{"id":232030,"date":"2026-02-05T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=232030"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:50:14","slug":"storm-leonardo-floods-streets-in-spain-and-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/232030\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Leonardo floods streets in Spain and Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Floods brought by Storm Leonardo battered the Iberian peninsula on Wednesday, forcing thousands of evacuation, shutting schools and cancelling trains in Spain and Portugal, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

In Portugal, a man in his 60s was killed.<\/p>\n

The country’s Environment Minister expressed concern over the situation, noting that conditions are expected to peak on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to meteorologists, the weather is expected to continue worsening through Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

In Spain, weather agency AEMET placed parts of the southern region of Andalusia under the highest red alert due to the “extraordinary” rain, warning of floods and landslides.<\/p>\n

Around 3,500 people had been evacuated in Andalusia, and hundreds of soldiers had been deployed to assist rescue services.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Floods brought by Storm Leonardo battered the Iberian peninsula on Wednesday, forcing thousands of evacuation, shutting schools and cancelling trains in Spain and Portugal, Euronews writes. In Portugal, a man in his 60s was killed. The country’s Environment Minister expressed concern over the situation, noting that conditions are expected to peak on Thursday. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":232012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232033,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232030\/revisions\/232033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}