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Spain battered by weekend storms and floods and there’s more to come

Spain’s weather agency continued to issue severe weather warnings on Monday as storms bringing torrential rain and flood risk swept across Spain.

Published: 19 November 2018 12:40 CET
Spain battered by weekend storms and floods and there’s more to come
File photo: AFP

Even as Alicante and Valencia were braced for torrential rain, a clean-up operation was underway in Andalusia after a weekend of stormy weather caused flooding, blocked roads and closed schools.

The province of Malaga had been braced for severe weather and suffered thunder storms and dramatic images capture the moment an apartment building in Malaga was struck by lightning. 

Meanwhile along the coast in Marbella, lightning strike caused a fire to break out at a hotel forcing evacuation of staff and guests.

Images show towns along the Costa del Sol being lashed by high winds, huge waves and torrential rain. In many places schools remained closed on Monday and several roads were blocked due to flooding. This is the view of a motorway blocked in Huelva by flood water:

This footage from emergency services in Estepona shows the fierce wind:

 

 

 

 

Further north in Galicia, a 75-year-old woman drowned as flood water engulfed her home in Lugo, in the northwestern region on Sunday afternoon. 

In the Canary Islands, storms caused high seas forcing several buildings to be evacuated after they were battered by giant waves.

Residents were forced to evacuate apartments in Garachico in Tenerife after 40ft waves smashed windows and ripped off balconies on the lower two floors of a building on the sea front.

On Monday, 17 provinces were issued with weather alerts by Spain’s Meteorological agency, AEMET.

Valencia and Alicante were issued with the most extreme red alert in the expectation of torrential rain and high flood risk and schools across both provinces were closed.

The lesser orange alerts – representing significant risk –  were issued for the Balearic Islands for rain, which the lower risk yellow alerts were put in place for  Ávila, Tarragona, Madrid and Castellón provinces.

 

 

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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