Red, amber and yellow warnings are in force across Spain over the next few days
Storm Ingrid may have passed over Spain, but that doesn’t mean the end of the disruptive weather(Image: Meteored Epaña)
Red ‘extraordinary danger’ alerts are in force across parts of Spain over the next three days, as well as amber and yellow weather warnings covering large parts of the peninsula. It comes as Storm Ingrid brought chaos and disruption to Europe over the last few days.
Storm Ingrid – named by the Portuguese weather service Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) earlier this week – has been bringing severe weather to Spain, Portugal, and other parts of Europe, including the UK, over the last few days, with the worst of the storm experienced on Friday (January 23).
Similarly to the UK’s weather agency The Met Office, Spain has State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), which issues severe weather alerts when the conditions could cause danger. According to AEMET, a red warning signifies ‘extreme risk’ and in this case means ‘extraordinary danger’.
Spain’s weather agency urges people in the affected areas to ‘take preventative measures and act’ as well as following instructions of authorities, avoiding unneccesary travel and constantly check weather updates.
Red, amber and yellow warnings are in force across large parts of Spain over the next few days(Image: AEMET)
On Sunday (January 25) several red coastal alerts are in force across northern and north-west Spain, including A Coruna and Cantabria, where wind gusts are forecast to reach as high as 88kmh, AEMET warns.
For the remainder of the day on Sunday, large parts of mainland Spain are affected by yellow and amber warnings for wind, rain, snow, avalanches and storms, including the entirety of the southern and eastern coasts, and popular areas such as Alicante and Barcelona.
Yellow and amber wind and coastal warnings are in force across the whole of the Balearic Islands all day on Sunday, which covers Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca.
On Monday (January 26), similar coastal warnings are in force across the northern, eastern, and southern coasts of mainland Spain as well as across the Balearic Islands. One red warning for rain is in force in Pontevedra where accumulated rainfall within 24 hours could reach 150 litres, AEMET warns. Snow and avalanche warnings are also in place on Monday.
Then, on Tuesday (January 27), the red rain warning in Pontevedra remains in place, along with yellow and amber rain, coastal and wind alerts across large parts of Spain, particularly along the coast. AEMET only shows warnings for the next three days, so we can not see if these warnings are set to remain in place throughout the rest of the week.
Spanish weather site Meteored España warns that a ‘very active cold front’ is set to arrive between Monday and Tuesday, marking the start of a very unstable week in Spain, with heavy rain, winds, snowfall and rough seas. They wrote that while Storm Ingrid has left Spain, its departure will not bring stable weather.