New weather warnings issued in Spain

It was a tricky night because it didn’t stop raining ... we had never seen so much rain,

the mayor of Cullera, Jordi Mayor, told public broadcaster TVE

Everyone is pitching in to clean up and some shops are opening as usual,

he added

In general terms, what we know is that, in the context of climate change, these types of intense and exceptional, rare rainfall events are going to become more frequent and more intense and, therefore, destructive.

Dr Ernesto Rodríguez Camino, Senior State Meteorologist and member of Spanish Meteorological Association, said

The flash floods in Spain are another terrible reminder of the changing and more chaotic weather we are experiencing as a result of climate change.

Dr Jess Neumann, Associate Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading, added

No doubt about it, these explosive downpours were intensified by climate change

Dr Friederike Otto, Lead of World Weather Attribution at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, said

Practically all the streets" were submerged, stones and material were swept across the town and the civil protection headquarters were flooded, sparking a frantic clean-up effort

Mayor added

We must ensure that we are prepared when the next disaster strikes, because we are already living in an age of crisis,

said European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic,

Juan Manuel Morenopresident

Today Malaga is paralyzed... if there is intense rain in a short period of time, there are no capacities or infrastructure that can cope,

Andalusia's President Juanma Moreno told reporters

It hasn't been exaggerated at all,

added Ida Maria Ledesma Martin, a 39-year-old social educator who said police had warned residents that morning

There’s nothing to lose now,

Carlos Molto, a resident of the Picanya suburb of Valencia city, told local television station A Punt

We are placing sandbags to replace the floodgates that the previous floods tore down,

Antonio Ojeda, a municipal worker, told Reuters

We’re closely monitoring the new arrival of intense rains that have reached our country as the consequence of a new isolated depression at high levels,

said Rubén del Campo, an Aemet spoksesperson

This test is totally unnecessary,

said Dolors Monserrat, the PP’s European parliament spokesperson

It might be good to think about how undermining the credibility of the meteorological agency, and not taking seriously the risk warnings that were sent, may have catastrophic consequences for the people,

she added

We are cleaning so that the water can flow if it rains,

he said

Later will come the political debate about what things we must improve in the face of this climate emergency,

he said on Monday as his government passed a second emergency relief package worth almost €3.8bn (£3.15bn).

We are on a road to ruin,

the former oil executive said in his address

A failure to act will lead to increasingly frequent and dangerous extreme weather events,

said the world body