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Spain remains on amber alert for rain as weather update issued
by Liv Clarke · Manchester Evening NewsAreas in Spain including Seville and Valencia remain under amber warnings for heavy rainfall on Thursday after floods swept through Malaga on Tuesday. Aemet, the country’s weather agency, has warned of “locally very heavy or persistent” rainfall in western Andalusia and along the eastern coast.
It comes after more than 4,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the Costal de Sol region as a precautionary measure on Tuesday. The area was placed under a red alert for more rain by Aemet, but this has since been downgraded, however showers are still forecast in the area.
Aemet announced the update on X: “Red warnings have been deactivated in the provinces of Malaga and Valencia. Orange warnings (significant danger) remain active due to very heavy rain in areas of the provinces of Huelva, Cadiz, Seville, Alicante and Valencia.”
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The weather conditions are the result of a Dana, a meteorological phenomena where warm and cold air masses collide at high altitude. Aemet warned that the Dana will “affect almost the entire country” on Thursday, November 14, with precipitation expected in southwest Spain, areas of the north west, southeast, the Mediterranean coast, Ibiza and Formentera.
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Aemet warned that in some areas the intense rainfall will be “accompanied by storms” with yellow warnings issued for the south west of the country, including Seville and Cadiz. Meanwhile Valencia is also covered by an amber warning for rain, only two weeks after the region was hit by devastating flash floods, killing more than 220 people.
Conditions are expected to improve by Friday, although yellow warnings remain for the south west of the country. Aemet predicts further heavy or persistent rainfall in Huelva, accompanied by thunderstorms while the coastline of Andalusia could experience “periods of strong winds. ”