EUROPE - Storm activity across Europe is on the up this week, as three storms are forecast to hit the Iberian Peninsula. Storm Bernardo is already impacting the Iberian Peninsula, triggering orange weather warnings for wind and rain. Forecasters are predicting Bernardo to be a high impact storm and will churn seas and thrash the western Mediterranean coast. Bernardo will also increase the risk of avalanches in Picos de Europa National Park in Northern Spain. The Asturias regional weather service warned of avalanches: “Within a short period a lot of new snow will fall on the snow already present. The amount of snow that is now in the mountains has become considerable. This considerably increases the risk of ‘spontaneous avalanches’.”