Overview

• Spain's Aemet warned of extraordinary danger for Sunday night and Monday with the potential for flooding and sudden rises in waterways.
• Regional emergency coordination sent red-alert messages urging people not to travel, to avoid flood-prone areas and riverbanks, and to move to higher floors if in low-lying zones.
• Valencia city authorities ordered Monday closures of schools along with libraries, parks, gardens, markets and cemeteries to limit movement.
• Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez amplified the warnings and called on citizens to follow instructions from civil protection and emergency services.
• The precautions come nearly a year after floods in the Valencia area killed about 235 people, an event linked to a gota fría with impacts intensified by climate change and heavy urbanization, and which has fueled ongoing protests over past emergency management.