Britain issued travel warning for Spain as RED weather notice issued for 91-mile stretch of coastline – including Alicante and Benidorm

Thousands of Britons in Costa Blanca have been instructed to prepare to face an unprecedented danger across the region on Friday before a deluge of torrential rain arrives.

Spain is on its most intense weather alert with Storm Alice on its path. Alicante will have a red alert issued by the Spanish weather agency, warning the people and the tourists that the rains might be disastrous.

The emergency services in Ibiza and Formentera have also strengthened their response capacities following the orange weather warning on storms and heavy rains that were issued to the islands.

The government has encouraged tourists who visit the Mediterranean areas of Spain to monitor weather changes and follow their government directive.

In a statement Aemet said: “There is a high uncertainty in the position of Alice and it’s interaction with surface flows, which will determine the areas of greatest adversity each day, so detailed monitoring of forecast updates and warnings is recommended over the next few days.”

Since early Friday morning, there will be heavy downpours along the Tarrangona, Barcelona and Valencia coasts- where the tourist hot spots such as Benidorm are. These will be dispersed all day over to Ibiza and Formentera, the remaining part of Murcia, the eastern half of Andalucia and southern 
Castilla La Mancha.

The emerging storm system would even cause catastrophic floods along the Mediterranean coastline – just a little less than a year after Valencia suffered its worst natural disaster in recent history with 220 people losing their lives in flash flooding.

According to the meteorologists, the rain is likely to fall beyond the 140 millimeter threshold in 12 hours, and Valencia will be the most affected region of the rainfall.

The weather service has issued alerts to various regions of the Spanish coast, such as Murcia and the Balearics, of which it expects to receive very heavy and prolonged rainfall until Monday.

Last week, the European Commission also declared that it would give €945 million (€820 million) in recovery aid to the affected areas on top of Spain providing €2.3 billion of reconstruction funds on its own.

The overall European aid package will amount to some €1.6 billion with another €645 million being diverted off the Spanish current cohesion funds.

The response to the management of the 2008 flood disasters in Valencia is under investigation due to the fact that the locals are still demonstrating against what they see as a lack of warning by the authorities.

Scientists blame climate change, which causes more severe and frequent occurrence of such extreme weather events, as warm air in the atmosphere allows waters of the quickly heating Mediterranean sea to take up more water.