The storm which hit the entire south-east of Spain subsided this Monday after causing the deaths of two people in Malaga and Granada last Sunday. This morning, the Local Police Headquarters of Íllora (Granada) confirmed the appearance of the young man “who disappeared yesterday”. The body was found around 1 a.m. and was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Granada for an autopsy. Furthermore, the search for a third missing person in Malaga has resumed.
The deceased young man, originally from Zujaira (Granada), was swept away by the current of the Cañada stream, in the municipality of Íllora, when he tried to cross it on a motorbike with a friend. The companion managed to get to safety.
This morning, under natural light, the Civil Guard resumed the search for the missing person in the town of Alhaurín el Grande, Malaga. He was accompanied by another man, whose body was found on Sunday, when trace of the two men was lost. The two men, aged 53 and 54, were traveling in the morning in a van swept away by the waters. The vehicle was found overturned in the Fahala River, with significant damage but with no one inside. Tracking efforts made it possible to locate the lifeless body of one of its occupants in the city of Malaga a few hours later.
This is the most dramatic report of torrential rains which will ease from today Monday. The National Meteorological Agency (Aemet) predicts the departure of the current storm on the peninsula in recent days, even with locally heavy precipitation in the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and the coasts of Almería and Murcia.
Last night the danger of torrential rains and overflows focused on the Valencian Community. There were some rescues, expulsions, road and Valencia metro line cuts and plane hijackings, but no injuries were reported. Rainfall and increased flows have brought back the ghosts in the area that suffered the fateful damage of October 29, 2024, which caused the death of 230 people. The Poyo ravine, among others, and the Magro river collapsed with a lot of water, but no serious risk situations occurred. There were some occasional overflows from the Barxet ravines or the Vaca river, but without significant consequences. The Generalitat Emergency Center has reduced the alert level from red to yellow.
The rains, however, were torrential in the Valencian Community and left more than 250 liters per square meter in the regions of Ribera and Safor. In addition, strong hailstorms occurred in localities like Torrent and a total of 1,513 lightning strikes fell in Valencian territory until 9 p.m. on Sunday evening, an “absolutely extraordinary” figure, according to Aemet.
Aemet predicts that the storm will leave the peninsula this Monday and that anticyclonic weather will arrive. On Tuesday, instability will still persist in the Mediterranean regions, with cloudy or overcast skies and precipitation, sometimes accompanied by storms and hail, which are expected to be locally strong and persistent in the regions of the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and the coasts of Murcia and Almería, also possible on those of Catalonia, and will generally tend to stop and become increasingly clear.
Precipitation may appear in the form of snow in the mountains of the far east and Majorca above 1400/1800 meters, and may drop locally to 1200 meters initially in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
No precipitation is expected across the rest of the peninsula, although there will be light and heavy cloudiness with a general tendency to clear throughout the day. Only in the far west and in the Cantabrian Sea will the sky be slightly cloudy or clear. In the Canaries, cloudy skies with the possibility of occasional showers on the mountainous islands, tending to clear.
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