Six regions - Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Navarra, Aragón and Castilla León - remain on orange level weather alert today, a red alert has kept most of Galicia's fishing fleet in port since yesterday, and a motorist was killed in Asturias when his car was buried in a landslide near Belmonte.

Tyre chains are required to cross around thirty mountain passes and a number of minor roads have been closed. 

Heavy rain in the Basque Country yesterday caused the Urumea river to burst its banks, flooding parts of Hernani and levels are reported to be dangerously high in the Oria, Urola and Deba valleys.

In Irún, twelve cars were buried after the collapse of a retaining wall on the calle Irún, though nobody was injured, while a rockfall near Castro Urdiales in Cantabria caused the temporary closure of the Bilbao-bound carriageway of the A-8 freeway.

A number of tornadoes were fleetingly sighted off the Balearic Islands yesterday though they blew themselves out before reaching land.

The wintry conditions are forecast to last for the next few days at least with another cold front expected at the weekened.

Temperatures set to plunge
By: thinkSPAIN
Monday, November 24, 2008

Six regions in the northern third of Spain have been placed on severe weather alert with gale force winds and snow forecast for Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Castilla León, Aragón and Navarra.

The cold front is expected to spread south as the week progresses, bringing temperatures as low as minus five degrees Centigrade.