternoon after a violent storm swept through the south-west of Catalonia, bringing heavy rain and hail that left parts of the city under water.
Storm strikes south-west Catalonia
The severe weather bore down on Tarragona with particular force, with torrential downpours inundating several of the city's main avenues. Footage released by Civil Protection and widely circulated on social media documented the scale of the flooding across the city centre. The storm formed part of a wider pattern of intense weather affecting the region, with a severe hailstorm having already flooded streets across Tarragona province and torrential rains trapping families along Spain's Costa Daurada in recent days.
Mass pigeon deaths at the port
Approximately a hundred pigeons were discovered dead at the port in the aftermath of the storm. The precise cause of death — whether from the force of the hail, the intensity of the rain, or a combination of the two — was not immediately confirmed. The storm was cited as the primary factor behind the deaths.
The simultaneous flooding of urban streets and the loss of wildlife at the port illustrate the breadth of disruption inflicted by an increasingly volatile summer weather pattern across the Catalan coast.
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