Spain issues alert as UK tourists warned of 'important risk'

Weather warnings have been issued for parts of Spain with members of the public warned about an 'important risk'.

Spain's weather agency Aemet warned that heavy rainfall is expected to hit parts of the country including Granada, Alicante, the Balearics and Barcelona on Wednesday, November 13. Forecasters have warned people in the affected areas to expect almost 24 hours of heavy downpours.

The warning comes as yet another DANA - a weather phenomenon that causes heavy rainfall and flash floods - is set to strike the country. Valencia, which was devastated by flooding, costing more than 200 lives, at the end of October, is once again set to receive severe rainfall.

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Yellow weather warnings are in place on the Granada coast, Castellon, Barcelona, most of Valencia and northern Majorca. More serious orange-level warnings have been issued on the southern coast of Valencia, the northern coast of Alicante, the whole of Ibiza and southern Majorca, where forecasters have warned of an 'important risk'.

Experts say the weather event will arrive from France to the northeast of the peninsula. El Tiempo said: "Strong accumulations are also expected in the south along the Mediterranean coast of Andalucia, although also in areas of the Ebro valley and the eastern Cantabrian Sea."

It added: "With the entry of the DANA from the northeast, the entry of colder air is also expected from Tuesday, which will mean that we will see some capitals reaching maximum temperatures in the single digits.

“With the drop in temperature, we will also see good accumulation in some mountain areas, since the snow level will be around 1,000 meters both in the north and in areas of the centre of the peninsula."