The strong winds that we have been having along the coast and inland wrought havoc in Torre de Mar, bringing down feria lighting etc.

It was yesterday at five in the morning that a ‘heat burst’ tore through the fairground next to the Rio Vélez river mouth.

The Spanish meteological term for this phenomenon is reventón cálido and the corresponding English term is heat burst.

Heat bursts are relatively rare, atmospheric night-time, weather events characterised by strong gusting winds, a rapid increase in surface temperature at a short, down pour, as a thunderstorm dissipates.

The strong wind brought down posts supporting feria illumination, as well as a 30-metre section of a wall belonging to the secondary school, IES Joaquín Lobato in Torre del Mar.

Nobody was injured as the fairground had closed by a few hours earlier. Rainfall was minimal although more fell in Lagos (6.5L per sq/m.).

The heat burst was also felt, but to a lesser degree, in Nerja and Frigiliana.

(News: Torre del Mar, Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)