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LATEST: What’s happening with deadly Storm Gloria in Spain

At least eight people have died in the storm, which has been branded the worst to hit Spain in three decades.

Published: 22 January 2020 16:33 CET
LATEST: What's happening with deadly Storm Gloria in Spain
The storm was described as the worst to hit Barcelona in 30 years. Photo: AFP

Emergencies services are also trying to locate four missing people, including a young British holidaymaker in Ibiza. 

Catalan’s Interior Minister confirmed that 64 people had been injured in the storm as it finally looked set to ebb on Wednesday afternoon.

Schools across the region remained closed with more than 149,000 students kept at home.

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After four days with red alerts across the eastern part of Spain and the Balearic Islands, the state weather agency lowered the risk to amber and yellow warnings.

The biggest waves ever seen by Spain in the Mediterranean have been recorded during Storm Gloria on the Balearic Islands.

Authorities said they had recorded waves of 14.8 metres in height in Menorca, beating the previous record of 13.6 off the island in 2001.

Footage shows waves breaking over four storey buildings in PortoColom in Mallorca, estimated to have reached the whooping height of 14 metres

Meanwhile on the mainland in Catalonia, authorities warned of an “historic catastrophe” as wetlands in the Ebro delta disappeared under seawater.

Satellite images revealed the extent of the flooding as 320 square hectares of the delta disappeared under water.

The fragile ecosystem containing rice paddies, sand dunes and riverside woodland have suffered severe damage during Storm Gloria as it battered Spain’s east coast for the fourth day.

 

Storm Gloria which is now moving north into France has left disaster in its wake as it swept cross the eastern part of the Peninsula and the Baleric Islands. 

Javea on the Costa Blanca was among the worst affected in the Valencia region.

VIDEO: Watch as Storm Gloria hits Costa Blanca seaside town of Javea in Spain 

 

And in Mallorca's Port de Pollença more than a dozen yachts were washed up on the sand after being ripped from their moorings in the marina.

 

 

 

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WEATHER

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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