Eyewitness footage captured cars stranded on flooded streets and a vehicle being swept into the sea by rising floodwaters in Spain’s Gran Canaria on Monday (March 3). Residents in the Telde region later joined forces with emergency services to clean streets blanketed in mud. This video contains language some people may consider offensive.

On Tuesday, Gran Canaria’s airport closed due to water accumulation on the runways, however, one runway was back up and running within half an hour, Spain’s airport group Aena said. By early afternoon, Gran Canaria Airport had both runways in operation and flight proceedings were running as planned.

Published images show cars washed away by the floods in Gran Canaria, with its streets become raging rivers as water levels rise. Piles of mud and dirt have covered the streets as torrential rain battered the popular holiday island. The entire island of Lanzarote - the easternmost island of the archipelago - is also under a weather warning.

On 2 March, the Canaries’ government issued a severe weather alert, warning of heavy rains as well as hail and snow, while AEMET suggests the storms could last until at least 5 March. The Spanish Tourist Office UK said: “We have spoken to our partners in Gran Canaria with regards to recent localised flooding in the area of Telde.

Torrential rainfall turned streets into fast flowing rivers in parts of the popular holiday destination of Grand Canaria on Monday. The town of Telde in the east of the island was particularly hard hit with heavy downpours.

Heavy rainfall caused flooding and chaos on Gran Canaria on Monday. The heavy rain was so strong that it washed cars into the sea. There has so far been no news of deaths or injuries. In the higher areas of the Canary Island,