Tenerife Weather

[Delderek]

By normal, I mean normal August, which is pretty warm.
Every August I bring the hamsters in for a week or so. It's not hot enough for that at the moment. I imagine it gets hotter at altitude, but then it always does.

Just looked - 29º here. Altitude about 500m.

Strange statement that. Temp reduces 1 deg every 100 meters. Except during a Calima when temp does increase at altitude, and humidity reduces to unhealthy levels. Less than 38% is not good. I have measured it down to 21% in Los Cris,,,good for drying clothes but bad for everything else.

[poker]

It would be benificial to make youreown swampcooler up the mountain then to cool the house .

I lookt into it but here the himidity is to high in Silencio.

If I hear the temperature and humidity levels up with you lot a swampcooler would be ideal and lots cheaper than airco .

[Janet]

what's a swampcooler?? 

[poker]

Fan that suks outside air the air passes some kind of simple constantly wet large sponge and blows this wetter cooler air in/tru the house .

You can cool youre house about 5 c. or more depending on the outside temp./ humidity and do it at a fraction of the cost of an airco (instalation and usage).
Also different of an airco you have to put youre windows open for it to work good .

And if youre a bit handy , you can build one youreself .

[Janet]

but when it's 40º or so outside we can't have the windows open ... 

[poker]

Yes you can with a swampcooler! 

Google it . I have seen them in action in the USA and they really work .

When I ever get a finca at altitude I will immediatly make a bigg one and install it to cool down .

You will not have any dust inside as the air gets filtered tru a water filter and then blown inside , cooling and back out another open window .

[Guanche]

A welcome bit of relief when the sun set behind the mountains. It was quite bad in Santa Cruz this morning. The wife and I had 2lt of water between us just walking around for half an hour. Then we went to the brother in laws boat. Big mistake! we didn't leave the marina so it was like furnace even though we were on the water no breeze, dead calm. Even the water wasn't much of a relief.
Now theres a slight breeze its bearable

[El Profesor]

Strange statement that. . . . . . . .

Not within the context of the south of Tenerife it isn't.

Let's take Granadilla as an example because I used to live there, (20 years ago). From November to February I used to catch the bus wearing a scarf and gloves, then get off it and be among people walking around in bikinis.
But in the summer it is an unbearable sweltering furnace. Hottest place in the south in the summer, coldest place in the winter. And it's the altitude that does that.

As for the alerts, as Janet says, it's an administrative thing. I know it's hot. But it is totally normal - it's always done this.
But now we have coloured alerts that make it look like it isn't normal. And people just become weather hypochondriacs.

This weather is not in any way unusual.

[Janet]

 Doesn't alter the fact, though, that after this "heatwave", temperatures will drop to the "normal hot" ...

the orange alert for the whole of Tenerife has now been extended up to including Wednesday.

[Delderek]

Yes you can with a swampcooler! 

Google it . I have seen them in action in the USA and they really work .

When I ever get a finca at altitude I will immediatly make a bigg one and install it to cool down .

You will not have any dust inside as the air gets filtered tru a water filter and then blown inside , cooling and back out another open window .

They are also common in the Middle East for cooling warehouses etc, and yes they work well, and provided you can recycle the water, fairly cheap to run, as the fan itself does not consume much electricity.