Overview
- - Aemet’s red warning for the Sol and Guadalhorce areas ended at midnight on 5 January after torrential rain delivered locally around 150–200 mm, with peaks near 190 mm on the Grande river and more than 180 mm in Casarabonela.
- - Civil Protection sent ES-Alert messages to 27 municipalities, urging residents to avoid travel and watercourses as authorities prepared shelters and coordinated responses.
- - The Junta’s tally includes a flooded school in Estepona, the collapse of a bridge over the Grande river in Coín, and a retaining-wall failure in Monda that forced evacuations of residents.
- - Firefighters and police carried out multiple rescues in Cártama and other towns, including motorists trapped by rising water near Málaga Airport and in overflowed streams, with no injuries reported in these incidents.
- - Metro line 2 in Málaga was temporarily suspended then restored on Monday, bus links and numerous roads were disrupted, and officials warned that rivers and drainage channels remain hazardous even as rainfall eased.