MAJORCA’S beaches have turned white in an icy hail deluge and more torrid weather is forecast for island.
Beaches at were hit with so much hail on Monday the normally golden sand looked like it was covered with snow.
The holiday hotspot was also hit with floods after 50mm of rain – an entire month’s worth – fell in just an hour.
The rain was so heavy that waterfalls formed in Formentor and Sa Calobra.
Cars drove through door-deep flooding which had turned streets into rivers after the water wasn’t quickly being soaked up by the dry ground.
Yellow warnings are currently in place for and for thunderstorms that will bring rain and hail.
Some 30mm is expected to fall in just an hour in central and western parts of Majorca.
That warning is set to end at 5pm UK time tonight.
Despite the wet weather, temperatures on the island climbed to 27C in the oppressive humidity.
Footage posted to social media showed heavy rain hammering a pool and backyard that was already covered in thick hail.
Another clip showed rain so heavy that a tourist bus was stopped in its tracks on the road.
Yellow warnings are also in place for inland , , and .
Thunderstorms, meanwhile, are in place for Castille and Leon and the .
On Monday, an orange warning was put in place for Majorca before the heavy weather hit.
Towns such as Manacor, Sant Llorenç, and Sa Pobla have been worst affected.
Spain has been hit by terrible weather in recent months with Valencia hit by .
It comes after Spain was hit by athat affected most of the country – as well as Portugal – on April 28.
across the Iberian peninsula.
Officials blamed a “rare atmospheric phenomenon”;;for thepowercut.
The freakwill give residentsflash floods inthat killed more than 200 people.
As many as 2,000 people around Valencia are still displaced from the late 2024 freak weather, according to the Housing Department.
