A new storm leaves storms and snowfall in Tenerife with the Island in a yellow warning, which remains throughout today, as announced by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet). The haze and a feeling of humid heat yesterday gave way to rainfall associated with an Atlantic front that also brings snow on Teide, from 2,700 meters,
It is the summary of a strange and crazy time. It is enough to travel the island’s geography to verify it. From the suffocating heat in Tacoronte, typical of an extreme continental climate, unusual in the winter of the midlands, to the intense and short-lived storms in the South. In the Metropolitan Area, it went from cold to hot and vice versa in a short time and a short distance. Microclimates in its purest state. This forced them to dress up and take off their clothes with the consequent risk of suffering those winds that Canarian mothers always warned about.
The forecast for today is the predominance of gray skies due to medium and high cloudiness. Added to this is the widespread rainfall on the islands of greater relief, locally in the form of strong showers, accompanied by storms, mainly on El Hierro and La Palma. The haze maintains the tendency to decrease although without disappearing completely, something that will happen during the day today. Temperatures will experience a slight to moderate rise, except in the north of the islands with greater relief, where a slight drop in the maximum is expected. Light to moderate wind, of variable direction in the western islands, without ruling out occasional very strong gusts in Tenerife or La Palma associated with convection, the result of heating by temperature gradients. In the middle and high areas it will be of a southern component with strong intervals, more intense in the central peaks of Tenerife, where very strong gusts are expected.
Instability
David Suárez, provincial delegate of the Aemet, delves into the forecast: «Tenerife maintains the situation of instability until tomorrow (for today). We have warnings for precipitation from today (yesterday) with the possibility of strong showers and it will continue like this tomorrow (today for the reader) ».
Suárez adds the novelty that “we have also activated the yellow warning for winds that can reach and exceed 70 kilometers per hour.” He confirms that “the haze will continue, although with less intensity” and advances that “starting tomorrow (today) dry weather will predominate.” Suárez announces that “during the night (yesterday) the precipitation could be in the form of snow above 2,700 meters.”
