Videos show roads transformed into rivers in Spanish holiday hotspots

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As countries on the eastern Mediterranean experienced an early heatwave, Spain's Costa Blanca region and the island of Majorca were both inundated by Storm Tamara.

Dramatic new footage of the devastating floods that hit Spain in recent days has emerged, showing roads turning into rivers and cars being washed away.

And in Murcia, rain lashed down hard, with several videos posted online showing fast moving water flowing through the southeastern city's streets. This clip, posted online on Wednesday, showed how a 100-foot wide street was completely flooded, with a river of water gushing from one end to the other Hail was reported to have fallen in some parts of the Valencian community, which includes the provinces of Alicante and Valencia.The weather has forced emergency services to respond to hundreds of calls.

Video shows rainwater flooding one of Palma airport's runways on Tuesday, with a member of staff jokingly diving into the water to show how deep it was 'It was hot on the plane and the cabin crew gave us no information at all,' he told the publication. 'In fact they lied to us. We must have waited for two hours.

Water is seen gushing down the streets of Murcia on Monday as the south-eastern region of Spain was hit by torrential rainThe storms come at a time when many Brits will be jetting off for holidays to escape what has so-far been a disappointing spring. 'Over the next couple of nights we're actually expecting to see a little bit of frost in a few places. This will mainly be across Scotland and possibly into northern England and Northern Ireland where temperatures could get down to around freezing.'In Greece, officials were forced to close the Athens Acropolis during the hottest hours of Wednesday as the season's earliest-ever heatwave swept the country, prompting school closures and health warnings.

Meteorologists have noted this is the earliest heatwave - which for Greece is temperatures exceeding 38 degrees Celsius for at least three days - on record. And in Greece's second city Thessaloniki, teachers and pupils said annual school exams were held under difficult conditions. 500 miles away in Cyprus, aircraft from Greece and Jordan were helping Cypriot authorities battle a large wildfire in the southwestern Paphos region believed to have been started by an illegal landfill, officials said Wednesday.

 

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