Puerto Pollensa was battered by gale force winds and heavy rains overnight and this morning the popular resort awoke to discover that its beach was under water!
One eye-witness said that 90 percent of the beach had "disappeared" as waves battered the shoreline. "It is a rather grim day up here," he said, adding that rain had winds had hit the resort overnight. Mallorca is certainly in the eye of the storm.
Overnight an estimated 107 litres of rain per square metre fell in Lluc and winds of up to 100kmh swept across the island.
Mallorca remains on bad weather alert with rain being forecast for the rest of the week. The bad weather put a real dampener on the big San Sebastian festival in Palma and today's public holiday in the city.
According to the Palma Met Office it it one of the coldest starts of the year in Mallorca on record. Earlier this month a minimum temperature of -4 degrees was registered.