Yellow Alert for strong winds in Tenerife

Just a day before the main parade of Carnaval and, again, the weather is threatening to ruffle the feathers of Carnaval goers as a state of yellow alert was declared today in Tenerife.

The predictions for today were for very cloudy skies with a probability of light rain in the western islands and the east of La Palma, temperatures without change, but with the likelihood of winds, variable in strength from breezes on the south coasts to strong gusts reaching 75 kmph in the peaks of La Palma, La Orotava and Vilaflor.

At this end of the island, at least, the winds have dropped considerably since lunch time and the sun has finally poked his head out in a mostly blue sky, but we'll be keeping a very keen eye on this and firmly crossing our fingers that, despite the predictions that this weather front is likely to persist, at least, until Friday, that it will not be enough to upset the Carnaval program as it did last year.

Heaven knows, this year's Carnaval has suffered enough setbacks already.

El INM declara la alerta amarilla en Santa Cruz de Tenerife por fuertes vientos
Alerta amarilla por fuertes vientos en la provincia tinerfeña