Winter in Africa

[xmetman]

Winter in Africa (link)

These are the observations from the observatory on Tenerife for the last 24 hours.

[John Hall]

Lovely. :) Is that the observatory halfway up Mount Teide? If so, Wikipedia indicates that it's at about 7,000 feet. (I don't hold with these new-fangled metres.)

[Keith (Southend)]

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&ind=60010&ndays=30&ano=2018&mes=01&day=30&hora=12&ord=REV&Send=Send

https://www.volcanoteide.com/en/the_sky_of_teide/teide_observatory

Keith (Southend)

[John Hall]

Thanks, Keith. It's doing its best to imitate Mount Washington at present. :)

[Brian Wakem]

I see yesterday they had 43.2mm of precip and the temp didn't rise above zero (also peak gust of 77mph).  In fact they've had 77mm of precip now that must all be snow.  It's a shame they don't report snow depth.

[Brian Wakem]

The wind reached 99mph yesterday and the temp has been below freezing for about 10 days.  The snow must be several feet deep.

http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&ind=60010&ndays=30&ano=2018&mes=02&day=08&hora=12&ord=REV&Send=Send

[John Hall]

Impressive! It looks as though they, counter-intuitively, use pale blue for temperatures below 1C, so there have actually been a couple of days where it got just above freezing.

[Keith (Southend)]

My Mother-in-Law was in Lanzarote last week and the weather has been dire. Cold, wet at time and windy.

Keith (Southend)

[Brian Wakem]

I found the met station has a twitter account and there are some great photos on there (https://twitter.com/AEMET_Izana)