India, Feb. 26 -- An unprecedented nine named storms brought torrents of rainfall along with swift winds to the western Mediterranean region, especially Spain, Portugal and Morocco between January 16 and February 17, 2026. The rainfall was as high as a year's worth of downpours in a matter of days in some parts of Spain.

Observational analysis of the most extreme rainfall over the most affected regions by a group of scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium showed that warming made the rainfall more intense, but climate models did not recreate the trend, showing gaps in their efficacy.

WWA, a global network of climate scientists, conducts 'attribution studies' to understand and quantify the role of human-induced cli...