A WARNING has been issued for Irish holidaymakers in two sunshine hotspots that are being battered by storms.
Parts of Spain and Portugal are facing into more bad weather as the fourth storm in twelve days is set to hit the countries.
The IPMA, Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere, have named the new storm set to hit over the coming days.
Storm Martinho will batter the tourist havens with widespread rain and strong winds from tomorrow and into Thursday.
Ireland’snAlan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather issued an update on social media.
He warned: “Spain and Portugal have named yet another storm!
“Thursday, another storm in this long series will be Martinho, bringing widespread rain and strong winds. Four storms in twelve days.”
Across mainland Portugal various orange and yellow rain and wind warnings kick in from tomorrow.
Regions impacted include popular travel destinations such as Lisbon and Porto.
In Lisbon, a yellow rain warning will kick in from just after 6am and a yellow wind warning from 9am.
The wind warning will be upgraded to an orange alert come 9pm with winds of 110kph to hit.
There are also costal event warnings dotted across Portugal and autonomous island region Madeira with waves reaching heights of 10 metres at their maximum.
And across Spain several wind and rain alerts are also in place.
In the areas surrounding Madrid moderate rain warnings are already in place as Spain continues to be battered by heavy rains.
Around Barcelona similar warnings are active as well as costal alerts for three metre waves.
In Valencia an alert is in place with a one-hour accumulated precipitation of 30 mm expected.
The worst of the weather warnings in place for Spain are for tomorrow.
LATEST BLOW
This new storm is just the latest for Spaniards.
Just days ago the usually sunny country was ravaged by Storm Konrad and they are still reeling from Storm Laurence.
Wind speeds of 70kph, heavy rainfall and dangerous wave heights hit the hotspot.
And just two weeks ago floods devastated the country with cars washed away in deadly floods and locals told to stay inside.
The torrential rain battered Gran Canaria, Spain earlier this month.
One terrifying video from the start of March showed a vehicle being swept away into the sea at the Playa Salinetas Beach.
And the flooding left a mud and dirt covering roads and pavements across Gran Canaria.
