STORY: Footage from Portugal's Alcacer do Sal at daybreak on Friday (February 6) showed the town’s flooded riverbanks after Storm Leonardo pounded the Iberian Peninsula with torrential rain in previous days.

Leonardo is the latest in a wave of around half a dozen winter storms to hit Portugal and Spain since the start of 2026, killing several people, ripping roofs off homes and flooding towns.

Flooding is becoming more frequent across Europe as the atmosphere warms and holds more moisture due to climate change, scientists say. Unprecedented flash floods killed 237 people in Spain’s Valencia region in October 2024.

A man aged around 70 died on Wednesday in Portugal’s southern Alentejo region after his car was swept away on a flooded road near a dam, Portuguese authorities said.

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VIDEO SHOWS: FLOODS IN PORTUGAL'S ALCACER DO SAL

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SHOWS: ALCACER DO SAL, PORTUGAL (FEBRUARY 6, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. BUILDING PARTIALLY SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATER

2. VARIOUS OF FLOODED RIVERBANKS

3. CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND PARTIALLY SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATER

4. VARIOUS OF FLOODED RIVERBANKS

5. SKATE PARK PARTIALLY SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATER

6. VARIOUS OF BRIDGE AND FLOODED RIVERBANKS