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‘Heaviest rains since 2022’ finally predicted to soak Spain’s Costa del Sol this week

7 01 2021 Filomena (41)
January 7, 2021 (Malaga) The phenomenal climatic Filomena is already noticeable in the streets of Malaga with cold, rain and wind

WEATHER experts are finally predicting a drought-smashing torrential downpour will hit Malaga this week.

After an alarmingly dry rainy season, it was beginning to look like the window for the kind of rainfall that the province needs had passed.

But at long last, there is a ‘100% chance’ of rain forecast for Friday, with many estimations putting it to be the rainiest day in Malaga since December 9, 2022.

Some of the most optimistic forecasts for Friday are anticipating 50 – 80mm of rain in just 24 hours, although it remains to be seen how much will fall where it’s needed or be lost downstream.

A ‘sky river’ rolling in from the Caribbean all the way across the Atlantic is expected to usher in a ‘radical change in weather’, bringing with it heavy rain, heavy winds and snow.

‘Storm Karlotta’ already has Spain’s meteorological agency Aemet scrambling to activate yellow and orange warnings for the north of the country from Thursday.

Forecasts indicate that Malaga could receive as much as 80mm of rain on Friday – the heaviest rainfall in 14 months

Aemet won the battle to name the storm ahead of the UK’s meteorological agency, which would have labelled it ‘Storm Kathleen.’

The news will come as sweet music to ears in Catalunya, which has recently activated water restrictions affecting six million people amid a devastating drought.

Both the provinces of Cadiz and Malaga are gasping under the most serious (grave) category of water shortage and drought status of ‘prolonged.’

Water storage tanks are starting to run dry in villages around the coast, with elevated communities on the high ground among the first to suffer. 

Juanma Moreno, the Junta President, had previously said that the region’s largest cities would face water cuts in the spring unless it ‘rained for 30 days straight.’

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Walter Finch

Walter Finch, who comes from a background in video and photography, is keen on reporting on and investigating organised crime, corruption and abuse of power. He is fascinated by the nexus between politics, business and law-breaking, as well as other wider trends that affect society.
Born in London but having lived in six countries, he is well-travelled and worldly. He studied Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and earned his diploma in journalism from London's renowned News Associates during the Covid era.
He got his first break in the business working on the Foreign News desk of the Daily Mail's online arm, where he also helped out on the video desk.
He then decided to escape the confines of London and returned to Spain in 2022, having previously lived in Barcelona for many years.
He took up up a reporter role with the Olive Press Newspaper and today he is based in La Linea de la Concepcion at the heart of a global chokepoint and crucial maritime hub, where he edits the Olive Press Gibraltar edition.
He is also the deputy news editor across all editions of the newspaper.

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