Four people have died as a result of severe weather conditions, which battered the north and east of the country. Cataluña was one of the areas which was worst affected by the storms, where two people were washed out to sea by enormous waves, the first whilst walking through the Port in Barcelona, and the other a man who was driving along the breakwater when his car was dragged into the sea.

The fourth death occurred when a lady was washed off some rocks by a massive wave in the port of Gandía, Valencia. Meanwhile, strong winds and heavy snow fall also caused chaos on Spain's roads. Some 54 cars were involved in a multiple pile-up on the A8 in Muskiz in Vizcaya, when a freak hail storm impaired visibility. 27 people were injured during the collision and the road had to be closed for several hours. Fallen rocks close to the Montserrat monastery in Barcelona blocked the access road and resulted in 1 500 having to be evacuated by cable car, whilst seven further mountain passes were forced to remain closed to traffic because of the snow in Asturias and Burgos, and four in Cantabria. Roads were also affected by snowfall in Ávila and Girona. Finally, as many as 15 boats sank in the rough seas that battered the Catalan coast. Six boats were lost at Portbou in Girona and three more in L'Escala, where 1 500m of the Paseo Maritime also disappeared.