Overview

• Spain’s weather service AEMET warned of very heavy rain totals reaching several hundred liters per square meter with a tornado risk for parts of the Balearics and eastern Spain.
• Ibiza Airport’s runway and terminal flooded, halting operations for about an hour to ninety minutes, with 24 flights canceled on Ibiza and 19 on Mallorca, plus diversions and a closed access road.
• Public transport on Ibiza was temporarily suspended as streets turned into torrents and emergency crews worked to clear water and debris.
• Power outages hit hundreds of households after lightning and flooding, including 576 on Formentera and around 300 across Menorca, Ibiza and Mallorca, according to regional officials.
• Authorities deployed the Unidad Militar de Emergencias to pump floodwater and issued mobile phone alerts urging residents to avoid travel, while heavy rain and storms also affected Valencia where 110 l/m² fell in one hour in Carcaixent.