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Brit hols hotspot Majorca has beaches turned white with ice and is deluged by rain & hail… with MORE bad weather on way
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MAJORCA'S beaches have been turned white in an icy hail deluge - and more torrid weather is forecast for the island.
Beaches at Porto Cristo were hit with so much hail on Monday the normally golden sand looked like it was covered with snow.
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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 weather warnings are currently in place for Majorca and Menorca with thunderstorms forecast to bring more heavy rain and hail.
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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.
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Another clip showed rain so heavy that a tourist bus was forced to stop in its tracks.
Yellow warnings are also in place for inland Catalonia, Aragon, and Valencia.
Shock vids show hols hotspot Valencia SWAMPED with freak rain & hail as ‘cyclonic supercell’ storm pummels Spain
Thunderstorms, meanwhile, are predicted for Castille, Leon and the Pyrenees mountains.
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 are among the worst affected.
Spain has been hit by terrible weather in recent months with Valencia blitzed by freak rain and hail in a cyclonic supercell.
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It comes after Spain was hit by a massive blackout that affected most of the country - as well as Portugal - on April 28.
Airports and hospitals were shut down and trains ground to a halt across the Iberian peninsula.
Officials blamed a "rare atmospheric phenomenon" for the power cut.
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The freak weather will give residents chilling memories of last year's catastrophic flash floods in Spain that killed more than 200 people.
As many as 2,000 people around Valencia are still displaced from the late 2024 freak weather event.
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