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Spain evacuates thousands as unprecedented torrential rains slam multiple regions

Abdiwahab Ahmed
World
Storm Leonardo unleashed what forecasters called “extraordinary” rain across the Iberian peninsula on Wednesday, forcing thousands from their homes in southern Spain, shutting schools and crippling rail service as authorities warned of life-threatening floods and landslides. Spain’s national weather agency, AEMET, placed parts of Andalusia under its highest red alert for torrential rain, saying the storm risked triggering flash floods and landslides in already saturated terrain. The agency said some locations in the southern…

Torrential storms trigger landslide, leaving Sicilian town on cliff edge

Abdiwahab Ahmed
World
More than 1,500 evacuated as landslide threatens cliffside homes in Sicily’s Niscemi NISCEMI, Sicily — More than 1,500 people have been evacuated from the Sicilian town of Niscemi after a major landslide, triggered by violent storms, left homes teetering on the edge of a cliff, Italy’s civil protection chief said. Niscemi, a town of about 25,000 in south-central Sicily, sits on a plateau that authorities say is gradually collapsing toward the plain below, driven by water that remains trapped in the subsoil. The shifting…

Three killed as torrential rains and flash flooding batter California

Abdiwahab Ahmed
World
LOS ANGELES — California braced for further downpours and high winds after a series of powerful Pacific storms drenched the state, unleashing flash floods, mud and debris flows, and prompting emergency declarations from Los Angeles County to the San Francisco Bay Area. Fueled by an atmospheric river known as the Pineapple Express — a plume that channels deep tropical moisture from near Hawaii to the U.S. West Coast — the storms were forecast to drop roughly a month’s worth of rain on parts of the state, according to the…

Schools and parks closed as torrential rain batters eastern Spain

Abdiwahab Ahmed
World
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…