A prolonged snow blizzard blanketed much of Spain with an abnormal amount of snow over the weekend, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or at bus and train stations and airports that have shut down all services.
The National Weather Bureau reported that starting at 7am, snowfall in Madrid reached levels not seen in half a century. According to the weather agency AEMET, more than 50 centimetres of snow fell in the Spanish capital.
The bodies of a man and a woman were found by Andalusian ambulance services after their car was washed away by a flooded river near the town of Fuengirola. The Interior Ministry said a 54-year-old man was also found dead under a large pile of snow in Madrid. A homeless man died of hypothermia in the northern city of Zaragoza, local police reported.
More than half of Spain’s provinces remained under severe weather warnings due to storm Filomena on Saturday evening, seven of them with the highest alert level. In Madrid, for the first time since the system was introduced four decades ago, authorities have issued a red alert and asked the military to rescue people from vehicles trapped in the back streets of the city’s main arteries.
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