Spain's Met Office activates new severe weather warnings for Malaga province

Malaga is back on alert for bad weather from this Tuesday and until Thursday. The Spanish Meteorology Agency, Aemet, has activated a yellow alert today, 22 March, for the Costa del Sol, Valle del Guadalhorce and Axarquia areas due to east and northeast winds of force 7 that could leave generate waves of between 3 to 4 metres on coast.

Then from midnight on Wednesday until 12 noon on Thursday an orange warning will then be in place due to heavy rain in the Serranía de Ronda, Costa del Sol and Valle del Guadalhorce areas with up to 80mm falling in 12 hours. The remainder of the province will be on a yellow alert with a forecast for rainfall that could deposit up to 20mm in one hour and up to 60mm in 12 hours.

In addition, an isolated cold storm that will likley be located in the Gulf of Cadiz on Thursday could once again favour the arrival of a calima (sand and dust from the Sahara) into Andalucía and, with it, the dreaded ‘muddy’ rain that affected a good part of Spain last week, according to José Luis Escudero on his SUR blog Tomentas y Rayos.

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Regarding temperatures, Aemet expects few changes or perhaps a slight increase in the south and in the interior of the peninsula and slight decreases in the northeast of the couuntry and the Balearic Islands.