Overview

• Aemet placed Valencia, Castellón and Tarragona under red alert from Sunday into Monday, kept the warning for Valencia through Monday night, and downgraded parts to orange as Ibiza and Formentera moved to red on Tuesday before being lowered to orange later in the day.
• Emergency phone alerts urged people to avoid travel and low-lying areas, with more than half a million students out of class in Valencia on Monday and beaches closed on the Balearic islands.
• Overnight storms produced localized flooding, an overflow of the La Saleta ravine in Aldaia, power outages in Tarragona, rescues in Castellón and near Zaragoza, and 132 incident reports in Ibiza, with no injuries confirmed.
• Spain’s military emergency unit deployed reinforcements to the Balearics, transport faced delays, and a Valencia league match was postponed to Tuesday subject to weather conditions.
• Forecasters warned of exceptional totals of 250–300 liters per square meter in parts of Valencia and Catalonia and up to 200 in Ibiza as a slow-moving system keeps conditions unstable.