The Flood of 1940 (in French and Catalan "aiguat de 1940") was a Mediterranean episode of extreme rainfall in October 1940 over the uplands of the eastern Pyrenees. It caused devastating floods in the French departments of Pyrénées-Orientales and Aude as well as in Catalonia in Spain.
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