Floods and wildfires continued to bring disruption to swathes of France and Spain on Monday after severe weather caused delays across the continent over the weekend.

A 55-year-old woman was found dead in her car in the Guingamp area of France on Monday morning, trapped on her way to work, the Côtes-d’Armor prefecture said.

Côtes-d’Armor, in the north west, remained on an orange alert, with the Plouha area experiencing more than 150mm of rainfall between 12pm Sunday and 6am Monday.

Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille’s department in the south east on France, was placed on yellow alert for rain and floods today as a Mediterranean storm swept through.

Spanish firefighters on Monday found a second body swept away by a river near Barcelona after torrential weekend rainfall drenched the region of Catalonia.

Firefighters on Sunday recovered the body of a child in Sant Pere de Riudebitlles while searching for two people whose car was swept away by the Mediona river.

A 100-strong search team that included divers, drones, a helicopter and sniffer dogs found a second unidentified body on Monday in nearby Sant Quinti de Mediona ‘that could correspond’ to the missing person, the fire service said. 

Rescuers also recovered 27 people who were trapped at the Sant Joan funicular at the Montserrat Monastery near Barcelona following a landslide.

Dozens of flights to and from Barcelona airport, Spain’s second-busiest, were either delayed or cancelled because of the rain.

Firefighters in Galicia meanwhile battled two wildfires on Saturday with support from the military, after fires fuelled by dry conditions broke out on Thursday.

Italy was braced for severe weather in the north on Monday, with 30mm of rain falling in the northern part of Milan overnight, and 80mm in Paderno Dugnano and Seveso.

In France, six departments were placed on orange alert for rain and flooding into Monday morning.

Parts of the Atlantic coast were still on a yellow ‘be careful’ warning on Monday, in effect until midnight. Thunderstorms were expected in the south.

In Côtes-d’Armor, in the north west, a woman was found dead in her car early this morning.

The departmental prefecture told Le Parisien she had been swept away by flood waters in the commune of Ploumagoar on her way to work.

Firefighters in the region had received 1,500 calls and responded to ‘more than 400’ incidents related to the bad weather. 

In the east, more than a dozen departments were still subject to yellow warnings for ‘rain-flood’ on Monday.

Video shared on social media showed parts of the country, especially on the Mediterranean coast, submerged in flood water during an intense storm.

Nearly a dozen flights in and out of Marseille-Provence Airport alone were disrupted between 5.30pm and 7.30pm due to weather conditions on Sunday.

Those travelling from Manchester and Venice had to be diverted to alternative airports in Montpellier, Nice and Lyon, a spokesperson for the Marseille airport said.

Vascluse, in the south east, saw trains interrupted between Miramas and Avignon to account for the weather.

Some 115mm of cumulative rainfall were recorded in the municipalities of Avignon, Morieres and Vedene.

Homes were left without power in Avignon, Carpentras, and Sarrians, the Vaucluse prefecture said.

By Sunday afternoon, some 10,000 homes were left without power in Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône, in the south. The figure was coming down by the evening.

In Bouches-du-Rhône alone firefighters had been called in to assist 250 times by Sunday. They reported no casualties.

A football match between Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain had to be postponed due to the weather. 

Rognac, a commune near Marseille, said that all schools in the region would be closed on Monday following floods. 

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