3 Sep, 2023 @ 01:55
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WATCH: Streets turned into rivers in Spain as ‘extraordinary’ Gota Fria brings ‘extreme’ rainfall – with the worst yet to come

STREETS were turned into rivers in central Spain on Saturday as the dreaded Gota Fria brought the first installment of heavy rain.

Video footage shared from Arganda del Rey in Madrid showed roads flooding with water as cars struggled to make their way through.

It came just hours before Madrid and Toledo were placed on red alert by Spanish weather agency AEMET.

Both regions are set to see the worst rainfall from 12pm on Sunday in what has been branded an ‘historic’ weather event.

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An area of high depression, known as DANA, is bringing extreme weather across the country.

The Costa del Sol in Malaga is on a yellow alert for rain and thunderstorms for much of Sunday.

Meanwhile in the east, Alicante, Murcia and parts of Granada are on orange alert.

The Balearics are also set to be hit hard with Ibiza placed on orange alert also.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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