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Yesterday afternoon and on the evening of December 4, 2016 enormous quantities of rain fell on the Costa del Sol in Andalusia in Spain.

Malaga, Estepona and Alhaurin de la Torre, one woman died in Estepona (province of Malaga) and one Electrician died at the Linea de la Concepcion in the province of Cadiz.

Garages and houses flooded by these torrential rains of 136 liters per square meters in Estepona in a very short time (4 hours ).

The most affected cities are those of the east coast of Malaga and Cadiz with more than 800 calls to 112 (emergency number).

The AP-7 motorway was even interrupted. Other secondary roads in Cartama and Alhaurin de la Torre were also cut.

The situation will return to normal on December 5 of 2016 and Guadalhorce River will return in bed!

Other roads and incidents took place on December 4 of 2016 in Andalusia in the provinces of Sevilla and Huelva, but with less severity.

The train knows disturbances in the provinces of Sevilla and Cadiz (High-speed line).

There where no floods like that in Malaga history, the biggest before was in 1989, where it rain 24 days between November and December.

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On Sunday 27 November 2016 a huge tornado has been seen and filmed by many persons on the Mediterranean Sea in front of the community of Valencia.

This happened in El Perello between Valencia and Cullera, no victim.

Other tornadoes were recorded in the day of Sunday but it is this one with a diameter of 2 km was the biggest.

Picture of a Tornado near Cullera

The weather on the weekend of 26 and 27 November is very disturbed throughout the Iberian Peninsula from north to south and from east to west.

Also to be mentioned the disturbances all weekend in Spain and especially in this region usually with a more mild weather ... but winter arrives ... And the first ski resort of Spain opened its doors also this week End - 1 hour of Granada in the Sierra Nevada.

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