The storm in Spain cost the lives of eight people on Wednesday. Three more people are missing because of the storm, which has been named Gloria.
Among the dead are a 63-year-old man who was hit by a flying roof tile, a homeless woman who died of hypothermia and a person who died after a building collapsed in the Spanish city of Alcoy.
A 25-year-old Brit is one of the people missing in the heavy weather. He fell into the sea trying to moor his boat in a port on Ibiza.
Gloria is seen as one of the most severe storms since 2003, local media report. The storm has been raging over Spain for four days. The Mediterranean coast and the Balearic archipelago in particular, which includes Ibiza, have been hit hard by the storm.
During the storm, gusts of wind were measured up to 144 kilometers per hour. Waves have been measured around the west coast with a record height of 13.5 meters. Gloria also brings heavy rain and snowfall. In Northeast Spain, 200,000 people were without electricity on Tuesday after the power supply failed under the large amount of rain and snow.
The storm has declined in strength on Wednesday and is heading north towards France.
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