23 Oct, 2024 @ 13:20
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Watch: Heavens open above eastern Spain as tourists say they’ve ‘never seen weather like it’ – with areas seeing a year’s worth of rain in 12 hours

RAIN continues to batter eastern Spain today with some areas seeing more rain in 12 hours than the past 12 months.

It comes as much of southern Valencia province remains on an orange alert – the second most severe – for rainfall.

The alert was issued for midnight last night and will end at 3pm on Wednesday.

It warned that up to 100m of rain could fall per square metre over a period of 12 hours.

In towns like Alzira, more rain his fallen in the past 12 hours than the past year, according to local reports.

One British tourist shared a grey and rainy picture of Albir on the Costa Blanca, writing: “In the 21 years I have been visiting Albir, I have never known weather like this!”

The rain is expected to disappear by Thursday before returning once again by Saturday, when a dreaded DANA is expected to roll in.

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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