There were 44 diversions to other airports from Madrid. Barajas is not due to reopen until at least Sunday evening, and all flights have been cancelled for now. Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport was closed, meaning no flights in or out, and trains were unable to leave or enter the capital. Storm Filomena totally paralyzed Madrid on Friday and Saturday.
“On January 16, 1945, it fell to -10, -11✬.” The high in Madrid on Monday could be as low as 0✬. The incoming cold snap could see temperatures as low as -10✬ in Madrid, “something that’s really never been seen before and that only happened on one occasion in the last 100 years,” explains Del Campo. Ten more will be on yellow alert, the lowest, for snow of up to 12 centimeters: Palencia, Asturias, Lleida, Huelva, Sevilla, Huesca, Barcelona, Girona, Badajoz and La Rioja. Another six provinces – Basque Country, Navarre, Burgos and Cantabria – will be on orange alert, the second of a scale of three, with 30 centimeters or more of snow forecast. Teruel, Zaragoza, Tarragona and Castellón will be on red weather alerts today, the highest of the scale. Showers are also expected in the south of the peninsula, with snow likely in the south of Badajoz and the north of Huelva at altitudes of just 300 or 500 meters. Hospital Gregorio Marañon in Madrid on Saturday. “In the south of Catalonia, inland Castellón, Bajo Aragón de Teruel and the Ebro in Zaragoza there could be more than 20 centimeters in 24 hours,” explained Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for Spain’s AEMET state weather agency. Storm Filomena has caused this situation thanks to a mass of cold air that has been over the peninsula for weeks now, and is due to leave more snowfall over the east and north of the country before moving off toward the Mediterranean.Īragón and the southern inland area of Catalonia will see snow this morning, as well as Navarre, La Rioja, parts of the Basque Country and Cantabria, where as many as 10 centimeters could fall. While the snowfall came to end in Madrid on Saturday, after practically 30 uninterrupted hours, a complicated day will be seen in much of Spain on Sunday, with more snow forecast. The resources used to combat the snow, which had been expected, were improvised by the region and city councils, with snow plows and fire crews recruited at the last minute. For now, neither the regional nor municipal authorities have come up with a coordinated plan of action, apart from leaving on the heating in schools ahead of the return of students, which has been delayed from Monday to Wednesday for now. This situation is likely to continue as the cold snap takes hold, with the lowest temperatures ever seen in the capital expected to arrive. Madrid’s hospitals were left practically cut off and the emergency services were unable to move around. The weather event left Madrid’s streets strewn with trees that had snapped under the weight of the snow, and practically all of the city’s streets blocked by snow that will turn into ice barring a massive operation to lay down salt. The streets of Madrid covered in snow after Storm Filomena. A homeless person died from the conditions in Calatayud (Zaragoza). The conditions left four people dead across Spain, with a couple swept away by a river in Mijas, Málaga, and the body of a 54-year-old man found under the snow in Zarzalejo, Madrid. Madrid warns of more school closures in wake of Storm Filomena
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