18 Jan, 2023 @ 11:52
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Spain battered by first winter storms of 2023 which are due to last until Friday

The Storms Fien And Gerard Across Spain
Ampuero, SPAIN: The Asón River as it passes through Ampuero low with enough flow during the Fien and Gerard storms cross Spain in Ampuero, Spain on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Alberto Brevers / Pacific Press)

SWATHES of Spain have battened down the hatches as storms Fien and Gerard has swept the country bringing strong winds, heavy snow, rain and rough seas.

One man is known to have died. The 80-year-old vanished during the storm on Monday night. His body was found in the port of Basque town Bermeo.

A bus full of children trapped by floods in nearby Sondika had to be rescued by emergency services.

Fien has brought an air mass from the arctic and temperatures have plunged, with the storm set to continue until Friday, according to meteorological service Aemet. 

The worst of the weather has been in northern Spain, where several regions have activated emergency plans to deal with potential flooding as rivers threaten to burst their banks.

Regions in northern Spain are beginning to activate flood protocols as rivers near capacity. In the rest of the country, warnings have been issued about strong winds that could hit 100kph.

Many coastal areas are also on alert for rough seas, with waves of up to nine metres predicted in Galicia.

Gerard has hit the East coast of the country, bringing more rain and strong winds.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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