Areas of Majorca have gone into lockdown as its people, including holidaying Brits, were warned to prepare for the storm which has already killed more than 200 people in Spain.
Areas, including parks, gardens and cemeteries, have been cordoned off in preparation for the weather pattern. Homeless people have also been evacuated from areas of Palma, Majorca.
Weather warnings are in place as the country’s national weather service Aemet, warned 120mm of water could fall in around three hours, bringing havoc to its streets.
They said in a statement: “Precipitation is expected in the south-eastern peninsular, south-east of Castilla and León, Aragón, Cataluña, Levante and Baleares, without falling into large areas of the Alps. May be dangerous Chubascos and torments locally fierce and/or persistent in the far west from Andalucía and in the lower Ebro and Baleares without discarding areas of the southern part of the system Central Western.
“On Saturday the instability will continue in the Eastern Mediterranean area and in the southern part of Andalucía, with chubascos and torments that could still be locally fierce y/o persistent in Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia and Baleares, without discarding them in Cádiz and the West from Málaga.”
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