Climate change helps explains why the storms and floods were so extreme. But questions have emerged about whether communication failures contributed to the toll.

About 1,000 soldiers from emergency response units deployed to the affected areas, and the death toll was expected to rise after one of the worst natural disasters to hit the country in recent years.

Crews in Spain searched for flood survivors as teams stepped up efforts to pump water from flooded carparks into Monday, per Spanish outlet El País. Why it matters: The climate-change related flooding has killed 214 people as of Monday morning and building anger in affected communities over the government's response culminated in Valencia residents throwing mud and other objects at Spain's visiting King Felipe,

MADRID – Spain’s king and queen and their entourage, which included Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, were met with hostility and pelted with mud on Sunday during a visit to the flood-ravaged Valencia region.

A crowd of enraged survivors hurled clots of mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the Spanish royal couple on Sunday during their first visit to the center of their