Europe / Spain · Environment

Heavy rain and flooding in Barcelona leave at least two dead

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 29h ago
Final
Outlets: 54
Regions: 5
Countries: 31
Languages: 18

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Blick, 2 Oct, 20:11 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Clarín.
Second region: Americas, with Clarín.
Fastest hour: +16 outlets from 4 Oct, 09:17 UTC.
Last article: 54 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 31 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

78%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Americas 5 outlets · 4 countries · 9%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Europe 42 outlets · 21 countries · 78%
Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 9%

First movers

Blick 2 Oct, 20:11 UTC
Clarín +7h 57m
Al Jazeera +12h 6m
NU.nl +12h 31m
Público +15h 4m

Last to join

Delfi (LV) 4 Oct, 16:53 UTC
G4Media 4 Oct, 16:38 UTC
Perfil 4 Oct, 15:52 UTC
Asharq News 4 Oct, 14:47 UTC
VG 4 Oct, 14:02 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Heavy rainfall and flooding hit Barcelona and Catalonia, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 54 outlets in 31 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 54 outlets, 3 state-owned, 9 public-service, 42 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Morocco. Americas 4: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru. Asia-Pacific 1: Pakistan. Europe 21: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish.
Timeline: Earliest article Blick, 2 Oct 2026, 20:11 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 17:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, Spain. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.09, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Heavy rainfall and flooding hit Barcelona and Catalonia. Continued by Video | Water sleurt auto's mee in Catalonië, bewoners ruimen ravage op; Ulewy w Hiszpanii. Tak wygląda teraz część kraju. Nagrania; Extreme rainfall causes flooding and deaths in Catalonia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

3 Oct 2026 96 8.59 9 8 8 7 4.0

4 Oct 2026 7 23.11 54 31 50 29 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 20:20 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 17:00 UTC

Covered by 54 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

Hespress Morocco 4 Oct, 11:27 UTC
Heavy storms flood Catalonia as firefighters receive 1,000 calls

Americas 5 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
3 Oct 2026	96	8.59	9	8	8	7	4.0
4 Oct 2026	7	23.11	54	31	50	29	4.1

Covered by 54 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 42 outlets

Middle East 5 outlets