What's the weather like? - August 2019

[Captain Sensible]

Clear and sunny at 08.30.

A sunny day is forecast with a Yellow Alert in place for high temperatures. The shade temperature will be 30 with a UV index of 11. The wind will be 20-25 kph from the NE.

[Captain Sensible]

Sunny all day with a slightly hazy blue sky.  29 in the shade with a fairly strong NE wind.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Don't know if it's the same all over but in Tindaya we had an Easterly gale roar in about 9.30pm, frightening, still going. My wheel barrows were being rolled over and over like kids toys! I've just spent the last hour trying to catch and secure stuff and I don't leave lightweight bits and pieces outside, this is all big stuff. Moved the car because one of the fences looks like it's going over 

[Captain Sensible]

The wind did get up in Caleta last night as it was getting dark - it felt as if a hurricane was coming!

Cloudy at 9 am today.

A day of high cloud is forecast. The shade temperature will be 29 with a UV index of 10.  The wind will be around 25 kph from the noth this morning, and increasing to 35 kph from the NE this afternoon.

[Captain Sensible]

A strange day.  Grey for most of the day with some sunshine from 4.30. It's been very windy.

[Captain Sensible]

Cloudy at 8 am.

A sunny day is forecast with a shade temperature of 26 and a UV index of 10.  The wind will be 30-35 kph from the NE.

[Captain Sensible]

Mainly cloudy all day, with just a few glimpses of the sun.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

The wind did get up in Caleta last night as it was getting dark - it felt as if a hurricane was coming!

I was reading something today that talked about negative pressure on the side of a hill that is in the lee of the wind and how it pulls the draught down - I think that is what we experience in Tindaya when the wind is from the E or N. It comes up over Vallebron or Mta Tindaya and then roars down over the Tindaya plains, scary! I'm sure other parts of the island suffer from this effect as well. I'm getting a new Weather station soon so will be interesting to start measuring wind speed again - the last wind sensor packed up several years ago.

We've had the same strange grey days, quite hot and humid, a few spits of rain on Sunday morning. Today, Monday, the first sight of the sun was about 8pm!!

  and it wasn't long before it set! Nights are drawing in 

[Captain Sensible]

Mainly sunny at 08.15.

A partly cloudy day is forecast with a shade temperature of 25, a UV index of 10 and a 30 kph NE wind.

[Captain Sensible]

More cloud than sun during the day.