List of cold drop events

This list of cold drop events chronologically compiles the heavy rainfall events caused by cold drops (Spanish: Gota Fría) that have resulted in serious flooding.

In Spain, cold drops often cause intense rainfall and are created by the interaction of upper-level low pressure systems strangled and ultimately detached from the zonal (eastward) circulation displaying stationary or retrograde (westward) circulation with humid and warmer air masses provided by an overheated Mediterranean in the Autumn.

[1] Spanish meteorologists also call this phenomenon Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos or DANA (English: “Isolated Depression at High Levels”).

[1] Flooding also occurred throughout the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca and Andratx).

Satellite image of clouds in cyclone form over the Iberian peninsula
NASA Worldview imaging of a cold drop over the west of the Iberian Peninsula in September 2023