Canary Islands weather warning as Tenerife among areas slapped with yellow rain alert
Weather experts are expecting a major shift in weather with heavy rainfall.
The Spanish weather agency has issued an urgent warning of heavy rains after three people died during a tidal surge. Aemet, the national weather agency, has issued a warning for the Canary Islands, expecting a major shift in weather, particularly in the western parts of the region.
Aemet is to enforce an orange weather warning for rain on most of La Palma, with the alert to be in place between noon and 11pm local time. La Gomera, El Hierro and Tenerife are also facing weather alerts, with yellow warnings for rain and wind to be in place between 6pm and 11pm local time on November 12.
The warnings come as emergency services reported on Sunday that strong waves pulled people into the ocean in La Guancha, Puerto de la Cruz, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, resulting in the deaths of a man and a woman and injuries to several others. In a separate incident, another man was found dead in the water near a beach in Granadilla.
According to the weather agency, temperatures across the Canary Islands are expected to remain fairly steady, with Tenerife seeing highs around 24C and El Hierro recording the lowest temperatures at about 16C on Monday. Moderate north-easterly winds are forecast, with stronger gusts likely on the south-eastern slopes and in the far west, although these winds should ease later in the day.
Weather models from Meteored also predict that intense and persistent rain will arrive in the coming days, especially impacting the western islands—Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, and El Hierro—where heavy rainfall is possible in some areas.
In Gran Canaria, the northern part of the island will see mostly cloudy skies with a chance of light rain in the morning, which is expected to ease later in the day.
Other areas, especially in the south, will become cloudier during the afternoon. Lanzarote and Fuerteventura will have periods of cloudiness that should lighten as the day goes on.
Temperatures across the Canary Islands will stay steady, with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ranging between 20C and 24C. Winds from the northeast will be moderate overall, though stronger gusts may occur in exposed areas in the southeast and far west.
