This Tuesday, January 18, 2022, he left temperatures below zero in the Teide National Park and a little more snow and ice on the highest peak in Spain. A light white blanket that, despite the cloudiness and the haze, offered some majestic images of Teide in these days of convulsive meteorological cocktail, in which an Atlantic storm has met over the Canary Islands with the haze that comes from the Sahara desert . The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) maintains the yellow warning for suspended dust on the island of Tenerife, where visibility is expected to be around 3,000 meters, although occasionally it may be reduced below that distance. There is also a warning for a probability of between 40 and 70% that winds of more than 70 kilometers per hour will occur today, especially in high areas and on the northern slope of the island.
The top of the Canary Islands already withstood during the night from Monday to Tuesday gusts of wind that reached 73 kilometers per hour, according to data from the State Meteorological Agency, in which, however, the minimum recorded by the thermometers installed at the summit stand out. Tenerife. Up to 0.2 degrees below zero were recorded in the Izaña area and just over three degrees at the other control station in Las Cañadas, closer to the parador. Low temperatures that have allowed precipitation to occur in the form of snow that will last relatively little, given the forecast of rising temperatures and the entry of more heat in the coming days.
To enjoy the image of Teide largely covered by white snow and ice, it was necessary yesterday, and it will be necessary today, to get closer to the peak to enjoy the sight. The cloudiness and haze that will still be installed on the Island will make it difficult to enjoy the views of Teide from beyond those three kilometers of good visibility that the Aemet provides.
According to the prediction of this same agency, in Tenerife today “intervals of high clouds in general”, “probable haze, especially during the afternoon”, and “temperatures without changes or slightly rising from the maximum” are expected. “Moderate wind from the southeast with strong intervals is also expected, and probable very strong gusts of up to 70 kilometers per hour during the morning and central hours in the northeast, without ruling out that they will spread along the northern slope.” Until yesterday, Tuesday, the maximum gust of wind had been recorded on the island of Gran Canaria, specifically in San Cristóbal, where a gust of 103 kilometers per hour was measured.
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Aemet sources expect a significant entry of dust in suspension in the Canary Islands, from the African continent, for today and tomorrow afternoons. In the coming days, they also expect the influence of the North Atlantic anticyclone to continue, at least for a week, in which the influence of colder air will coexist with the arrival of warmer air masses from the African coast. The snow cover on Teide is shallow and will not last long, but it has already left beautiful winter images for this unstable start to 2022.
