Storms

The president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, has warned that a hundred other residents of Ubrique (Cadiz) could be evicted in the next few hours because of land movements.

The Junta de Andalucía has recorded more than 350 serious incidents in the road network of the Autonomous Community in recent days, which has forced the closure of a large number of roads due to the Leonardo depression. The arrival of the storm Marta could worsen the situation.

Heavy rains are expected again this Saturday, with 11,000 people evicted and a hundred roads cut.

They warn that with the new Marta depression scheduled for the weekend, "the worst is yet to come."

The company has explained that due to the storm, maritime traffic in the Strait of Gibraltar is being halted, so it has decided to suspend activity during the morning shift on Saturday.

The residents of the Ribera de Gaidovar area of the municipality of Grazalema (Cadiz), who live very close to the Fresnillo dam, where the water level is very high, have accumulated 478 litres of water per square metre in recent hours.

This is an elderly man who fell into the sea in the morning and died.

A cold front from the Arctic has alerted much of Europe. There have been problems at airports and public transport in Scotland, the Netherlands, France and Italy.

The 112 Andalusian Emergency Services have reported that they are looking for two men who are missing and have so far only found their van.

The storm of rain affecting Andalusia, especially Malaga, has so far caused 304 incidents in this province, and in the municipalities of Alhaurín de la Torre and Cartama several houses have been evacuated and several rescues have been made due to the floods.

In this place, repair work was still under way, due to the damage caused by the storm in November, and the strong waves of these days have hit the A0th Walk again.

Images taken from the air show that the fields and mountains, which until recently were yellow or reddish, were completely whitened by the snow this morning.

The snow started early in the morning in Sakana and covered the roads in white, forcing the A-10 motorway to be cut off in the Pamplona sense due to the impact of an accident truck.

Agents of the mountain section of the Ertzaintza Surveillance and Rescue Unit began this morning the search for the 77-year-old shepherd who has been missing since yesterday and who was supposed to have come down with his flock from a border near the Urbia fields.

According to the weather forecast, tomorrow and the day after the snow level will drop to 500 meters, and precipitation will be very abundant. 

In the Navarre Pyrenees, the port of Belagua has woken up this Saturday with a layer of snow of about 5 centimeters and a temperature of about 1 ° C.  To ensure safety of movement, it is mandatory to use chains or winter tires between kilometres 56 and 59 of the NA-137 (Burgui-Isaba – France).

The isolated 'Alice' depression has caused flooding on the Mediterranean side of the Iberian peninsula, particularly in the Balearic Islands, particularly in Ibiza, where there have been floods following the heavy storm.

The Ibiza and Formentera Islands have issued a red alert for the possibility of accumulating 180 litres per square metre in 12 hours. The State Agency for Meteorology (Aemet) has called for "caution" in the face of "possible flooding and sudden floods."

The mayor of the city has stated that "the most difficult hours are likely to arrive this afternoon."