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Hundreds flee floods at music festival campsite

Around a thousand people camping at the Arenal Sound festival on Spain’s eastern coast had to be evacuated from the site in the early hours of Friday morning after heavy rains caused major flooding.

Published: 31 July 2015 10:52 CEST
Hundreds flee floods at music festival campsite
Archive photo of a flooded tent. Photo: Paul Holloway/Flickr

While many Spaniards were welcoming a drop in temperatures across the country this week, revellers at the Arenal music festival in Castellón were definitely not.

Between 800 and 1,000 attendees were forced to evacuate the festival campsite after heavy rain caused huge floods, with many taking to social media to upload photographs of the water flowing through their tents.

The festival, which takes place on Burriana beach in the eastern Spanish region of Castellón, started on Tuesday and continues until Sunday, August 2nd. It features acts such as La Roux, The Hives and The Kooks.

According to sources from the local fire brigade quoted in Spanish daily La Vanguardia, at around 3.30am on Friday morning several buses moved the campers to temporary accommodation in the town’s Casa de Cultura when much of the camp site was left underwater after heavy flooding.

Firefighters are currently working to pump out water from the area where the festival is taking place. The festival’s schedule had to be suspended on Thursday due to heavy rain. 

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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.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
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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