
With the opening up of the Sierra Nevada now that people are free to move around, there have been three separate accidents on the first day.
The company that runs the ski station on Sierra Nevada, Cetursa, has issued a statement saying that they will not be opening the resort on the 28th as planned.
A small army of volunteers from Sierra Nevada Limpia carried out a clean-up operation in the Hoya de la Mora area of the said mountain range.
The platform, No Más Cemento en Sierra Nevada, which came into being to prevent urban intrusion on the slopes of Sierra Nevada, has raised the voice of alarm.
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), through its astronomic observatories on Sierra Nevada, in Sevilla and at La Hita (Toledo) picked up a fireball just past midnight on the 17th.