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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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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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