The stormy Celia leaves in the Mount Teide a new frozen dawn: five degrees below zero and a blanket of snow. With this figure, the island summit was again for the second consecutive day the point of the country with the coldest temperatures, a situation that is also accompanied by the intense wind that continues to blow in the National Park.
Streaks above the 100 kilometers per hour and thermometers below zero are a good picture for the most visited National Park in the country, although the beauty of the snow-covered mantle can be an ordeal for workers.
Yesterday Tuesday, the Council of Tenerife had to cut off all access to the area because of the presence of ice and snow on the road and even today some of the roads remain closed to traffic. This situation meant that for a good part of the day, the employees of the Izaña Meteorological Center saw trapped in Izañaseveral hours even without being able to leave the building and with the doors blocked by storm surge.
The work carried out by highway operators made it possible to clear some of the roads in the late afternoon, a situation that facilitates movement and also helps to get an idea of the current landscape of the summit of Tenerife. Of course, the two main entrance roads to the National Park (TF-24 and TF-21) are still closed to traffic.
The snow remains piled up on both sides of the roads of the National Park and on the volcanic edifice of the Mount Teide. Now, the question is whether this situation will last long enough for the most novice people of Tenerife to come and enjoy a day on the snow.
At the moment, the forecasts of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) do not give too many clues, although they do give reasons for optimism. Whether the white mantle is maintained depends on whether the rainfall and low temperatures continue: regarding the former, everything indicates that it will not continue to snow in the coming days, but the Aemet warns that the thermometers could even register drops.
