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Alicante airport closed amid safety issues as storm hits eastern Spain

Alicante airport will remain closed all day Monday as Spain is battered by Storm Gloria.

Published: 20 January 2020 13:35 CET
Alicante airport closed amid safety issues as storm hits eastern Spain

Dozens of flights were cancelled and rerouted through other airports as the province was put on red alert for strong winds and torrential rain.

 

Thousands of passengers were told to check their status of their flights as AENA confirmed that 179 flights were affected by the airport closure.

A fire that broke out on the terminal roof at the airport last Wednesday added to security fears in the high winds which hit the region on Sunday and were expected to continue throughout Monday. 

High winds brought in big waves and caused damage to sea front resorts across the coast of Valencia while in the interior, roads were closed by heavy snow.

IN PICS: Nine provinces on red alert as Storm Gloria sweeps across Spain

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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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