ALERT: Irish tourists off to Spain for mid-term hit with rare weather warning

Irish people making the most of the mid-term break with a holiday to Spain may be impacted by rare weather warnings that run right through until Halloween.

Parts of the country, including the Costa del Sol popular with Irish holidaymakers, will be be hit with storm and a deluge of rain with up to 150mm likely to fall in some areas.

Th equivalent of our Status Orange warnings have been issued by Spanish weather service Aemet. The warnings are for rain and storms and have been issued for the Valencia region.

"Locally strong and/or persistent showers and thunderstorms in in the Balearic Islands, Girona, Albacete and coastal and pre-coastal areas of Tarragona, Castellón, Murcia, Almería, Málaga and the Strait of Gibraltar," Aemet said for Monday, October 29.

Yellow warnings are in place for heavy rain and storms on Tuesday in parts of eastern mainland Spain the Balearic Islands.

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Ibiza could be hit with winds of up to 70km/h and waves of up to 4m. Majorca and Menorca are set to endure gusts of up to 60km/h in coastal regions.

Aemet warned: “The Peninsula and the Balearic Islands are likely to continue with unstable weather under the influence of low pressure. With a margin of uncertainty, precipitation and storms are likely in the southern half, areas of the northeast, the Strait, the Alboran and the Balearic Islands, without ruling out neighbouring areas.

"The peak day of this episode is expected on Tuesday 29, with the highest probability of these intense precipitations and storms expected in the Strait area, Eastern Andalusia, Murcia, east of Castilla-La Mancha and the Valencian Community. Due to the intensity and persistence of rainfall, it is likely that in these areas 120-150 mm may be locally exceeded.

"Locally very strong and persistent rainfall will affect western Andalusia, the Strait area, a large part of the Iberian system, northern Valencia and Catalonia. In a way less intense and more dispersed showers are expected to extend to other areas of the interior of the peninsula, leaving the extreme northwest, extreme southeast, Cantabrian area and the Balearic Islands with much less impact."

The rare weather is the result of a DANA (Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos) which translates to isolated depression at high levels.

According to one weather expert: "A DANA is a type of weather phenomenon in which a "pocket" of cold air in the upper atmosphere separates from the main stream and sweeps over a warmer air mass. This process can result in severe weather, including heavy rains, and flooding."