{"id":95048,"date":"2025-09-30T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/95048\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:19:09","slug":"panic-in-streets-as-red-alert-warning-issued-for-irish-holiday-hotspots-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/95048\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic in streets as red alert warning issued for Irish holiday hotspots in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one school has been evacuated because of the torrential rain with more affected by flooding and leaks<\/p>\n<p>13:52, 30 Sep 2025Updated 13:53, 30 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_Ibiza.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Ibiza and Formentera weather: Urgent Red Alert over &#8216;dangerous&#8217; rain. (Image: @OscarBForestal\/X)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Red alert weather warnings have been issued for popular Irish holiday hotspots in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">The red warnings were issued for the Balearic Islands of Ibiza and Formentera on Tuesday. The alert is for torrential rain and will remain active until 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">There are reports in the local media that the Balearic Ministry of Education has urged families not to go to schools to collect their children as it is too risky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">At least one school has been evacuated because of the torrential rain with more affected by flooding and leaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">&#8220;The storm has become stationary, and rainfall could reach up to 180 litres in just a few hours,\u201d said Aemet (the state meteorological agency for Spain).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">It has not been confirmed if the warning status will be updated after 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">There is also a yellow alert in force for people in the region south of Mallorca and an orange alert in force for the Northern Coast of Alicante.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\">Spain is the most popular travel destination among holidaymakers from Ireland with some 2.5m visits recorded every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"irishmirror\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=39e53cb8-b266-4e33-8d00-e9f7a38f420c&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one school has been evacuated because of the torrential rain with more affected by flooding and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,61327,11,12,15,16,5,383,7,8,443,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-95048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-ibiza-town","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-weather","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}