Embalse de Búbal water level

What this means

Embalse de Búbal is below normal for mid-October, with the fill level at 7.9 % full.

That puts it 4.6 pts below the median of 12.5 % for mid-October, based on 39 years of readings. A year ago it stood at 4.8 % (+3.2 pts).

It has risen 3.2 pts over the past week. In the last month it has stayed between 4.8 % and 7.9 %.

Many reservoirs reach their low point of the year in autumn, before winter rains start the refill.

Compared with 39 years of daily readings for this time of year. How to read levels

Key numbers

Median for this date

12.5 %4.6 pts below the median for this date

Normal for this date

4.8 % – 50.0 %8 years in 10 fall in this range (39 years of records)

Same day last year

4.8 %+3.2 pts

Lowest and highest in 30 days

4.8 % – 7.9 %

Lowest and highest in 12 months

4.8 % – 92.1 %

Capacity

63.0 hm³7.9 % of capacity