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The rain in Spain was worst in nearly 50 years
AEMET reported 11 major storms caused flooding, landslides, and evacuations, with Grazalema receiving over a year's rainfall in days during a record wet winter.
- On Thursday, AEMET announced Spain recorded its wettest January and February in nearly 50 years, with spokesman Ruben del Campo telling reporters the finding highlighted the extraordinary nature of these events.
- Eleven major storms swept Spain from late December to mid-February, bringing heavy rain and strong winds that delivered the record rainfall totals across the country.
- Grazalema in southern Spain received more than a full year's expected rainfall in days during Storm Leonardo in February; intense flooding forced evacuations and two people died.
- Neighbouring Portugal experienced its wettest February in 47 years, IPMA reported Tuesday, while AEMET forecast a 50 percent to 70 percent probability that spring will be warmer than usual.
- This winter marked the eighth consecutive warm or very warm winter in Spain, an unprecedented streak in AEMET records, with maps showing February 2026 rainfall well above 1991–2020 averages.
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The rain in Spain was worst in nearly 50 years
Spain endured its wettest January and February in almost half a century, with a string of deadly storms lashing the country, national weather agency AEMET said Thursday.
Spain lived its most rainy months of January and February in almost half a century, with rainfall that left several dead and forced the eviction of a whole town, reported the state meteorology agency Aemet on Thursday. “The whole of January and February 2026 has been the rainiest of the last 47 years, [...] The post Spain lived its rainy months of January and February in almost 50 years appeared first on Diario Digital Cronio de El Salvador.
“The period formed by the months of January and February of 2026 was the most rain in 47 years, which reflects the extraordinary nature of these rains,” said Aemet’s spokesman, Rubén del Campo, at a press conference. He is already known as “a combination of storms” that reached the Iberian Peninsula, which caused floods in Portugal and Spain, in addition to other damages, and left 20 dead in the two countries, translated into 11 temporary “of gr…
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