Overview
- In Catalonia, Protecció Civil ended the Inuncat alert for the Levante episode but kept prealerts to monitor swollen rivers in Girona and high avalanche risk in the eastern Pyrenees.
- Historic flooding hit Málaga’s Guadalhorce valley, with the river peaking near 5.8 meters in Cártama, prompting evacuations and cleanup as Aemet stood down the red warning.
- Three people are missing in Andalucía: two men whose van was swept away by the Fahala in Alhaurín el Grande—later found 1.6 km downstream—and a motorcyclist carried off by a swollen arroyo near Íllora.
- In Corrientes, Argentina, December rains reached record levels—around 520 mm this month—putting San Luis del Palmar under emergency with more than 400 people evacuated or self-evacuated.
- Prefectura and police search for two tourists missing in the Paraná at Ituzaingó, while unrelated cases in Argentina include a Rosario shooting under fiscal investigation and a DUI fatality with the driver detained in Santiago del Estero.