AN orange weather alert has been issued for Alicante province, with severe storms, large hail and dangerous wind gusts expected from Monday afternoon.
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has placed inland Alicante under the orange warning between 2pm and 9.59pm, the second-highest of its three alert levels and one signalling a genuine risk to public safety.
The coastal strip, including Benidorm, Denia and Torrevieja, sits one level down on yellow alert for storms, alongside separate yellow warnings for rain, coastal conditions and high temperatures across the wider region.
The breakdown comes from a bulletin issued on Sunday evening by the Valencian regional government’s Emergency Coordination Centre, which relays official alert levels across Castellon, Valencia and Alicante provinces once AEMET confirms a severe-weather episode is imminent.
Forecasters are warning of rainfall accumulations of up to 40mm in a single hour, alongside large hail and gusts strong enough to bring down branches and awnings.
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Alicante is also in the grip of what AEMET calls a torrid night — one where the temperature never drops below 25C, the threshold the agency uses in its own official statistics.
Alicante city recorded an overnight low of 26.4C on Monday morning, with Benidorm at 25.9C and Orihuela also at 25.9C.
It is part of a wider pattern: Valencia city alone has logged 100 such nights since 2022, against just 18 in the sixty years between 1940 and 1999.
In other words, Valencia has recorded more torrid nights in the last four summers than in six decades of the twentieth century combined.
AEMET says the trend is being driven by an unusually severe marine heatwave in the western Mediterranean, with sea temperatures running high enough to keep nights hot long after the sun has gone down.
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