Overview

• Spain’s weather agency kept red and orange alerts for Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearics, warning up to 180mm of rain in 12 hours in Tarragona and 100mm in one hour in Valencia.
• Renfe suspended Barcelona–Valencia services on the Mediterranean corridor until further notice, cancelling at least 17 trains and stranding about 3,000 passengers.
• Ibiza airport halted operations for roughly 80 minutes due to flooding, with at least 24 flights cancelled as crews cleared the runway.
• Catalan firefighters logged about 340 flood incidents and 31 rescues, emergency lines took more than 2,100 calls, and officials urged residents to stay indoors and avoid waterways.
• Hundreds were evacuated with 1,000–1,100 people spending the night in shelters in Montsià, no deaths were reported in Terres de l’Ebre, and forecasters signaled further heavy rain could return later this week.