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Severe flooding in eastern Spain as UK gets first named storm

Pego, near Alicante, took 632 millimetres of rain in 36 hours as Storm Adam hit, while Storm Austen began battering England and Wales.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn eastern Spain, Storm Adam dropped six hundred thirty-two millimetres of rain on Pego in thirty-six hours, and four hundred thirty of those fell in just six.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFour hundred thirty in six hours. That's a lot of rain for one afternoon.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEleven helicopters rescued two hundred eighty people around Oliva and Pego on Monday, and authorities confined a hundred forty-five municipalities before lifting most of those orders.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDid it break the record?

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNot quite.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOliva's eight hundred seventeen litres in a day, in November nineteen eighty-seven, still holds the Spanish daily record, and Euronews ranks this one among the most intense ever recorded.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's a runner-up with a body count of rooftops.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMeanwhile, Storm Austen has become Britain's first named storm of winter, with gusts across England and Wales.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSpain got Adam, and England got Austen, which at least arrives with manners.

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