Mallorca has requested the help of the military emergency aid unit UME to deal with the consequences of winter storm “Juliette”. Although the storm went east towards Italy on Wednesday, emergency services were sometimes only able to reach people who were snowed in at higher altitudes after hours. It had already started to snow on Monday and the white splendor piled up at altitudes of over 800 meters up to 1.4 meters in places. There were also stormy winds and high waves on the coasts.
What initially triggered enthusiasm and drove hundreds of onlookers into the mountains gradually developed into a nightmare. Almost 100 day-trippers were snowed in at the Lluc monastery without cell phone reception and electricity. After all, the place of pilgrimage has enough places to sleep and food. On Tuesday evening, mountain rescue reached the monastery in the north of the island. Most of those snowed in spent the night there, as reported by regional newspapers.
It was also unusually cold in other parts of Spain, with night frosts down to minus ten degrees in the Pyrenees. In the northwest of the country, according to the national weather service Aemet, snow was still to be expected in some higher-lying regions, which turned into rain at lower altitudes. Where the sun was shining, however, it was already pleasantly warm during the day – for example with 18 degrees in Málaga in the very south of the country.
