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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:06pm
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Bad weather has been on the horizon for a few days, and AEMET - the Spanish Met. Office - have now issued an orange (Important risk) warning, with a probability of more than 80%, for Sunday until Wednesday inclusive. The following is verbatim from the warning, albeit edited and translated by myself.

Storm Gloria will be located between the eastern peninsula and the Balearic Islands, being isolated and quasi-stationary in the area for at least Sunday, tending to move later to the south.

The combination of the position of Gloria, and the powerful anticyclone cantered on the British Isles, will favour the entry of a mass of cold air from the interior of the continent, which, together with the humid air of the Mediterranean, will cause snowfalls in very low levels of the eastern peninsular.

The pressure gradient will be very intense in the Mediterranean and Balearic area, with strong or very strong north and northeast winds and gusts that could locally exceed 100/120 km/h. The state of the sea will be very adverse, with wind intervals of up to force 10, and waves that could reach 7 meters in the coastal areas of the eastern peninsula and Ibiza.

The situation will be accompanied by intense, persistent and locally strong rainfall in the same areas, with accumulations throughout the episode that could reach 150 cm.

The snowfall will be copious from about 300/500 meters in the eastern peninsular and can accumulate up to 10 cm in some areas.

El Tiempo, the other website I like after AEMET, are a bit more optimistic and are forecasting only (!) 6 cm of rain and much lower wind speeds.

Conclusion - it's impossible to accurately forecast the weather, but be prepared. If you've got anything that might suffer, like open sun umbrellas, collapse them. 


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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:02pm

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:02pm

Thanks Jim, I would like to give you a helpful vote but they only seem to be available for replies rather than the original post, or am I missing something?

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:19pm

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:19pm

Cheryl wrote on Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:02pm:

Thanks Jim, I would like to give you a helpful vote but they only seem to be available for replies rather than the original post, or am I missing something?

JIM: ........I like the  collapse ém!:

 "Conclusion - it's impossible to accurately forecast the weather, but be prepared. If you've got anything that might suffer, like open sun umbrellas, collapse them." .....Said Jim

He will - rather unfairly - always be remembered for the broadcast prior to the Great Storm of 1987, and his famous line: "Earlier on today apparently a woman rang the BBC and said she had heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well if you are watching, don't worry, there isn't."said, Michael Fish!.

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:38pm

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:38pm

Villas wrote on Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:19pm:

JIM: ........I like the  collapse ém!:

 "Conclusion - it's impossible to accurately forecast the weather, but be prepared. If you've got anything that might suffer, like open sun umbrellas, collapse them." .....Said Jim

He will - rather unfairly - always be remembered for the broadcast prior to the Great Storm of 1987, and his famous line: "Earlier on today apparently a woman rang the BBC and said she had heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well if you are watching, don't worry, there isn't."said, Michael Fish!.

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Villas, it could have been much worse . 

Instead of Collapse Them, Jim might have said    .  ' Drop Them '. !                                                           Now that sure would be worrying  😮

LeckyLes 

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:45pm

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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:45pm

LeckyLes wrote on Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:38pm:

Villas, it could have been much worse . 

Instead of Collapse Them, Jim might have said    .  ' Drop Them '. !                                                           Now t...

...hat sure would be worrying  😮

LeckyLes 

Jim´s already predictively killed off half the Santa Pola half marathon this coming Sunday. (solo una pequeña gota)

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:10am

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:10am

Thanks, Cheryl. I'd guess you weren't logged in when you looked? But it doesn't matter - people like it when I give them bad news?

Villas & Les - Just got up, settled at computer, had my first sip of life-restoring liquid, looked at this thread first, and the pair of you gave me a good laugh to start the day - thanks guys.

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:59am

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:59am

As an afterthought, if anyone wants to look at when rain is due to start or finish, look at the rainfall radar:

http://www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/observacion/radar?w=1&p=mu

Press the play button and watch the map. At the moment it's telling me it's time to get off my bum and finish bringing logs in from the poolside to the log shed.

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:07pm

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:07pm

jimtaylor wrote on Sat Jan 18, 2020 11:59am:

As an afterthought, if anyone wants to look at when rain is due to start or finish, look at the rainfall radar:

http://www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/observacion/radar?w=1&p=mu

Press the play button and watch the map. At the moment it's telling me it's time to get off my bum and finish bringing logs in from the poolside to the log shed.

So, no, ah, you're not buiding an ark? V

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:15pm

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:15pm

Once upon a time, God got fed up with the way mankind was progressing, and decided to wipe them out by drowning and start again.

He didn't want to spend time on re-creating all the animals and birds again, so he contacted the only good man he could find, and told him to build a survival ark and fill it with a breeding pair of all the creatures on Earth.

Well, Noah built his ship, and duly filled it up with pairs of all the animals and birds he could find. Unfortunately he missed out on the dragons and unicorns, who were too busy doing their own thing to want to be cooped up on a boat with other minor animals.

In due course the rains came and flooded the Earth, wiping out all the sinful mankind.

One thing that Noah hadn't considered was all the caca that the animals produced.

The ark was becalmed for a long time in one part of the flooded Earth, and every day Noah and his missus had to shovel all that caca into the ocean.

This pile of caca got ever greater, until the floods finally receded, and the winds got up, and Noah was able to let all the animals go free and get on with their lives.

As the floods receded, the pile of caca emerged from the floods.

And there it remained, until it was finally discovered by Christopher Columbus.


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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:18pm

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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:18pm

jimtaylor wrote on Sat Jan 18, 2020 12:15pm:

Once upon a time, God got fed up with the way mankind was progressing, and decided to wipe them out by drowning and start again.

He didn't want to spend time on re-creating all the animals and birds again, so he contacted the only good man he could find, and told him to build a survival ark and fill it with a breeding pair of all the creatures on Earth....

...

Well, Noah built his ship, and duly filled it up with pairs of all the animals and birds he could find. Unfortunately he missed out on the dragons and unicorns, who were too busy doing their own thing to want to be cooped up on a boat with other minor animals.

In due course the rains came and flooded the Earth, wiping out all the sinful mankind.

One thing that Noah hadn't considered was all the caca that the animals produced.

The ark was becalmed for a long time in one part of the flooded Earth, and every day Noah and his missus had to shovel all that caca into the ocean.

This pile of caca got ever greater, until the floods finally receded, and the winds got up, and Noah was able to let all the animals go free and get on with their lives.

As the floods receded, the pile of caca emerged from the floods.

And there it remained, until it was finally discovered by Christopher Columbus.


& followed the inevitable trump. V

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