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Spain is bracing itself for yet more heavy rain, this time concentrated on the very southwest of the country, as other areas are still reeling from the devastating floods which killed at least 223 people last month.
The Spanish state weather agency Aemet has warned that a “surface cyclogenesis”, or cyclone, will arrive on Wednesday, November 13.
The phenomenon is set to bring “intense rains” to the Mediterranean coast of Spain, including the two popular holiday destinations of the Campo de Gibraltar and Costa del Sol.
This Andalusian region includes the coastal settlements of Malaga and Marbella, which are world-renowned tourist destinations.
The new warning comes as a weather alert for the region was upgraded to orange on Monday afternoon by Aemet. It states that heavy rainfall on Wednesday, up to 100mm/m2 falling over a 12-hour period, will significantly risk life.
The probability of rain in the region has been declared to be “very high” between Wednesday and Friday, with a chance that the weather will improve by the weekend.
A report from Aemet reads: “Significant weather change in Andalucia from Wednesday due to the lowering of a high-altitude depression that will gradually move until it is located in the southwest of the peninsula. A surface cyclogenesis will form…
“On Wednesday, the precipitations will be locally intense and accompanied by storms in some areas of the Alboran coast and pre-coast, as indicated with some discrepancy by the HRES-IFS and Harmonie-Arome models.”
The Axarquia region has also been placed on Malaga's orange warning, upgraded from a yellow alert.
The warning is in place from 3am on Wednesday until 11.59pm, indicating almost 24 hours of heavy rainfall.
It comes as yet another DANA is set to roll into Spain from the northern half of its territory this week. The high area of isolated depression is expected to bring heavy rainfall to Valencia and Malaga – the former of which is still reeling from the last deadly DANA storm, which killed more than 200 people.
According to El Tiempo, the weather phenomenon will arrive from France to the northeast of the peninsula from Tuesday.
The hardest-hit areas will be between Cataluña, the Balearic Islands, and the northern half of the Valencia region.
El Tiempo added: “Strong accumulations are also expected in the south along the Mediterranean coast of Andalucia, although also in areas of the Ebro valley and the eastern Cantabrian Sea…
“With the entry of the DANA from the northeast, the entry of colder air is also expected from Tuesday, which will mean that we will see some capitals reaching maximum temperatures in the single digits.
“With the drop in temperature, we will also see good accumulation in some mountain areas since the snow level will be around 1,000 meters both in the north and in areas of the centre of the peninsula.”
On Tuesday, Castellon in Valencia and Tarragona and Barcelona in Cataluña are on a yellow-level warning for rain, with up to 20mm falling per square metre per hour. Meanwhile, the whole of Ibiza and parts of Majorca, including Palma, will be on a more serious orange alert, with up to 40mm/m2 of rain in an hour.
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