Tenerife Weather

[Janet]

The schools have been closed, and extracurricular activities halted, in Puerto de la Cruz. This is the only place in Tenerife under this ruling at the moment.

[El Profesor]

My children's music lessons have been cancelled in Los Cristianos this afternoon ..... by the government. There is drizzle.

I suppose that if I choose to live here I should just shut up. 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

My children's music lessons have been cancelled in Los Cristianos this afternoon ..... by the government. There is drizzle.

I suppose that if I choose to live here I should just shut up.

Oh good grief!  I was there this afternoon running around, business as usual.  Sandy syndrome?

[El Profesor]

Oh good grief!  I was there this afternoon running around, business as usual.  Sandy syndrome?

No, they always do it when it rains.

[Janet]

Shall I just stop bothering?

[Nova]

Well I'm getting a bit peed off now!  It has been dark here since shortly after 4pm.  I have my lights on now otherwise I couldn't see the keyboard.  Outside the sky is hung with dark, thick, pendulous clouds, the sea is so dark it's almost black and pretty wild too.  There's a gale howling round my building and rattling everything that rattles, yet there is no bloody rain!!!!!! 

We had a few drops this morning - whoopdiding - yet it looks like the heavens could burst open at any moment and has done for hours!!!

No, Janet, you shan't 

[Janet]

For anyone who thinks there's an issue, it's been announced by the Government's Education Department that schools between Buenavista del Norte and Santa Cruz, as well as El Rosario and Fasnia will be closed tomorrow. HERE

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

In the west we've had showers rolling through all day and are expecting 68mm tomorrow. 

[Janet]

The problem isn't the rain, it's the sudden torrential downpours and the quantity they deposit. We've had the kitchen flooded once before because the drainage here, which copes perfectly well with the normal heavy rain in Tenerife (on the rare occasions we get it), just couldn't cope. I wouldn't be surprised if the same didn't happen tomorrow.

[Perikles]

Sandy syndrome?

On a mostly American science forum, somebody has started a thread claiming that people were over-reacting to Sandy, and the hype was ridiculous. Their last post was to the effect that they themselves had been quite wrong, and the alert quite justified.