ONE man has died and extensive damage has been reported due to gale-force winds and torrential rain throughout the country since Thursday.
During the past four days, 30 rivers have burst their banks and at least one person injured due to falling objects.
Firefighters from Pamplona, searching for a missing 70-year-old man, found his body inside his van in the river Odrón in Los Arcos, in the northern region of Navarra.
His vehicle was swept away by the current after the river overflowed due to the downpours.
The rivers which have burst their banks so far are in Castilla y León and the Basque Country, and although most of the south and east has escaped the rain, gales battering Andalucía, Murcia and Valencia have barely dropped since Thursday, reaching their worst on Friday.
A man driving through El Ejido (Almería province) was injured when a lamp post fell on his car and firefighters giving him first aid had to put him in a collar until the ambulance could get there.
Sea traffic has been interrupted due to winds of over 80 kilometres per hour in the Strait of Gibraltar, and ferries travelling to and from the Balearic Islands have been grounded for several hours at a time.
The Valencia region was worst affected by the gales, with the least violent winds recorded in Orihuela, at 73 kilometres per hour.
In Vilafranca (Castellón province), gusts reached 115 kilometres per hour, and most of the three provinces remain on yellow or orange alert with the likelihood of flights being disrupted or delayed.
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