18 Dec, 2019 @ 15:48
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Storm Elsa arriving to Spain’s Malaga as Ronda, Axarquia and Costa del Sol placed on ORANGE alerts

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SPAIN’S weather agency AEMET has issued an orange-level warning for rainfall in Malaga as storm Elsa continues to batter the country. 

The second-most severe warning is in place for Ronda and the Axarquia this Friday.

Experts predict that from midnight until 12pm, some 80 litres of rainfall per square metre could fall in both areas.

There is also an orange warning for wind in Ronda.

In Malaga there is a yellow warning that Friday for Antequera, Axarquía, Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce for gusts of up to 80 km/hr until 6 pm.

Meanwhile the whole of Malaga’s coastline is on orange alert for dangerous coastal conditions with waves of between three and five metres predicted for the whole of Friday.

Elsa will arrive to the province tomorrow with up to 40 litres of rain per sqm expected in Ronda and Axarquia (with a yellow warning issued by AEMET).

Winds of up to 80km/hr will also arrive on the Costa del Sol and in Guadalhorce from around 6pm – a yellow warning is in place here also.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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