25 Nov, 2020 @ 12:42
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BREAKING: Malaga and Costa del Sol placed on orange alert for heavy rainfall as Atlantic storm hits southern Spain

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GRAB A BROLLY: rainy days ahead

MALAGA has been placed on an orange alert for heavy rainfall.

The warning from weather agency AEMET will start at midnight tonight and last until at least 3pm on Thursday.

Experts predict up to 30 litres of rain could fall per square metre in just one hour.

The orange warning will affect Malaga city, the Costa del Sol and the Guadalhorce Valley.

The Axarquia, Antequera and Ronda will be on the lower yellow alert.

It comes as an Atlantic storm reached southern Spain today, leaving heavy rainfall and thunder across eastern Andalucia.

Sevilla and Huelva are already on an orange alert and will be so until midnight tonight.

The storm will then move east to the likes of Malaga, with the rainfall to mostly stop on Friday.

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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