{"id":239607,"date":"2025-03-18T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/?p=239607"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:36:57","slug":"spain-flash-floods-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/spain-flash-floods-2025","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Rage in Spain: Flash Floods Sweep Away Vans and Force 350 Families to Flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mass Evacuation in Malaga, Spain! Massive Flooding in Murcia Sweeps Away Cars and People<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231110\" src=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp\" alt=\"Floods in Spain\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp 1920w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=168,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp 300w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=600,height=337,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp 600w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=431,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp 768w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1536,height=862,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp 1536w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=150,height=84,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/spain.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Malaga, Spain \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013 Southern Spain is underwater, and it\u2019s a scene straight out of a disaster flick! Torrential rains have unleashed chaos, with flash floods forcing officials to evacuate over 350 homes, shut down highways, and even cancel school on Tuesday. The Campanillas River near Malaga turned into a raging beast, bursting its banks and sweeping away everything in its path\u2014including a van caught on camera tumbling like a toy in Almogia, Malaga province.<\/p>\n<h2>Rivers Rage in Spain<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mass Evacuation in Malaga, Spain! Massive Flooding in Murcia Sweeps Away Cars and People\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XfmTxzS46VE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Late Monday night, regional authorities sounded the alarm, ordering 365 households in the village of Campanillas to grab what they could and get out. Families spent a sleepless night huddled in a municipal sports hall, while floodwaters swallowed streets and homes. Andalusia\u2019s interior chief, Antonio Sanz, didn\u2019t mince words: 19 rivers across the region are on red alert, with the mayhem spreading from Malaga\u2019s soaked southern coast to inland zones near Sevilla and Cordoba. Forty highways and several rail lines? Closed. Roads? Submerged. It\u2019s a full-on aquatic takeover!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Severe flooding in Aguilas, Murcia in Spain this morning&#8230;.\ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Km9TnnSnmD\">pic.twitter.com\/Km9TnnSnmD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Volcaholic \ud83c\udf0b (@volcaholic1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/volcaholic1\/status\/1901975388533702791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Malaga\u2019s first rodeo with wild weather. Just four months ago, in November, the same area got pummeled when a massive storm system drowned eastern Spain, killing 233\u2014mostly in Valencia. After years of bone-dry drought, southern Spain\u2019s been drenched for two weeks straight, and this latest deluge pushed rivers and reservoirs past their breaking point. The soil couldn\u2019t soak up another drop, and now the region\u2019s paying the price.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are pointing fingers at climate change, and it\u2019s hard to argue. Spain\u2019s been flip-flopping between scorching summers, endless droughts, and now these biblical downpours. Scientists say it\u2019s a textbook case of weather whiplash\u2014dry spells that bake the land brittle, followed by storms that hit like a sledgehammer. Government officials agree: this isn\u2019t just bad luck; it\u2019s a new normal.<\/p>\n<p>With more rain in the forecast, Andalusia\u2019s on edge, and officials are scrambling to keep people safe. Stay tuned, because this flood story is still rising!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/italy-s-florence-drowns-2025\">Italy\u2019s Florence Drowns in a Month\u2019s Rain Overnight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe flooding in M\u00e1laga and Murcia, Spain, has caused evacuations, road closures, and emergency rescues as rivers overflowed due to heavy rainfall from storm Laurence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6649],"class_list":["post-239607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nature-disasters","tag-flood"],"acf":[],"wpml_data":{"original_post_id":239607,"trid":"1434055","lang":"en","source_lang":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}