The body of a woman has been found after she fell into a swollen stream in Spain as torrential rain turned streets into muddy rivers. 

The woman’s husband was able to stop their daughter from being swept away by powerful floodwaters in Cabrera de Mar, about 18 miles from Barcelona. 

They had been returning to their car after playing basketball in town when the woman was swept downstream about 7.30pm yesterday. 

It’s understood she had been trying to cross the waterway with her daughter when she became overpowered by the water. 

At about 11am today, search teams recovered the woman by the breakwater at Marina Port Premia, a sports and leisure centre on Barcelona’s Maresme coast. 

Firefighters who had been involved in the search wrote on X: ‘We have found the lifeless body of the woman who went missing yesterday evening.’

It comes as Storm Adam brought chaos to Ibiza airport today, with footage from inside the terminal showing water cascading from the ceiling. 

One of its car parks was temporarily closed due to the collapse of an awning.

Large recycling bins were seen floating downstream as locals sought refuge from the floods

A truck caught in rapidly rising floodwaters in El Jido in Almeria is pictured

Floods in El Ejido, where precipitation has exceeded the red alert threshold, is pictured

Storm Adam is expected to bring falls of 250mm to 350mm to Valencia and the surrounding areas in the next 24 hours as southern and eastern Spain is battered by heavy rain

Flights into the holiday island were being diverted to Alicante and Majorca because of runway problems caused by the heavy rain. The seven flights known to have been affected include one from London and another from Bristol.

Ibiza’s Island Council confirmed motorway access to the airport had been cut off near the tunnels in Playa d’en Bossa.

Store owners were seen using brooms and mops to try to keep brown floodwater gushing down the street from entering their premises.

Civil Protection chiefs warned in an alert sent to phones yesterday morning: ‘Imminent risk of flooding in Ibiza and Formentera from intense rainfall. 

‘Maximum precaution. Avoid flood-prone areas and unnecessary journeys and stay clear of waterways.’

Hundreds of people are said to have been left without electricity on the two Balearic holiday islands.

The Costa Blanca region has been placed under a rare ‘danger to life’ warning, which will remain until 10am on Monday.

Heavy rain is seen in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia in this weather map. From 10am on Sunday, large swathes of the country will be placed under a rare ‘danger’ to life warning

Emergency services have responded to more than 100 calls since the deluge began on Saturday, mostly from people trapped in their cars in floodwaters

State weather forecaster Aemet said the red alert would span Malaga, Torremolinos, Fuengirola, Marbella, Estepona, Nerja and the Axarquia region.

It warned: ‘The meteorological danger is extraordinary. Property and vulnerable populations or in exposed areas could suffer very serious or catastrophic impacts.’

The southern coast of Valencia and northern Alicante could receive falls of 300mm throughout Monday as Storm Adam continues its path of destruction. 

Emergency services have responded to more than 100 calls since the deluge began on Saturday, mostly from people trapped in their cars in floodwaters. 

Shocking footage shared to X shows large recycling bins and a car sailing downstream and a truck trapped in the muddy water. 

Tourists and residents have been urged to stay indoors, avoid all non-essential travel and steer clear of low-lying roads, riverbeds and beachfronts.

Locals in Valencia received an emergency alert on their phones yesterday afternoon reminding them to stay indoors as the floods raged outside.

Public buildings such as libraries, cemeteries and gardens have been closed and football matches and concerts have been cancelled.

Roads have been closed or restricted due to fears of landslides.  

The storm has caused widespread flooding in El Palo, east of Malaga’s city centre, and further inland in Axarquia, home to thousands of British expats. 

The south-eastern province of Almeria has also been badly affected, with cars trapped and basements flooded in municipalities such as El Ejido. 

It comes as two elderly people were rescued after becoming trapped in their cars in floodwaters in Sentmenat, a municipality in the Valles Occidental region of Catalonia. 

Floodwaters submerged streets following torrential rain in Barcelona earlier this month

An aerial view of floods in Catalunya earlier this month is pictured. Two people died during those storms, one a 75-year-old man after a campsite wall collapsed on top of him in Tordera close to the Costa Brava coastline and another man in a flooded garage in Montornes del Valles

On Thursday, the body of a 12-year-old boy, named only as Rami, was found after he went missing during a storm in Spain’s Catalonia region on October 4. 

Officials confirmed his body had been found by a fisherman off a beach in the holiday resort of Sitges on Wednesday after he disappeared earlier this month. 

Rami had Level 2 autism, with reports stating he had fled his home in Granollers near Barcelona after becoming frightened and disorientated during the night. 

An online appeal was put out by a non-profit organisation on behalf of his family as volunteers joined police and other officials in the search. 

A second person went missing around the same time as Rami, a man who is believed to have fallen into a flooded river in Pineda de Mar, north of Barcelona.

Two people died during storms earlier this month, one a 75-year-old man after a campsite wall collapsed on top of him in Tordera close to the Costa Brava coastline and another man in a flooded garage in Montornes del Valles, in Barcelona.

The army had to be sent to Ibiza twice last year because of flooding chaos.

The airport was left out of action for nearly an hour after being battered for the second time in less than a fortnight by Storm Alice.

Torrential rain on September 30 last year caused problems including flooding at Ibiza nightclubs and hotels. Three people were injured when rocks smashed into the four-star Vibra Tropical Garden Apartments in Ibiza Town.

Tourists reaching Ibiza at the time on ferries were pictured stepping into knee-deep water as they got off the boat.

Storm Adam comes two years after mass flash floods in Valencia claimed 214 lives.