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Spain clocks up wettest March on record

Spain notched up its rainiest March on record last month and the high water levels of many of the country's rivers are continuing to cause problems around the country.

Spain clocks up wettest March on record
Rivers all over Spain have broken their banks in recent weeks. Photo: Mike Young
Forecasters are predicting less rain on Tuesday but the high water level of many of Spain's rivers is continuing to cause serious problems.
 
The current situation is most difficult along the River Duero, especially where it passes through the provinces of Zamora and Valladolid.
 
In Castilla-Leon, water levels should be more or less stable in the next few days, according to José Valín of the Hydrological Confederation of the Duero.
 
"This depends on rainfall over the course of this week," Valín was cited as saying by national broadcaster RTVE.
 
A travel advisory issued on Monday warned of flooding affecting nearly all of Spain's river basins.
 
Also on Monday, a motorist and a truck driver died when a bridge collapsed in central Spain following torrential rains, regional officials said.

 
The collapse in Fuencaliente, northeast of Cordoba in  Castile-La Mancha province, caused a car and a truck to plunge into the Yeguas River, they said.
 
The driver of the car was aged 23, the officials said, without stating the age of the truck driver.
 
On Saturday, a cyclist died near the Colemenar in Madrid's sierra.
 
Authorities say that he probably drowned when he attempted to cross a swollen stream on his bicycle. 
 
In the Sierra de Alcaraz in Albacete, meanwhile, 25 people were stranded at a campground because of a rising Mundo River which blocked the only access to the facility.

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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