"In the timeless week between Christmas and the new year, two Spanish men in their early 50s friends since childhood, popular around town went to a restaurant and did not come home. Francisco Zea Bravo, a maths teacher active in a book club and rock band, and Antonio Morales Serrano, the owner of a popular cafe and ice-cream parlour, had gone to eat with friends in Malaga on Saturday 27 December."
"But since December, these borrasca [low-pressure storms] have come one after the other. The quiet fallout of a broken climate a book club short of one member, a rock band without a bassist, a cafe that lacks a pastry chef has been echoing around western Europe for weeks. The back-to-back storms that battered Spain have killed at least 16 people in neighbouring Portugal."
Two longtime friends from Andalusia drowned when heavy rains turned the Fahala River into an uncontrollable torrent and their van overturned. Back-to-back borrasca storms battered Spain and neighbouring Portugal, causing fatalities and leaving communities grieving. Soils across France reached unprecedented saturation, forecasters issued flood alerts, and parts of the UK recorded unusually prolonged rainy periods. The storms have produced local cultural and economic voids, from missing band members to understaffed cafes. Winter flooding and summer drought now mark European weather extremes, even as voices of climate-change denial have grown louder and more influential.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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