Schools will be closed on Wednesay after the State Meteorological Agency placed parts of Valencia on orange alert on Tuesday night, as well as Catalonia in the northeast, Andalusia in the south and the Balearic Islands.

Two weeks after flash floods wreaked havoc in eastern Spain, parts of the country remain on high alert as a new weather system is expected to bring heavy rain and colder temperatures.

Two weeks after deadly floods, Spain braces for more heavy rains, with multiple provinces under extreme alert as the risk of flooding rises.

Spaniards braced for further heavy rain and storms on Wednesday, just two weeks after rain and flash floods prompted rivers to overflow in Valencia and other parts of Spain, killing more than 200 people and destroying homes and property.

Two weeks after flash floods caused devastation in eastern Spain, several areas of the country are on alert, with a new weather front expected to bring torrential rain and low temperatures. Eastern and southern Mediterranean areas are again the most vulnerable,

AEMET forecasts as much as 120 mm of rain in 12 hours and although the storm is not expected to be as powerful as the one two weeks ago, it could be a blow for towns still trying to recover.