{"id":290956,"date":"2025-07-25T15:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290956\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:51:18","slug":"freak-storms-lash-spanish-tourist-resorts-with-roads-becoming-raging-rivers-and-hail-turning-streets-white-as-brits-hide-from-lightning-in-benidorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/290956\/","title":{"rendered":"Freak storms lash Spanish tourist resorts with roads becoming raging rivers and HAIL turning streets white as Brits hide from lightning in Benidorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

A series of freak storms have struck popular Spanish tourist hotspots turning roads into powerful rivers while hail has lashed down and turned streets white.<\/p>\n

Dramatic footage shows dirty water gushing down streets and into houses in Murcia, southeastern Spain<\/a>, while enormous grey clouds tower over the province.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Murcia region has been badly hit and in the city of Caravaca de la Cruz, a major pilgrimage site, golf-sized hail balls smashed down on cars.<\/p>\n

Up to 20 residents from the city were evacuated and spent the night in a municipal sports pavilion,\u00a0according to\u00a0local reports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hail turned into enormous mounds of ice before quickly melting with rapids forming.<\/p>\n

Mucky fast-flowing water streamed through the region, filling some homes and businesses, leaving the roads barren.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cafes and restaurants were left empty with people taking shelter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Calasparra and Casas Navarro are also among the most affected areas.<\/p>\n

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A series of freak storms have struck popular Spanish tourist hotspots turning roads into powerful rivers<\/p>\n

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Dramatic footage shows dirty water gushing down streets and into houses in Murcia, southeastern Spain<\/p>\n

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The Murcia region has been badly hit and in the city of Caravaca de la Cruz, a major pilgrimage site, golf-sized hail balls smashed down on cars<\/p>\n

As was the town of Moratalla, where car windows were smashed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, British tourists in Benidorm have been forced to take shelter as enormous thunder storms lash down on the Alicante region.<\/p>\n

Idyllic beaches and bars lay vacant as aggresive thunder and lightning hit the province.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Video clips circulating on social media show popular holiday spots looking abandonded\u00a0<\/b>as tourists remain indoors in a bid look to escape the extreme conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alicante was placed on high alert on Thursday night by state weather agency Aemet. \u00a0<\/p>\n

While Murcia is remaining braced for further torrential downpours and thunderstorms until Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dramatic downpours following a prolonged heatwave in the region, while temperatures have now plummeted to 10C below normal.<\/p>\n

Parts of Valencia, Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona have also been placed under an amber weather warning for rain and storms\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n

The flooding comes less than two weeks after ferocious storms lashed Spain, with ‘two swept away’ by flash floods.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The hail turned into enormous mounds of ice before quickly melting with rapids forming<\/p>\n

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A car window was smashed in the town of Moratalla, while other vehicles were left battered by the storms<\/p>\n

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Mucky fast-flowing water streamed through the region, filling some homes and businesses<\/p>\n

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British tourists in Benidorm have been forced to take shelter as enormous thunder storms lash down\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dramatic thunderstorms hit Benidorm while the region was placed on high alert on Thursday night<\/p>\n

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Video clips circulating on social media show popular holiday spots looking abandonded as tourists remain indoors\u00a0<\/p>\n

Videos shared on social media showed waterspouts forming along the coast by Cubelles, Catalonia earlier this month. Others appeared near Valencia and Tarragona.<\/p>\n

Storms ultimately forced a flight from Barcelona to the U.S. to turn around moments after takeoff, as a violent hailstorm damaged the nose of the plane.<\/p>\n

But as Catalonia grappled with the ‘DANA’ cold drop, Spain’s arid south saw temperatures push towards 40C, with a forest fire breaking out near a popular tourist hotspot.<\/p>\n

The forest fire broke out in Mijas, sweeping through Mijas Golf, an area popular with tourists, according to the Spanish Eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The south of Spain has been lashed by fires since the first major heatwaves in June. More than 21,000 hectares of land have burned so far this year.<\/p>\n

The national weather agency, AEMET, said last month that it was the country’s hottest June on record.<\/p>\n

Two people died in a wildfire on July 1 in the region of Catalonia, where Tarragona is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of freak storms have struck popular Spanish tourist hotspots turning roads into powerful rivers while hail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,12,104,16833,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-290956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-spain","11":"tag-valencia","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114914675072235492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}