On the east coast, Valencia remains subject to a yellow alert, in force until midnight, with up to 60mm of rain forecast in the space of 12 hours. Dozens of emergency callouts were reported overnight, mostly in areas worst-hit by the previous floods, which killed more than 200 people.

Spain's national weather service has issued alerts for strong or torrential rains along much of its Mediterranean coast as some of Malaga's mains streets started flooding this afternoon.