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Thousands of British holidaymakers are sheltering in battened down hotels on the Canary Islands tonight unable to fly home as hurricane force winds and rain hit the islands for a third day in a row.
Five of the seven islands are on red alert as a weather station high up on the Teide mountain in Tenerife recorded gusts of nearly 110 mph.
Some 180 flights have been cancelled or badly delayed and inter-island ferry services were suspended.
Beaches, normally still busy at this time of year with bathers in the so-called islands of perpetual spring, were being battered by 30 foot waves driven by winds averaging 60mph.
Thousands of people were without power on Friday and a motorway on Gran Canaria was closed when torrential rain caused a major rock fall.
But there have been no serious injuries and weathermen said that the storm was expected to abate and the red alert would be reduced to orange alert tomorrow.
Flights disruptions are expected to continue for at least another 24 hours.
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