Spain activates rare 'orange' alert for UK tourists and issues warning

New maps and charts show the startling weather shift across the holiday destination, which is a go-to for Brits.
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UK tourists in Spain have been warned over a major storm sweeping the European Union holiday hotspot as we head deeper into September. New maps and charts show the startling weather shift across the holiday destination, which is a go-to for Brits.

AEMET has upgraded many of its weather warnings for this weekend (September 21 and 22). Areas with orange alerts - which are the second highest level - tomorrow are the eastern coast from Valencia to Castellon, Tarragona, Menorca, Majorca, Ibiza.

Spain's state weather agency (Aemet) has activated yellow warnings for rain and storms in the Axarquia, Guadalhorce valley and Costa del Sol areas, which includes Malaga city. It will remain in force from midnight tonight to 8.59am and it is expected up to 15mm could fall in one hour during this time.

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Rain will disappear as the day progresses and by midday there will be clearings except in the far west of the province. Temperatures will be reasonable, especially the minimum, as the mercury in the city, for example, is expected to fluctuate between 20 and 25C on Saturday, according to AEMET.

AEMET says Sunday is expected to be even warmer, with a maximum temperature of 28C in the capital of the Costa del Sol. The sea water temperature will be around 24 degrees and the maximum temperature in the rest of the province will range between 23 and 25C.

"The presence of the anticyclone over Europe will induce a easterly flow that will provide humidity, while the formation of a low to the west of the Peninsula will attract humid winds from the south and west over the Atlantic slope," said AEMET.

"The combination of these elements will lead to the formation of locally strong and very strong showers accompanied of storms that will progressively affect a good part of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands during these days."