4 Dec, 2020 @ 19:27
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Snow danger on Granada to Murcia and Valencia highway

STORM Dora, which has brought miserable weather to the much of western Europe has hit southern Spain.

Drivers trying to cross the Sierra Nevada to get from Granada to Murcia and the Costa Blanca will have to take extra care as the first snow of the season started to fall.

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These exclusive pictures show snow starting to settle on the A7 near Baza (Granada). Traffic slowed as road conditions became slippery, with articulated lorries on the main route between Andalucia and Murcia, and Valencia slowing to a crawl.

With temperatures in the Sierra Nevada set to plummet, there is a severe danger of ice.

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SCENE: Map of snowfall affected road

Overnight temperatures in Baza are predicted to fall to as low as minus five. Regional authorities are sending out gritter lorries, with car and lorry drivers advised to take extra care.

The Spanish Met office is predicting snowfalls of 4cm for Baza, with deeper drifts expected to collect.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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