Tenerife Weather

[Perikles]

We just had a friend in Tijoco Bajo phone to say we may want to check our solar panels as the wind has just blown his off his roof.  He thinks he's getting gusts in excess of 150kph.  You can't stand in his garden and the wind keeps blowing over his poor confused 15 year old dog.

When I was looking after his place earlier this year, there was a gale so strong it was tearing tiles off the walls of his house. That place must be prone to high wind, even though it's not much of an altitude.

[Janet]

Christmas has been marked by a particularly dense calima with a very high particulate concentration making breathing difficult for many with respiratory conditions. It settled in around a week ago and has seemed very unwilling to move on, but the forecast for the next few days is positive, with it starting to clear away from tomorrow. By New Year's Eve, normal service should be resumed, with clear - and clean - skies and a welcome moistness in the atmosphere, though there's a possibility that temperatures will drop slightly, and maybe even a few drops of rain will wash away the last of the dust. JA

[Janet]

It cleared, and now it's coming back, Aemet has issued a yellow alert for tomorrow for "dust in suspension" - that's filthy air to you and me. It will affect east Tenerife most of all, but this alert is for the whole of the Canaries, not just Tenerife. Visibility will be reduced to around 3km. For the moment, the alert is for tomorrow starting at 9am, though this might be updated if the calima doesn't clear quickly. JA

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

If it brings warmer temps with it I don't give a rat's patootie about the air.

[El Profesor]

If it's windy where you are now, it's going to get stronger over the weekend.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

If it's windy where you are now, it's going to get stronger over the weekend.

Could you state the colour strength of your warning?  And please, what is your advice on panicking? 

[El Profesor]

Could you state the colour strength of your warning?  And please, what is your advice on panicking?

definitely not a warning, but I would recommend an extra clothes peg . . . . and we might as well close all public buildings and schools just in case.
Although you might not get it out west, unless it was windy when I posted that.

[Janet]

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Meteorologists are saying that a particularly cold front is affecting the Canaries, with temperatures at midday in La Laguna not getting above 14º. Tonight, however, they are set to drop significantly, with the Teide national park expected to record -6º, and medianías (between 600 and 1500m) just 2º.  Well, it is winter ...

JA

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[Guanche]

We're at 12deg at the moment but the sun has just slipped over the mountains so I expect it to go down quite quickly. Last night it went down to 10deg that was at 9.30pm, the last time I checked. But as we all know inside is much colder. Unfortunately I haven't got a thermometer on the inside and the one I have is screwed to an outside wall, just as well I think! Its hot water bottle time

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

You've got that right Pelinor.  We have 12.6 outside, 16.8 inside (which I do not believe) with the prospect of it only getting colder.  Brrrrr.