What's with the Weather lately????

I hope all of you who have endured the rain in Spain will be spared any future catastrophes.....scary stuff.

Does the old saying the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain apply here or are you in the hilly/mountainous regions?

Stay safe you guys - any chance that your rogue British builder will be named and shamed in your vacinity? It may provide an incentive to get his act together.....

On another point, it never fails to amaze me that the roofs and gutters in Spain are not designed to cope with these heavy downpours, nor the street drains. In a potentially changing weather environment it begs the question whether new building standards should be brought into play? Is that a laughable suggestion in Spain? Having said that my Aunty who had a place in Mijas many moons ago suffered several road flooding incidents, so it may not necessarily be a case of changing weather patterns at all, merely that the infrastructure has never been designed to cope.

Hi Ads, what are street drains and gutters?  Spain has not figured out how important these are when we have such deluges such as yesterdays.

We are 'on the plain'. Unfortunately roads tend to have dips where water collects & round here the edges have deep gulleys made of concrete & if cars go off the edge you have one very sorry car!

In Quesada near us the area is very hilly, VERY HILLY! Some properties land has moved after bad rains & they are subsiding & falling down the hills! For this reason we didn't buy in the hilly area.

ads

building standards in Spain??.   Is there even a translation for that?  Despite Spain's lovely climate, it does have a fair bit of the wet stuff and cold.  As with other issues, they build crap not suited to the conditions because they can get away with it!

morerosado

oh yes, no doubt our usually crappy UK summer weather will be back to normal fairly soon, and Spain lovely summer weather likewise.

Morerosado/Goodstich,

I know the answer, get an RV and travel around............ (assuming you don't fall down the concrete gulleys).

Why aren't you watching the footie?

Why aren't you watching the footie?

I am ... kind  ... hubby has it on.

Hot off the press?

TOMORROW will see the official start of what is expected to be one of the hottest summers on record.

Despite 'mid-summer' falling two days later, the official beginning of summer in Spain is on June 21 at 13.28hrs.

This is also the longest day, with 15 hours of daylight, compared to nine hours on the shortest day, December 22.

Summer is also the longest season of the year in Spain, lasting 93 days and 15 hours.

Mid-week, average temperatures are expected to rise to around 35ºC.

Despite forecasts showing that summer 2010 will be one of the hottest in more than a decade, it is expected to involve a number of storms and short spells of rain to clear the atmosphere.

 here in Spain

The Spanish State Meteorological Agency says temperatures will be between 1 and 2 degrees higher than average

The summer, which begins at 1332 on Monday, will be between one and two degrees hotter than normal according to the long-range weather forecast just released by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency.
AEMET spokesman, Ángel Rivera, described the expected anomaly in temperatures as ‘important’ and made reference to the ‘famous summer of 2003’ with its frequent heat waves.

The forecast says that the next three months will be ‘markedly warm’ both across the mainland and on the two groups of islands. It also is expected to be drier than normal and AEMET has given their own prediction a 70% chance of accuracy.

Spring this year in Spain has been the second coolest of the 21st century, warmer only than in 2004, in a world scenario where April has been the hottest April since 1880 with an average temperature of 14.5º, 1.37º higher than the average since records began.

Rain in Spain since October has been clearly higher than normal. To June 15 the average rainfall reached 701 litres per square metre, 159 litres more than the average, 29% more than normal.

It's been noticeably cooler this spring/summer so far this year.  It's about 10c below what it was last year, but I'm not complaining as it's just nice.