page_title: Storm Gloria
section_title: Spain
hierarchical_section_title: Storm Gloria / Impact / Spain
caption_attribution_description: Català: Estat del pont del Petroli de Badalona després de sofrir els efectes del temporal Glòria, en el mes de gener de 2020.
context_page_description: Storm Gloria was a Mediterranean storm which affected eastern Spain and southernmost France with high winds and heavy rainfall. The system was named Gloria by the Spanish meteorological agency AEMET on 18 January, becoming the tenth named storm of the 2019–20 European windstorm season. The Free University of Berlin named the system Ilka.
  After making landfall and crossing northern Spain as a weak cyclone, Gloria stalled for several days over the western Mediterranean Sea, bringing heavy rainfall, snowfall and high winds to many areas across southern Europe and north Africa. Southeastern Spain and the Balearic Islands were particularly hard-hit by flooding associated with Gloria between 19 and 21 January. In total across Spain, 13 people were killed while four more remain missing.
context_section_description: After rapidly crossing the Atlantic, Gloria made landfall in northern Spain on 19 January with high winds and heavy rainfall, exacerbated by the system stalling off the east coast of Spain shortly after landfall. Heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding and mudslides which killed 14 people across the country and left three missing. Across the Balearic Islands, particularly on Mallorca, historic high winds caused widespread damage to houses, and many villages were evacuated. Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia and Andalusia on the southeastern mainland were all impacted by record-breaking rainfall totals and, over higher ground, heavy snowfall and blizzards.
  In Alcoi, Alicante, a 75-year-old woman was killed when high winds caused her house to collapse while she was inside sheltering from the storm. A 50-year-old man was killed in L'Ametlla de Mar, Catalonia after being washed away from the shore whilst fishing, while the body of a man was discovered inside a car washed away by flooding in the nearby town of Cabacés. In Ávila, a 63-year-old man was struck and killed by flying roof tiles.
  Gloria also caused a strong storm surge which caused flooding along the east coast of mainland Spain. The worst coastal flooding was reported around the Ebro river delta south of Barcelona, where the storm surge swept up to 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) inland through low-lying rice paddies. In Lloret de Mar and Tossa de Mar, sea foam whipped up by high winds moved inland from the beach, blocking streets. At the Port of Barcelona, waves crashed as high as 7 metres (23 ft) over defences, flooding coastal properties; several boats broke free from their moorings, and at least one sank entirely. Two people, including a British citizen, remain missing after being dragged out to sea on the island of Ibiza.
  Heavy snowfall caused problems over higher ground inland. Alicante Airport was closed after heavy snowfall blocked the runway, while heavy snowfall was also reported over the Pyrenees and near Madrid and Valencia, where a 54-year-old homeless woman died from hypothermia. Another hypothermia-related death was reported in Moixent, while blizzard conditions resulted in a single fatality in a road accident in Asturias. Severe weather conditions caused widespread school closures, with 130,000 students missing classes across Catalonia alone.
caption: Damage to Pont del Petroli, a commercial pier near Barcelona.
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