Overview
- Storm Adam dumped exceptionally heavy rain across eastern and southern Spain and the Balearic Islands, prompting shelter-in-place orders that affected more than 800,000 people and leaving many towns cut off by flash floods.
- Authorities confirmed multiple deaths including a 35-year-old woman swept away in Cabrera de Mar and other fatalities in Sagunto and Oliva, with regional reports putting the recent toll between at least two and four people.
- Emergency services carried out hundreds of rescues, including helicopter airlifts and more than 400 operations in the Valencia region, while Spain’s Military Emergency Unit helped evacuate stranded residents from rooftops.
- The storms caused major infrastructure disruption: Ibiza airport was flooded and closed with dozens of flights cancelled or diverted, roads and rail services were suspended, and crews began wide damage assessments as some movement restrictions were lifted.
- AEMET issued multiple red alerts and reported rainfall totals in some spots exceeding 600 mm over short periods, and scientists warned that warmer sea temperatures are increasing evaporation and the odds of intense, localized autumn floods.