Schools and parks closed as torrential rain batters eastern Spain
Valencia on edge as new storms revive memory of last year’s deadly floods
Valencia’s empty schoolyards and shuttered libraries felt, on a wet dawn this week, like a city holding its breath.
After hours of heavy overnight rain, Spain’s national weather agency AEMET issued red alerts across the eastern Mediterranean coast — warning of “a very complicated situation” and “extraordinary danger” in the provinces of Valencia and Castellón, and parts of Tarragona in Catalonia. Towns that still bear the scars of October 2024’s…