29 Jan, 2025 @ 17:11
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Red weather alerts are issued for Spain amid Storm Ivo – while Andalucia is warned of heavy snow

A SERIES of red weather alerts have been issued for parts of northern Spain tomorrow due to rough seas.

The warning by AEMET is in place across the whole coastline of A Coruña, the Basque Country and parts of Galicia.

The advisory warns there will be an ‘extreme risk’ to life in these areas from midnight tonight until 6pm tomorrow.

The severe sea conditions are being caused by strong winds brought in by Storm Ivo, one of four storms to hit the European continent this week.

Dozens of towns and cities across Spain have been placed on alert on Thursday.

Guadix and Baza in Granada, for example, is on a yellow warning for snow for the entirety of tomorrow, with AEMET predicting 2cm of the white stuff.

Snow warnings are also in place in Sierra Nevada and the Alpujarras, where up to 5cm could fall.

Meanwhile, the majority of Almeria province is on a yellow alert for winds that could reach up to 70km/hr.

The Costa Blanca and the Balearic Islands are among the few areas to have avoided any weather alerts from AEMET.

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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