We've seen two days of calima in the atmosphere this week but there has been no rain to bring it down, but that'll soon change, starting today.
There’s a DANA (Cut-off Low) forming in the Golf of Cádiz which will bring red rain across most of Andalucía.
Daytime temperatures have been around 28ºC on the coast and night-time temperatures in their low teens both on the coast and inland, so far.
Starting today there will be showers and downpours across Andalucía and by Thursday red dust in the rain will become more apparent.
Some meteorologists believe that it could be like the calima episode from a couple of years ago.
Come Friday the Sahara dust suspended in the air will start to move away followed by more stable weather, until the middle of next week when there will be more rain.
(News/Noticias: Andalucia)
Julie: it was a weather forecast; it was not a prophecy handed down by the Archangel. Do you remember when BBC’s Michael Fish buggered it up, forecasting fine weather and Britain got a tornado or something? It’s not just the Spanish 🙂
@Patrick
“Poor old soul Julie, she may be a sensitive soul” On yer bike mate with your insults.
@ Martin.
The article from Aemet you featured said there would be downpours
and the situation on Thursday would likely be similar to that of two years ago.
It didn’t happen.
On Thursday AEMET issued a seveve weather warning for the Granada Coast
with winds of 50-70 kmph! and waves of up to 4 metres!
It didn’t happen. La Herradura Bay was like a mill pond. How does the Spanish
State get the weather so bloody wrong?
Patrick: Julie and I were both right and both wrong: there is bucket loads of calima in the atmosphere but contrary to AEMET’s prediction, it didn’t rain and covered everything in dust… so far. And Julie is also right that I have been known to exaggerate, you’ll be surprised to learn, mind!
Oh dear Martin. Looks like you can hit all of the right, wrong buttons, for poor old Julie.
Be nice. She maybe a sensitive soul.
Alas another symptom of climatica cambiar. I painted my house orange after the last major event as do most folk across the med….. washing down houses is madness give the enduring and worsening water shortage across Andalucia/ Murcia
Julie: Yes, it was a pain and people wasted water in a drought hosing down their facades. Nobody died. It is a sign of the times. Even back 40 years ago when I came here we would get a couple of orange sunsets because we live right next door to North Africa. We often had Siroccos; hot winds sweeping in from the Sahara, too and in the summer, terrales, very hot winds from inland, pushing up night temperatures in the summer as well. Red dust in the rain is the least of our problems, the way the climate is changing.
Stating facts, as we did in the article, is not alarmism, Julie; it’s reporting on the weather. 😉
The last calima two years ago which happened a total of three times was awful. I injured my back slipping on steps. Many people had to repaint their properties and those with pools, it was a
nightmare to clean them. So yes I stick with the term alarmist!
Julie: The source is the AEMET or Agencia Española de Meteorología, which is the state weather forecasting agency.
If it rains dust, it’s not the end of the world, so I can’t see how it can be interpreted as “alarmist.”
It says, that the Saharan dust that has been in suspension for the last couple of days is going to mix in with a wet front forming in the Golf of Cádiz, which will spread across Andalucia. It’s not like we’re saying go out a build an Ark, is it?
What is the source to this article, because it is alarmist in my opinion.
Time will tell.