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VIDEO: Watch as seafoam fills streets of Costa Brava resort during Storm Gloria

The seaside town of Tossa del Mar on the Mediterranean coast north of Barcelona experienced a rare weather phenomenon on Tuesday as Storm Gloria hit the Catalan region.

Published: 22 January 2020 10:44 CET
VIDEO: Watch as seafoam fills streets of Costa Brava resort during Storm Gloria
The streets of Tossa de Mar filled with foam. Photo: AFP

The streets filled with seafoam, a natural but rare occurrence caused by the severe agitation of sea water and is completely harmless.

High winds and rough seas have caused devastation along Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast, destroying seafront promenades and damaging buildings along them.

According to the Catalan Water Agency the foam occurs when seawater meets fresh water from a stream. The mixture stirred up by the pounding waves, plus the load of organic material in both waters, generates this abundant foam.

Here are a selection of the best images shared of the foam phenomenon in Tossa de Mar.

The foam appeared to be waist-high in some parts of the town.

 

Here's a close up:

 

Another view of wobbling foam.

And the clear-up operation in progress. 

 

 

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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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