US EditionFears of flooding in Madrid as rivers brim
- Madrid has activated emergency measures due to heavy rainfall, increasing the risk of flooding across the region, urging residents to avoid unnecessary travel.
- The State Meteorological Agency issued yellow and orange alerts for heavy rainfall affecting regions across Spain, warning of potential flooding risks.
- Multiple universities and workplaces in Madrid suspended activities or moved to remote work in response to the severe weather conditions, ensuring safety during the rain.
- Emergency services are monitoring the Manzanares and Jarama rivers, where flooding threatens to overflow and affect road closures.
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Floods and permanent rains in several regions of Spain
For weeks, Spain has been struggling with storms and floods. The situation is far from as dramatic as it was in Valencia just five months ago - and yet the situation brings back unpleasant memories, reports Kristina Böker.
The beginning of the end of the perfect storm overhanging Barajas
The neighbors of the airport neighborhood, in the district of Barajas, are already used to walking in mud every time the sky of the capital roars. "This time it has not been the worst of all, but sometimes the water reaches 40 centimeters in height, the portals are flooded and all the furniture has to be thrown away", says a group of retired people from the neighborhood. Yesterday at noon there was still presence of emergency vehicles and areas …
Firemen, police and drones guard the Manzanares in the capital in their most critical hours: "We never saw the river like this"
A record of the Firefighters and the Municipal Police of Madrid continues to monitor the level of the Manzanares River 24 hours a day, attentive to its variations in the most...
"It's affecting me a lot, it's never ending": why there are people who are doing so badly that it rains without stopping
The prolonged rains of the last few weeks have monopolized the conversation, almost always to express tiredness: "The good weather invites you to leave your house. The bad weather to shelter you in a closed place"Dinners with others, one-night dusts or send 'nudes': what does it mean to put the horns in 2025? The intense rains of the last few weeks have sown an atmosphere of despair and disquiet. It is as if the entire cities had been trapped in…
Floods in southern Spain claimed two deaths
Heavy rains keep large parts of Spain and the neighbouring country Portugal in check. In southern Spanish regions at least two people were killed in floods. In Madrid the bullring and several districts stood under water. Previously the flood of a local river railway had created. In Toledo south of Madrid emergency forces put a dike around a hospital for cross-sectional paraplegia, which is close to a river. Also in other cities, rivers threatene…
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