Large parts of Spain are set for another day of heavy rain and thunderstorms today as a cold low-pressure system sweeps across the peninsula.
According to forecasters at Meteored, the storm system currently positioned over northwestern Spain will push intense showers from west to east throughout the day, affecting most of the country.
Rain is expected to begin early in the morning across western Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Madrid and much of Andalucia before spreading further inland.
Meteorologists say the rainfall will organise into a broad weather front containing embedded thunderstorms, meaning intense electrical storms hidden within a larger mass of cloud associated with the cold front.
The heaviest rainfall is expected in mountainous areas and parts of northern Spain.
Forecasters predict accumulations of up to 30 litres per square metre in southern Galicia and the Sistema Central mountain range.
Between 10 and 20 litres per square metre could also fall in Madrid, northern Aragon, the Andalucian provinces of Sevilla and Cordoba, the northern plateau and parts of Asturias and the Cantabrian Mountains.
Meanwhile, eastern Andalucia, Murcia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and much of the Catalan coastline are expected to avoid the worst of the rain.
Storms are forecast to intensify during the afternoon in La Rioja, inland areas of the Basque Country, Navarra, northern Aragon and possibly inland Catalonia, where the European weather model predicts significant lightning activity between 1pm and 5pm.
Spain’s state weather agency, Aemet, has so far only activated weather warnings in Galicia, where more than 15 litres per square metre could fall within a single hour in western and southwestern parts of A Coruña, the Rias Baixas and the Miño area of Pontevedra.
The warnings will remain in place from 10am until 10pm on Sunday, although further alerts are expected to be issued elsewhere in the coming hours.
The unsettled conditions follow several days of unstable weather caused by the same cold depression hovering near the Iberian Peninsula, bringing repeated thunderstorms, hail and sharp drops in temperature across much of Spain.
