The Spanish meteorological agency has issued a red alert for rainfall along the coast of Huelva in the south-west of the country.

The warning is in place between 09:00 and 11:59 local time, and predicts accumulated precipitation of 140mm over 12 hours.

"It is estimated that rainfall will continue with great intensity in the warning area during the next few hours," the update reads.

Other areas of the province are on "orange" alert.

In the last hour, the official X account for Andalusia emergencies outlined the alert - including that the regions of Aracena, Andévalo and Condado have an orange warning in place for rain and yellow for storms.

In the early hours of the morning, the same account detailed the "red warning" which at that point covered a greater area. They asked people to avoid travelling.

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As the clean-up operation continues this morning, the mayor of a small town in Valencia is calling for more support for her citizens.

In a call with a Spanish radio station, Chiva Mayor Amparo Fort sets out the scale of the devastation.

"Entire houses have disappeared," she says. "We don't know if they are with or without people."

The president of Valencia has announced 250m euros ($270m) in aid for those affected, but Fort stresses the need for immediate relief in her small community.

"We continue to ask for food and water," she adds. "We need milk, mashed food for babies and the elderly."

Sarah Keith-Lucas
BBC Weather

The slow-moving "Dana" weather system that brought the flooding rainfall earlier this week is starting to weaken now, but there is some more rain in the forecast for Friday and Saturday in places.

The heaviest of rain today will be focused in the south and east of Spain.

Amber rainfall warnings are in force to the north of Valencia – especially around the Tarragona and Castellón regions, as well as Menorca and Mallorca. Secondly, in south-west Andalucía around Huelva and Condado.

In these affected regions, there could be another 100mm of rain falling over the next 12 hours. With already saturated ground, this may lead to further flooding.

The rain should ease during Saturday, and a much drier day is forecast across Spain by Sunday.

Nicky Schiller
Reporting from Valencia

I mentioned earlier how I had seen hundreds of people armed with brooms, spades and buckets to help clear up the devastated area of the city of Valencia.

Now the tractors have arrived.

I counted around 15 one after the other driving down the road to help move the debris and cars in this area.

We assume some of them are local farmers who, like so many people in the city, just want to do something to help.

Matt Taylor
BBC Weather

While areas around Valencia, hit worst by the devastating floods this week, have been drier over the last few days low pressure has remained across Spain and Portugal bringing storms and flooding to other areas.

Worst hit on Thursday were parts of Castellón, south of Tarragona, where several months worth of rain fell during the day and more flooding was reported.

Areas around south-west Spain, bordering with Portugal, saw intense rainstorms overnight. AEMET (Spain’s national weather service) issued red warnings, with one remaining in force until 17:00 local time in Litoral de Huelva.

Andrew Harding
Reporting from Valencia

The death toll at the moment still stands at 158, but officials are saying that many dozens are missing.

So it's a mixture of rescue work - people still hunting for survivors perhaps, but the dead particularly - and also the grim task of clearing up the mud which cakes everything. It's also a task of supporting families who have lost so much because of the torrential rain.

Today, it's a clear morning, there are only some clouds in the distance. Yet that’s exactly the problem; the rain came elsewhere and people in Valencia were taken totally by surprise because they didn't see the rain and they didn't anticipate the flash flood coming down the rivers so fast.

This is where public education has to change, and has to play such a role.

People need to understand that it doesn't need to rain where you are for there to be a very dangerous flood. People need to be told, they must not get in their cars, which may be the natural thing to do.

As we've seen those cars become death traps on clogged undriveable roads. People need to know that they need to go to higher ground and they need to know where that higher ground is.

Although there were warnings, they clearly didn't carry the urgency that they needed to.

Nicky Schiller
Reporting from Valencia

The community really is coming together in the city of Valencia.

For the last hour I have seen a steady stream of people heading to the one of the worst hit areas, carrying brooms, spades and bottled of water. They've come from parts of the city not hit by the flooding.

Local churches and other organisations are getting volunteers to help clear up.

They are liaising with the authorities who have urged people not to move cars themselves. But it does show how much people want to help when a disaster hits.

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As residents in the east of Spain slowly begin to take in the damage to their communities, some have described their shock at what they have found.

Speaking to the BBC Radio 4s Today programme, journalist Paco Polit explains how he encountered "utter devastation" when he headed into a local town in Valencia.

The journalist says that "thousands" of people in the northern side of the city are making their way south, but are struggling with the roads blocked by rubble and mud.

Polit is also critical of authorities, and suggests that warnings "came very late".

He says "action didn't ensue" after reports suggested that rain was going to be "devastating" last Tuesday.

"When the alert was set off on our mobile phones it was already half-past 8pm on Tuesday, when it had been raining for two or three hours and it was already too late."

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Some people say they were not given enough warning before heavy rainfall hit their homes.

"Everyone is in shock because it just happened so fast," Mireia, who lives 3.1 miles (five km) away from the devastated area in Valencia, tells the BBC.

She describes how rivers quickly "overflowed" before residents nearby could gather their belongings and evacuate.

"People really were not prepared at all," she adds. "Many people were inside their cars, they couldn’t make it out.

"They were just drowned by the water."

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We heard yesterday that more than 1,200 workers have been deployed to the rescue mission as weather warnings for rain remain in place over parts of the country.

These workers are being assisted by drones, which are scanning the mud and wreckage for signs of life.

It is unclear exactly how many people are still missing, but Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez stressed the goal of saving "as many lives as possible" on visits to affected communities.

It's currently early morning in Valencia, where at least 155 deaths have been recorded, and we'll bring you the latest as the region wakes up to yet more weather warnings.

Nicky Schiller
Reporting from Valencia

I'm back in the La Torre area of the city of Valencia where there was some rain overnight so once again the streets are covered in mud.

But I can see a number of diggers and dumper trucks as the authorities try to clear some of the dozens and dozens of cars that were tossed around in the floods.

Certainly some of the vehicles I saw yesterday have been removed but this is going to be a very long job for them.

Guy Hedgecoe
Freelance journalist

On Tuesday morning, when storms began in south-eastern Spain, the national meteorological agency issued a red alert, warning people that there was a severe weather event approaching and they should take care.

But that was the meteorological agency, and people don't necessarily consult it.

It wasn't until later that evening that the regional government of Valencia issued an alert directly to the phones of people in Valencia, telling them that they should not go out in their cars or in the streets, and that they should take every precaution.

There have been a lot of questions asked about why there was that gap between the two warnings. And there have been wider questions too as to whether Spain has an adequate warning system for natural disasters.

Nathan Williams
Live page editor

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Good morning.

We're continuing to cover the deadly flooding that has rocked Spain this week, with more rain expected to fall today.

Spain's meteorological service (AEMET) has issued yellow and amber warnings for hard-hit Valencia and Castellón.

The rain - though not expected to be as severe as that which fell earlier in the week - poses a new issue for residents. With the ground already saturated, new precipitation could lead to new floods.

The disaster is the worst in decades for Spain, and authorities are warning residents that the emergency has not yet ended. At least 158 people have died in the storms, with emergency crews still combing through the wreckage for missing people.

We'll be bringing you more updates today as we get them. Stick with us.