Various rescue operations have taken place in northern Spain to free people trapped in their vehicles in the snowy weather while 28 provinces remain on alert for freezing temperatures.
Two people have died and many have been injured as Spain battled a weekend of stormy weather, and the worst might not be over as parts of the country remain on high alert for avalanches and snow.
Winter definitely arrived in Spain over the weekend as temperatures plummeted, prompting the national weather agency to issue weather alerts across the country.
Just as snow finally arrives, several Spanish ski resorts have had to close their pistes because of poor weather conditions. Many other provinces across Spain are also on high alert because of freezing temperatures.
Temperatures in Barcelona were 3.7ºC above average, the hottest since records began in 1914, during a sweltering October in which Catalan beaches were packed with people enjoying the unseasonal sunshine.
After a period of unusually warm weather across much of the country, Spain is now set for cooler temperatures with a cold front bringing rain by the bucketful and even the first snows of the autumn.
Weather warnings have been issued for parts of eastern Spain including Valencia and Alicante on Tuesday with temperatures expected to reach highs nearly ten degrees above average for this time of year.
Heavy rain caused chaos in the Canary Island city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on Sunday with one woman dying after she found herself trapped underneath a parked car during flash flooding.
A massive storm over the Atlantic Ocean will bring gale force winds and huge waves up to six metres (16 feet) to Spain's coasts from Wednesday on, officials have warned.
Heavy rains in recent days have made travel on Madrid's extensive underground rail system a headache for commuters, with pictures of the chaos flooding social media sites.
Fed up with the recent heatwave? There's good news coming your way as temperatures will fall as much as 10 degrees in some parts of Spain in coming days.
Spain is set to see summer arrive with a bang on Monday with temperatures in parts of the south of the country expected to get close to 40C (104 Fahrenheit).
Parts of Spain are currently suffering through their most intense dry spell in a century and a half with Valencia and Alicante among the worst affected regions. Future predictions are not too rosy either, meteorologists warn.
Two people have died and six are still missing after a Portuguese fishing ship sunk off the coast of Spain on Monday morning, Spanish press are reporting.
Calm returned to Spain's Atlantic coast on Wednesday after several days of massive waves in the region. Here The Local rounds up some of the best images of the latest storms.
Spain's northern coast hasn't seen the last of the destructive tidal waves and gale-force winds that have caused havoc over the past few days. Storm Petra is now on its way, a freak weather occurrence labelled by meteorologists as an "explosive cyclogenesis": the perfect storm.
