Two weeks after flash floods caused devastation in eastern Spain, several areas of the country are on alert, with a new weather front expected to bring torrential rain and low temperatures. Eastern and southern Mediterranean areas are again the most vulnerable,

Schools in flood-hit towns in eastern Spain will be closed on Wednesday as the region braces for more torrential rains, officials said. National weather office AEMET on Tuesday placed parts of Valencia as well as Catalonia in the northeast and Andalusia in the south and the Balearic Islands on orange alert — the second highest level — for strong or torrential rains until Thursday.

Schools will be closed on Wednesay after the State Meteorological Agency placed parts of Valencia on orange alert on Tuesday night, as well as Catalonia in the northeast, Andalusia in the south and the Balearic Islands.

Spain's national weather service issued renewed storm warnings for much of the country for Tuesday to Thursday, two weeks after rains and flash floods claimed more than 220 lives, most of them around the eastern city of Valencia.

Two weeks after flash floods wreaked havoc in eastern Spain, parts of the country remain on high alert as a new weather system is expected to bring heavy rain and colder temperatures.

Flood-hit towns near the eastern city of Valencia were rushing on Tuesday to clear the sewage system of mud and debris, pile sandbags and cancel school classes as they prepared for another approaching storm.