I am from Madrid, and I can tell this is in fact highly unusual. From time to time it might snow in Madrid a couple of days, but nothing like this. In the mountains of course it happen almost every year, but not in the plains...
All the cities in central Spain are collapsed by the ice and snow (including the capital), there are no public transportation, emergencies services can barely make it into affected zones, a lot of people don't have water supply because of frozen pipes (including myself), trucks with food and supplies are still stuck and cannot enter in the city...
This chaos is of course because we are not prepared for this extreme cold weather, and we are not prepared because this is VERY unusual.
Let's say this is the same unusual as in the covid-19 pandemic,nobody would have imagined it a year ago.
All the cities in central Spain are collapsed by the ice and snow (including the capital), there are no public transportation, emergencies services can barely make it into affected zones, a lot of people don't have water supply because of frozen pipes (including myself), trucks with food and supplies are still stuck and cannot enter in the city...
This chaos is of course because we are not prepared for this extreme cold weather, and we are not prepared because this is VERY unusual.
Let's say this is the same unusual as in the covid-19 pandemic,nobody would have imagined it a year ago.