17 Mar, 2025 @ 11:52
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Spanish holiday islands are placed on orange weather alert due to Storm Laurence

STORM Laurence has forced popular Spanish holiday islands to issue orange weather alerts. 

The Canary Islands have issued orange and yellow weather alerts as waves reaching up six metres batter the coastline. 

La Palma, northern Tenerife, El Hierro, northern Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura each have orange alerts in effect. 

In La Palma, the warnings are in place from 1pm today and will remain until midnight. 

Meanwhile in Tenerife, the orange warnings come into force at 3pm today and end tomorrow at 3am. 

In El Hierro, they begin at 5pm today and continue until midnight. 

For Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, the alerts start today at 6pm and will remain in force until 3am tomorrow. 

Yellow ‘low risk’ alerts are also in place in eastern and western La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and El Hierro as well as the north of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. 

Spain’s meteorological service, AEMET, warned of waves of up to five metres.

Yzabelle Bostyn

Yzabelle Bostyn is an NCTJ trained journalist who started her journalistic career at the Olive Press in 2023.
Before moving to Spain, she studied for a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating she moved to the university’s journalism department, one of the best in the UK.
Throughout the past few years, she has taken on many roles including social media marketing, copywriting and radio presenting.
She then took a year out to travel Latin America, scaling volcanoes in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize.
Then, she came to the Olive Press last year where she has honed her travel writing skills and reported on many fantastic experiences such as the Al Andalus luxury train.
She has also undertaken many investigations, looking into complex issues like Spain’s rental crisis and rising cancer rates.
Always willing to help, she has exposed many frauds and scams, working alongside victims to achieve justice.
She is most proud of her work on Nolotil, a drug linked to the deaths of many Brits in Spain.
A campaign launched by Yzabelle has received considerable support and her coverage has been by the UK and Spanish media alike.
Her writing has featured on many UK news outlets from the Sun to the Mail Online, who contracted her to report for them in Tenerife on growing tourism issues.
Recently, she has appeared on Times Radio covering deadly flooding in Valencia.

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