Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France suffered major blackouts on Monday, affecting up to 50 million people. The outages disrupted transportation (metros, trains, airports), telecommunications (broadband, mobile), banking, and traffic systems across both nations.

• Airports like Madrid-Barajas and Barcelona faced delays; metro networks shut down in Madrid and Lisbon.

• Spain’s cyber-security agency (INCIBE) is also investigating whether a cyber-attack might have been involved.

• However, the primary explanation given by Portugal’s grid operator (REN) and Spain’s operator (Red Eléctrica) blames a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” that caused “anomalous oscillations” in the high-voltage electricity grid.

• Recovery efforts were underway by the afternoon, but full grid stability could take up to a week to restore across Europe.

• Gibraltar and the Canary Islands were unaffected.

This recalls the historic aurora borealis of 1938 that Fatima seer Lucia dos Santos said was the “great sign” predicted in the three famous secrets.

The “rare atmospheric phenomenon” refers to:

• Drastic temperature changes causing unusual variations (oscillations) in the high-voltage transmission lines.

• These oscillations destabilized the synchronization of the interconnected European power grid across multiple countries.

• This led to massive power disruptions because modern power grids must stay precisely synchronized (frequency around 50 Hz in Europe). Even small anomalies in synchronization can cause cascading outages.

• Authorities called it an “induced atmospheric variation”, meaning the sudden and extreme atmospheric shifts (like sharp heating or cooling fronts) disrupted the grid’s physical and electrical balance.

It wasn’t a solar storm or lightning strike, but rather rapid temperature-induced air pressure changes that physically and electrically stressed the grid in an abnormal way, causing widespread failure.