Tenerife Weather

[El Profesor]

Yes, it is going to be very very windy tomorrow and it's going to rain a lot this week . . . . and we will just get the usual inundation of continuous alerts and pre-alerts, orange and yellow alternating . . . . which won't make any difference to the weather.
A weather forecast would be enough.

[Michael]

Yes, it is going to be very very windy tomorrow and it's going to rain a lot this week . . . . and we will just get the usual inundation of continuous alerts and pre-alerts, orange and yellow alternating . . . . which won't make any difference to the weather.
A weather forecast would be enough.

You're likely to need an alert forecast! 

[Janet]

I've seen some pretty freakish stories about the "hurricane" that's about to hit us, some of them with pictures of a full-blown spiral of clouds with the characteristic hurricane's eye ... and they are false. No-one is going to deny that we have some weather coming, and it has been known for a week that it will be bad from tonight. Quite how bad it will be seems to be under constant review – this is weather, after all, but a hurricane it is not. The current very windy conditions, with rain from tonight, are forecast to last until Friday. The picture below is the actual current weather front. JA

[Janet]

Red alerts for torrential rain are now being issued by Aemet. In La Palma, the alert is for today from 6pm and overnight. Tenerife is on red alert  for 60 mm per square metre of rain between midday and midnight tomorrow, Wednesday 11 December. The forecast says that mainly the east and northeast areas of Tenerife will be affected.

[El Profesor]

. . . . . . . . .  No-one is going to deny that we have some weather coming,  . . . . . .

Yes, and one wonders what they will do now that everyone knows that orange alerts are meaningless.
I think the alerts are on red now and sensibly they have decided to close all the schools in the middle of the day . . . until further notice.
This move is greatly appreciated by the children, the teachers and the politicians, all for different reasons.

Might as well send them back in January now . . . . if it isn't raining.

[Perikles]

Tenerife is on red alert  for 60 mm per square metre of rain

Either "60mm" or "60 litres per square metre", but not a mixture. 

[Janet]

oh I give up ... those who care about it will know what I mean, and others won't have a clue anyway whether I get it right or not!

[Guanche]

Just started to spit..........then it stopped! 19deg cloudy but bright sunshine coming through. No wind to speak of. Seas a tad choppy from where I can see.

Wife's running round like a headless chicken battening the hatches down! I'm having a cup of tea in the garden with an umbrella by my side. Ah! to be English

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

21 degrees here and very very very windy.  I put sheets out on the line and checked back in 40 minutes to see they hadn't blown away.  They were dry.  We've had a few spits of rain.

We did the batten hatching down yesterday - shutters, checked drains were open, put things away in the courtyard, got rid of leaves that had blown down so they couldn't clog the drains. 

Guess we are ready.

[Janet]

The Canarian Government has confirmed that schools in the western islands and Gran Canaria are closed tomorrow. The Teide National Park for its part has confirmed that access roads will be closed from 5pm until further notice: these are the TF21, TR24 and TF38. These are the roads up to El Portillo from La Orotava and La Laguna, and the Boca Tauce-Chio road.