Autum and Winter in Canary Island

[Cencello]

Hi,..excuse me, but my english is not very good.

Canary Islands (Tenerife)
During Autumn and Winter season the weather has been more wet.

1.- In August it had thunderstorm with a tropical origin. My station It registered 25 mm of moderate and persisten rain with thunderstorm. The weather it´s not normaly in this region during the summer.

Others episodes this rain type we registered during the autunm but without thunderstorm.

2.- 28 November: The Tropical Storm DELTA affected the Islands. We record 155 km/h sustained winds 600 meter over terrain.
At 2300 meter level over the sea (Izaña Montain) the anemometer got 250 km/h wind being this amount the top which this machine can mesure.
See DELTA photograph selection http://www.acanmet.org.es/reportajes/TTDelta/1.html

3.- I think that this anomaly year due to La Niña phenomen. This season is similar anomaly rain occured during 1995-1996.

I hope you have understood me.

Bye.

[nholley]

You must get some of the best weather in the Canaries, it always seems sunny.

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Never been there, but I'd love to go. Don't know much about the local Climate, but would love to learn. I do know that you guys get occasional subtropical/hybrid storms that tap into the moisture off Western Africa. One of these systems tends to end the Cape Verde tropical wave Season in the Fall of most years. Interesting place you call home Cencello.

[Coredesat]

Those pictures of Tropical Storm Delta are interesting. Thanks for posting the link.

[Cencello]

Ok...more information about of DELTA here:

http://meteo.viajesinsular.es/fichas/20 ... /delta.htm

Visit our web site:

http://www.acanmet.es

Canary Islands are a seven islands and your climate is very diferent.

Tenerife islands is a the bigger. The volcano Teide has a 3718 meter over the sea. The terrain is very abrupt.

[j antonio]

Hello, I also live in Canary Islands , I am a friend of cencello.
You can get information about others storms what had visited Canary Islands in
http://meteo.viajesinsular.es/fichas

From 2002. It is inside Acanmet web page
http://www.acanmet.es
Thanks

[BReb]

The Canary Islands are the only islands in the world with the potential to destroy the eastern seaboard of the US. Specifically, the island of La Palma could collapse with the next volcanic eruption sending a tsunami across the Atlantic that would make the Indian Ocean tsunami seem like child's play.

[Cencello]

The Canary Islands are the only islands in the world with the potential to destroy the eastern seaboard of the US. Specifically, the island of La Palma could collapse with the next volcanic eruption sending a tsunami across the Atlantic that would make the Indian Ocean tsunami seem like child's play.

Canary Island is not dangerous for US. This affirmation is not valid actually because is not supported with models wave.

Please, you write about this topic., Outum and Winter...bla,bla...thank you.

Excuse me my bad English.

[BReb]

"Canary Island is not dangerous for US. This affirmation is not valid actually because is not supported with models wave. Please, you write about this topic., Outum and Winter...bla,bla...thank you."

A bit testy, arent we? Well, since you challenged my statement I would note that, while there is no certainty what would happen if La Palma collapsed, many scientists feel it would be catastrophic to the eastern US. I've researched this topic and am aware of the group of scientists who feel the wave would not be catastrophic at all, but the truth is that no one knows for sure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/20 ... anda.shtml

The western flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano would slide down westwards into the Atlantic ocean. There would be very strong earthquakes across La Palma while the flank was sliding. As the flank slid into the sea, it would create a very large wave called a mega-tsunami. This wave would move rapidly westwards.

Most of the energy of the wave would head straight out across the Atlantic towards the United States, Bahamas and the Caribbean, but a smaller wave or waves would head in other directions too. All these waves would get smaller as they cross the Atlantic. However scientists believe that they could still be as much as 50 metres high, for example, when they reach the east coast of the United States.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/scien ... idal.wave/


Previous research by Dr Simon Day, of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London predicted that a future eruption of Cumbre Vieja was likely to cause the western flank of the mountain to slide into the sea.

The energy released by the collapse would be equal to the electricity consumption of the entire U.S. in six months.

With Dr Steven Ward, from the University of California, Dr Day has produced a new model that predicts more accurately how big the tsunami will be and where it will strike.

Immediately after the landslide, a dome of water almost 900 metres (3,000 ft) high and tens of kilometres wide will form, only to collapse and rebound.

Its first target was expected to be the West Saharan coast of Morocco, where the wave would measure a devastating 330ft from crest to trough.

Propelled by a series of crests and troughs, the tsunami would travel a distance of almost 155 miles in just 10 minutes, the model predicts.

Racing at the speed of a jet aircraft, it would reach Florida and the Caribbean in eight or nine hours.

A wall of water 164ft high -- higher than Nelson's column in London's Trafalgar Square -- would smash into the coasts of Florida and the Caribbean islands, the forecast predicts.

[nholley]

A bit testy, arent we?

I don't think he is testy, it is just the way Spanish is directly translated inton English.

On the subject of the dangers, aren't the men in the know totally split down the middle on this?

[Cencello]

The Canary Islands are the only islands in the world with the potential to destroy the eastern seaboard of the US. Specifically, the island of La Palma could collapse with the next volcanic eruption sending a tsunami across the Atlantic that would make the Indian Ocean tsunami seem like child's play.

Bred, I know this subject about the la Palma's tsunami, but I think that these investigate is like yoy say that a meteorite can landed over the sea generating a big wave. Is it likely? Probable? I think that it is the question.

Very bad English...ji,ji..sorry!!.

Message edited at 21:51 h UTC

[palmero]

Hello
this is my first post here in this forum, im from La Palma and i think that these theory about that my island could colapse, sending a big tsunami to U.S. is not safe, it could happens, but it will happens the next thousand or million years, so is not something that can happen tomorrow or next years, La Palma is a safe place nowadays and is safe too for de United States


Ray

[Stephanie]

Welcome to our Canary Island friends!

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

You know I find it funny how all the Cable Channels have these doomsday programs about things like Super Tsunamis or Asteroids that may never happen (or at least not for thousands, or even millions of years), but they tend to over look things like hurricanes that can happen any year. The East Coast from NYC North may never face this killer Tsunami, but they will one day face a killer Hurricane (Cat. 3 or 4).

[bob rulz]

Because the things they document that could happen would be a hell of a lot more devastating than any hurricane.

Anyway, while all of this is interesting, I don't know what it has to do with the climate of the Canary Islands.

[vbhoutex]

This thread is about Winter and Autumn in the Canary Islands. If we want to discuss the possible problem with La Palma collapsing, let's take it to anouther thread please.

Please tell us more about how the weather is in the Canary Islands during the Winter and Autumn.

And Welcome to STORM2K!!!!!

[Cencello]

Totally in agreement with vbhoutex.

During this Autumn and Winter we have had few Saharan air invasions. During the El Niño episodes these situations are more frequent (Saharan air invasions).
The other hand, this year, with La Niña episode and an almost negative NAO has been an Autumn and Winter rainy.

Although the storms in the Canary Islands are not frequent, this season we have not had many storms in the islands.