Tenerife Weather

[Anne 2009]

How far from the coast are you @Janet ?

[Janet]

6km inland, 1km high ... it's a 1:6 up to us!

[Janet]

we've had nearly a week of totally normal summer, a tad on the hot side but generally very nice for midsummer, sort of around 30º. Today, though, the mist has arrived ...

I think it's too soon to think of the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but we live in hope! Temperature has "plummeted" ... it's 26º now and delightfully cool!

I've changed the slider photos on my website in honour of the approach of September. Every year it's a bloody disappointment though because autumn here is way off yet ... but for me, September is the beginning of autumn!

I know people are curious about what it's like oop t'hill ... this is what it's like up with us ...

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[Anne 2009]

I know people are curious about what it's like oop t'hill  -       I was 

[Janet]

Ufff ...

It looks as though we have another few hot days in store, with a calima expected to arrive from tomorrow and lasting until Wednesday or so. We are to expect heat and dusty air, it seems, with cloud in the medianías and at altitude, and the possibility of some dirty raindrops. Temperatures could get back up to near 40º again.

[Michael]

Before I left it just seemed to be one calima after another. 

[NAH]

.......I know people are curious about what it's like oop t'hill ... this is what it's like up with us ...

I think the first time I saw the view in the first picture was when it was burning out of control a few years ago, that looks so much better covered with mist.

[Janet]

yes, that was it, @NAH. That first photo is looking due south across the barranco, whereas the fire was higher up the hill, but that's the right direction. The mist is coming up the barranco - of Erques, one of the largest barrancos in Tenerife - and it comes up that gorge unbelievably fast, like a steam train! The second photo is looking west at the "sea of clouds" that sits at around 700m altitude over the lower areas, not quite reaching the coast itself. The island you can see is La Gomera, and just to its left and behind is El Hierro. The third photo is looking north-west, and you can just see the double hump of La Palma.

We frequently get a few calimas one after the other, but they used to be at season changeover times, now they just seem to come throughout the year in waves ... thankfully still not too many overall! Things are changing, but climatologists say we're in the "sweet zone" as the chaotic effects of extreme weather increase, so we won't suffer like mainland Europe does with floods and fires, nor the US with its dustbowl droughts and heat dome (link). As this all gets worse, I think we'll be grateful, really, for our calimas and slightly hotter heatwaves, and our not-quite-hurricanes in the winter.

[Malteser Monkey]

Really a month since a report....

@canarybird

@Hepa

how things where you are 

[Janet]

it's because there's not been any weather ... it's just been lovely ...