US EditionStorm Leo pounds Iberian Peninsula with torrential rains
Storm Leonardo, merging with a tropical atmospheric river, brings up to 250mm of rain to already saturated areas, prompting flood alerts and emergency responses in southern Spain and Portugal.
- Storm Leonardo, merging with a tropical moisture corridor, struck the Iberian Peninsula this week as the Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere expects heavy rain from Feb 3 to Feb 7.
- A succession of autumn-to-winter storms has saturated soils in Malaga province, raising flood risk, with Daniela Fraga warning heavy rain could cause inundations.
- Emergency services mobilised across Andalusia, deploying 112 services, civil protection, Infoca, fire brigades, Red Cross, psychological care teams, ACOR aircraft, and an advanced command post in Ronda.
- Power outages and infrastructure damage in central Portugal signal long-term rebuilding needs, with nearly 115,000 households without electricity, around 85,000 in Leiria, and Luis Montenegro, Prime Minister of Portugal, warning recovery could take years.
- Aemet issued a maximum red warning for heavy totals, including local forecasts for Grazalema, where rainfall could exceed 200–250 mm in 24 hours from midnight on Wednesday until the beginning of Thursday across Serranía de Ronda, western Costa del Sol, and Guadalhorce Valley.
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Part of southern Spain and several regions of Portugal are hit by the Leonardo Depression. Rail traffic is paralysed and schools are closed.
More than 3,000 people were evacuated in southern Spain today and schools will be closed today as storm Leonardo, which forecasters say is expected to bring heavy rainfall to the Iberian Peninsula, is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to several regions in Portugal.
Storm Leo pounds Iberian Peninsula with torrential rains
Spanish and Portuguese authorities braced on Wednesday for the impact of Storm Leo, suspending classes in some areas and warning against travel, just one week after deadly Storm Kristin wreaked havoc across the Iberian Peninsula.
Extraordinaryly persistent rains force us to activate a special warning from the AEMET before the arrival of Leonardo. We will be very aware of a change in the time that will force us to look to the sky, before the arrival of an important novelty that can be key in these days ahead of us. It is time to be very clear what can happen in these days in which it can really end up being essential in these days. It will be necessary to visualize this t…
The Iberian Peninsula braced for a major storm on Tuesday, with schools closed in southern Spain and a new alert level declared in Portugal after last week's severe weather that killed five people.
The weather situation in Spain is causing the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) to be forced to launch several special warnings, mainly because of the effects of the Leonardo erasure , which is already beginning to be noticed in some parts of the country. As the meteorological organism has already advanced, the heavy and "extraordinarily persistent rains" are going to be the protagonists from the early morning of Tuesday to Wednesday in the Penin…
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