Tenerife Weather

[Guanche]

It's quite bad in Santa Cruz, high winds and heavy rain. We just had a bit of a shower. It lasted about ten min. No wind and a bit of lightning.

[Nova]

Me no likey now   It's fearsome out there!  All my windows and doors are rattling and creaking, as are all the doors in the building.  The rain is battering down and outside the street lights are swinging like mad, the toldos are blustering, and the rain is sweeping across the Rambla in bursts.

It not nice 

[Michael]

Me no likey now   It's fearsome out there!  All my windows and doors are rattling and creaking, as are all the doors in the building.  The rain is battering down and outside the street lights are swinging like mad, the toldos are blustering, and the rain is sweeping across the Rambla in bursts.

It not nice 

Is this the worst you've seen Nova?

[Nova]

It's certainly up there at the top 

[NAH]

Take care Nova.

[Janet]

It's far worse than Delta ... but at altitude. Even Delta never got to gust to 180 km/h, which is what happened this evening up by the observatory. But Delta was all over the island, the worst of this is at altitude. What Nova's describing, though, on the coast only goes to show what it must be like up in the crater!!!

It's been absolutely bloody wild up here, and two bouts of incredibly heavy rainfall (and a few blackouts too) but we seem to have a lull right now ...

[Nova]

It's eased off here now, for a while at least.  I've opened the patio door to let some air in 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Ditto what Janet said.  I even phoned Perikles in fright!

All of our shutters are (now finally) closed, and buckets placed under known leaks.  Towels are under doors/windows known to leak.  It is loud and you can't see more than a few metres, which does not bother me since all the shutters are shut. 

Perhaps more tomorrow if we

[poker]

Oeps where are the vomiting bags .
Fred Olsen yesterday before coming into the harbour in Cristianos .


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[Nova]

I'm surprised they went out in that