Civil Protection warns of heavy rain in the Canary Islands and western mainland Spain from Friday

The Secretaría General de Protección Civil y Emergencias, Spain's civil protection and emergencies authority, issued an alert on Thursday for a storm system with rain and thunderstorms that will affect the Canary Islands and western mainland Spain between November 6 and at least November 10, Estrella Digital reported. The instability would lose intensity from Wednesday the 11th, according to the same report.

According to AEMET, Spain's state meteorological agency, cited by Libertad Digital, La Palma is the island where locally heavy rain is expected this Friday, which could also reach El Hierro, La Gomera and Tenerife. By the end of Saturday, showers could be heavy or very heavy and accompanied by thunderstorms in the west of the archipelago, and on Sunday they would spread to the rest of the islands. Libertad Digital adds that AEMET is not yet clear on the exact position of the low-pressure system.

The Canary Islands government declared a pre-alert for rain across the island of La Palma from 00:00 this Friday, with no end time, according to Libertad Digital. The Dirección General de Emergencias, the regional emergencies directorate, warns that showers could exceed 15 liters per square meter in one hour.

On the mainland, the areas where the most rain is forecast are Galicia, Extremadura, southwestern Andalusia and the Sierra de Gredos, according to Estrella Digital, which also reports waves of up to 5 or 6 meters forecast on the western Galician coast from Sunday. These are forecasts, not measurements.

Civil Protection recommends avoiding beaches, breakwaters and seafront promenades, reducing speed on the roads and not crossing flooded stretches or approaching ravines and riverbeds.