At least five people have died amid severe flooding in eastern Spain, where 145 municipalities in Valencia and Alicante were placed under a temporary lockdown affecting approximately 850,000 people, The Guardian reported.
The report said 500 people had been rescued and 2,100 evacuated. Rainfall reached 632mm in 36 hours in Pego, Alicante, including 430mm in six hours, while the Valencian town of Olivia recorded 600mm in 24 hours, The Guardian reported.
More than 130 incidents were recorded in Ibiza, including standing water at the airport that caused some flights to be diverted or suspended, according to the report. Conditions were improving across Valencia and Alicante, but local disruption was expected to continue after Storm Adam brought heavy rain to the region earlier in the week.
Storm Austen is bringing damaging winds to south-west England and Wales, as well as south-west Ireland and northern France. The Met Office issued a yellow severe weather warning for strong winds across much of south-west England and southern Wales, with gusts of 50-60mph expected more widely and stronger winds possible on exposed coasts, The Guardian reported in an earlier forecast.
Storm Boelo was expected to track across northern Scotland, bringing further rain and damaging winds and increasing the risk of flooding, the latest report said.