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English: The Province of Cádiz in the south of Spain has been affected by severe weather and heavy rainfall on 6 and 7 March 2021, which reached a volume of 90 litres per square metre in one hour at its peak. Due to the intense rainfall, the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) issued a temporary yellow alert in parts of the province. As the period of severe weather in Cádiz developed, it caused widespread flooding, which prompted the Spanish Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Emergencies to issue an orange alert in the area around the Strait of Gibraltar, the worst affected region. The overflow of the river Jara led to emergency calls in the municipality of Tarifa while the town of Los Barrios, more than thirty families evacuated from their homes. Data supplied by the radar instruments of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites allow for the monitoring and mapping of regions affected by flooding by piercing through the cloud cover and providing data that may not be available to optical satellites. This image, acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite on 7 March 2021 at 06:27 UTC, shows the flooded areas near Tarifa and in Los Barrios.