Storm Flora: wind in Comunitat Valenciana and Andalucía, 13–14 December 2018

13 December 2018 to 14 December 2018. Updated 26 October 2026.

AEMET named this storm Flora on 12 December 2018.

Over 2 days, 13 of Spain's 182 warning zones had an orange or red warning for wind: 23 zone-days at orange or red, 0 of them red. The day with the most zones at orange or red was 13 December, with 13 zones.

13 December was the day with the most people in zones under an orange or red warning: 3.3 million people live there (INE municipal register, 2025).

How it compares

• It is number 109 of 119 episodes since June 2018 by zone-days at orange or red.
• Among the 26 wind episodes, it is number 23.
• Until then, no wind episode in the archive had been this widespread.

Day by day

Zones with a warning each day, at their highest level that day.

The zones

And 89 more zones with yellow warnings only.

What AEMET's stations measured

The most measured in the zones with an orange or red warning, on their warning days: a 129 km/h gust at Láujar de Andarax (Poniente y Almería Capital) on 13 December.

For each zone, the highest value its AEMET stations measured on the episode's warning days (the lowest, for the low temperature), with the station and the day. Rain from 07:00 to 07:00 UTC; gust: the day's strongest. It is what the zone's stations measured, not every town, and a measurement, like a warning, is not damage.

How AEMET's warnings unfolded

The orange warning reached 23 zone-days, and AEMET always issued it ahead of time (median: 23 h). The first warning of any level for those same days had come a median 12 h earlier.

And 8 more zone-days.

AEMET's issue times, in mainland Spain time (Canary Islands in island time). Notice is the time from issue to the first hour the warning covered; a warning issued “for the current hour” runs from the hour it is published.

What this says and what it doesn't

A warning is an AEMET forecast, not a measurement or a damage report: it says a threshold is expected to be exceeded in a zone. A warning is not damage; a zone is not a building.

A zone-day is one warning zone with a warning on one day. Ten zones at orange on the same day make ten zone-days. A day with several warnings in one zone counts once, at its highest level.

Each zone has its own thresholds, so an orange heat warning in Asturias doesn't mean the same temperature as in Córdoba. More in how warnings work.

To cite: “Climaviso, from AEMET warnings”.

Source: official AEMET warnings, collected by Climaviso since June 2018.

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