Majorca hit by severe weather warning as storm sparks airport chaos and floods town

The Balearic Islands person been issued with a reddish alert for dense rain, with the airdrome being forced to suspend landings and take-offs for 20 minutes arsenic the tempest hits

Majorca has been battered by dense rain, starring to aggregate formation delays and cancellations that person impacted hundreds of passengers.

Palma Airport was adjacent forced to halt landings and take-offs for 20 minutes owed to the terrible weather, perchance ruining vacation plans for tourists hoping to drawback the past rays of summertime sun. Some flights owed to onshore astatine Palma Airport were diverted distant to different airports, including Ibiza, Menorca and Barcelona.

Authorities astatine the airdrome scrambled to regain power arsenic the Palma Met Office issued a reddish alert — the highest level of informing - predicting much than 40 litres of rainfall per quadrate metre successful immoderate parts of Majorca. The concern was peculiarly grim successful the fashionable coastal municipality of Soller, which experienced flooding.

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While determination volition beryllium a little respite from the mediocre upwind this day successful Majorca, dense rainfall is forecasted again for tomorrow, with different reddish alert expected. Tomorrow's temperatures crossed the Balearics are predicted to scope betwixt 25C and 27C, with lows of 16C to 19C.

Typically, Majorca and different nearby Spanish islands bask temperatures up to 28C astatine this clip of year, with an mean rainfall of conscionable 23 mm successful September. However, Majorca is surely experiencing a stormy commencement to Autumn — connected Saturday, an amber alert was issued for the full island, with the heaviest rainfall recorded successful the eastbound and southeast.

In Menorca, Arenal d'en Castell successful the northbound of the land experienced terrible flooding connected Saturday aft a whopping 125 litres per quadrate metre fell wrong conscionable 90 minutes. This follows an incidental past period erstwhile Majorca was deed by aggravated rainfall, resulting successful respective homes being flooded with up to 50 cm of water, reports the Express.

The Civil Guard had to measurement successful to evacuate 10 radical from their homes. However, Majorca's upwind is acceptable to instrumentality a crook for the better, with sunny days and nary rainfall expected connected Wednesday and Thursday. But don't enactment distant your umbrellas conscionable yet — the hazard of rainfall is predicted to instrumentality connected Friday and Saturday, accompanied by a driblet successful temperatures, particularly connected Saturday.