Tenerife Weather

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Same as we've had all summer in the west.  Today it broke 21 degrees!  Amazing!

[El Profesor]

Isn't it great! . . . . I hate those hot sweaty summers.

[Janet]

It's El Niño, apparently ... and it could be a tad less cloudy, but yes, loving the temperatures compared to the 40+ of some years!

[Nova]

What a glorious day it's been today!  Very warm but not quite too hot and with just enough sun between the cloud cover that the pool was shimmering like a holiday advert 

I'm puzzled though, I was outside for a large chunk of the day and have caught the sun a bit (I was wearing sun protection of course), and now I have two white strap marks up to my shoulders.  What's wrong with that?  I have been wearing a strapless swimming costume all day with a strapless dress over the top when I wasn't at the pool.  So where have the strap marks come from?   

[Marion]

Hmmmm, maybe you had a bit of a tan that didn't quite show up the strap marks but when sunning yourself today it gave the bits that already had tan enought to make it look brown but because the "unseen" strap marks hadn't got any sun on the day the rest of the light tan developed it wasn't enough today to make it go even a little brown, or certainly not as brown as the rest of your skin. Am I rambling here? Lol.

[Nova]

That's the best thing I could think of as well Marion    I certainly had no visible strap marks before...

[Janet]

 

When did you put the sun cream on ... ?? ...   

edit: scratch that, that would mean they'd be burnt bits not white strap marks ...   

[Janet]

well, I'm sitting here in sheepskin slippers and have a cardigan over my shoulders for good measure. Three blankets are on the bed ... not quite duvet weather ...

We are told here that this is the coldest summer since 2002, which means it's the coldest since we moved over, and I can confirm that! Apparently it's because the Azores anti-cyclone, that which normally plonks a calima over our heads for a month in July and keeps it there for at least a fortnight, and then repeats the exercise for shorter periods in August and September, making the whole thing nigh-on unberable, is, this year, stationed in the mid Atlantic.

Some say this is an effect of it being an El Niño year, though we've had other El Niño years since 2002 without this happening ...

Anyone else feeling like lighting a fire in August in Tenerife?? ...

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Yes!  A friend of mine has renamed last month:  Juliember. 

[Michael]

Well i'm wearing t-shirts at the minute so I can put one of you in the spare room if it helps. 

What are the temps. like there and i'll tell you if you're just being wimps?