Tenerife Weather

[El Profesor]

oh goody . . . . a sauna

[Guanche]

Its a strange one. Despite being very overcast and damp the outside thermometer has surged up to 28deg from the 19deg I posted a few hours ago. I can vouch for the warm breeze and the sun is fighting to get through. My eyes haven't started to itch yet as they always do prior to a clima but I think I can put that down to the dampness.

[Nova]

This is horrible!!!  When I left for work this morning the wind was already a hot hair dryer but it was raining as well!  Now it's just a hot hair dryer, I can't stand this...

[Janet]

just today and tomorrow, they say ... yep, horrible.

[Guanche]

Nice 29deg with warm breeze. Clear blue sky's but a sea mist I usually associate with a clima.

[Janet]

[Aemet] are coming in for some serious stick for underestimating the amount of water that this weather system was going to dump. In Santa Cruz, apparently, it was ten times what was forecast, and the second heaviest downpour on record, being beaten only by the storm in 2002

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(As usual, after the rains a depression of moderate laments is approaching the islands with strong gusts of excuses which could bring some 100 assurances per square metre ... )


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[Janet]

It's that time of the year when summer's going and winter's coming, and the weather veers between storm, calima and rain, and today, Aemet is forecasting more rain, though not of storm force as we had recently. The met office has raised a yellow alert, all the same, for scattered showers which could be heavy in parts throughout today, with the heaviest rain expected this afternoon and evening in the north. Although the recent storm didn't leave any snow on Teide, today's weather is expected to give us the winter white view that everyone so loves. The weather alert also extends to the sea, with strong winds whipping up a real surf. Please be careful in or near the water. There have been enough deaths in the sea this year. JA

[Janet]

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We had the first real rains of winter last month, and if forecasts remain as they are, we will shortly have the first "borrasca". The position will no doubt become clearer over the next several days, but the low pressure front is currently looking set to approach the Canaries from the west next week, with high winds and heavy and persistent rains from Tuesday 18th. As things stand, the weather could settle until Sunday 23rd. More info and clarity in due course, I'm sure. JA

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[Janet]

Meteorologists are now saying that they can virtually confirm that the main front expected on Tuesday will be with us on Wednesday, and that there will be "substantial" rainfall. They also say, though, that the second part of the borrasca which could remain with us to the weekend will be a "copybook storm". They stress that they do not wish to cause alarm, and say that the forecast is subject to some development because things can change somewhat over the course of the whole week. None the less, if things remain as they seem at present, Wednesday will be bad, but Friday and Saturday will be much worse. JA

[Janet]

Aemet has now issued its alert for heavy rain and high winds from 4pm tomorrow, Tuesday. The Met Office says that the coming weather system comprises successive fronts of a deep depression. The forecast is for generalized rain, and lots of it, accompanied by very strong winds.

Aemet says that of the first two fronts, the first is "very active", with persistent and locally torrential rain. It will affect the Canaries from tomorrow afternoon until Thursday night, moving slowing west to east.

The second stronger front will start to affect us almost immediately, but with the depression forming near the islands it is as yet unclear where it will be centred. As such it is not yet possible to know exactly how severe it will be, or where exactly it will be centred. Aemet said, however, that it is very likely that we will get a storm, with at the least locally torrential rain and very strong winds.