Spain hit by deadliest floods in decades. Here’s what we know
Oct 31, 2024 · This week’s floods are the most deadly Spain has suffered in decades. In 1959, 144 people were killed by a flood in the Spanish town of Ribadelago. However, that disaster was caused by the ...
Satellite images show the devastation from Spain's deadly floods
Oct 31, 2024 · Climate scientists and meteorologists say the immediate cause of the flooding in Spain is a DANA, a cut-off lower pressure storm system that migrated from an unusually wavy and stalled jet stream. People shovel up mud after floods in Catarroja on the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024.
More than 200 killed in Valencia floods as torrential rain hits ... - BBC
Nov 1, 2024 · More than 200 killed in deadly floods in Spain. Spain has suffered its worst flooding disaster in recent history, with the area around the coastal city of Valencia particularly badly impacted. At ...
Flash Floods in Spain Kill at Least 205: What to Know - The New …
Oct 30, 2024 · Flash floods have killed at least 205 people across eastern Spain, according to the Spanish authorities, after a deluge of rain — in some places, several months’ worth — fell in less than a...
Spain's worst floods in a century hit Valencia region, killing at …
Oct 31, 2024 · Roads transformed into raging rivers with little warning as flash floods tore through the eastern region of Valencia, with muddy rapids flinging parked cars around like tin cans in …
Spain's flood nightmare continues as heavy rain hits Barcelona ...
4 days ago · Updated on: November 4, 2024 / 6:55 AM EST / CBS/AP. Barcelona, Spain — The recurrent storms in eastern Spain that led to massive flooding last week and killed at least 217 people, almost all of ...
'Extreme danger' red alert for Barcelona warns of more rain on the …
4 days ago · Severe flooding has hit Barcelona, with a red alert warning of "extreme danger" from torrential rain issued. Mobile phones received a message forecasting "extreme and continued rainfall" on the ...
Spain floods latest: King Charles 'utterly heartbroken' as deaths …
Oct 30, 2024 · Key points. More than 200 people killed as eastern Spain hit by flash floods. King and Queen 'utterly heartbroken' by loss of life. Flooding has exposed 'criminal negligence', regional MP says ...
Spain issues rare 'red alert' with Menorca, Majorca, Ibiza impacted
Nov 1, 2024 · Spain issues rare 'red alert' with Menorca, Majorca, Ibiza impacted. ... churned through muddy streets and cleared debris on Monday as Spain braced for more deaths from its worst floods in decades."They were saying 'alert for water', but they should have said it was a flood," Teresa Gisbert, 62, told AFP in the destroyed town of Sedavi, saying ...
Ibiza is suffering traffic jams, flooding, and overflowing sewers as …
Oct 23, 2021 · The storm, which began in the early hours of yesterday and continued throughout the day, produced many flooding incidents, saturated the city of Ibiza‘s sewer system, caused traffic jams and road closures, and generated chaos in several regions of the island.