British holidaymakers hoping to leave behind the rain by heading to one part of have been met with torrential downpours and flooding - while others have been enjoying roasting hot sunshine. Bad weather in large swathes of eastern Spain have brought chaos to the Costas. was on yellow storm alert today with the possibility of rain put at 100 per cent.
Hail stones have fallen in some parts of the Valencian community, which includes the provinces of Alicante and Valencia, with more predicted today. And further south in Murcia roads have been turned into raging torrents. In its capital city locals and tourists were pictured ankle-deep in water in its main street as they tried to negotiate their way past shops while others took refuge inside.
Elsewhere in the province cars were seen and wheelie bins were seen 'swimming' down streets which looked more like rivers and firefighters were said to be “working tirelessly” with roads closed in some places. Towns like Yecla, on Murcia’s north-east border with Alicante, are among the places where high temperatures and blue skies have given way to amazing scenes of hailstones and gusting winds in the past few hours. A Spanish weather website, flagging up large parts of eastern Spain including the Costa Blanca, warned earlier this morning: “In the next few hours storms will dump dozens of litres of water and hail on these areas in a very short space of time.
Be careful. It said: “The forecasts proved to be correct and yesterday storm.
