The Canarian government has put the Canary Islands on the maximum alert level from 2PM today due to the imminent adverse weather conditions set to hit the Canaries this weekend. Specifically hurricane style high winds have been predicted. Schools have been closed and the authorities are recommending not to travel unless absolutely necessary. The areas [...]
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‘Orange’ Weather warning for Canaries
Posted by Canaries News on February 24th, 2010
Another ‘Orange’ weather warning has been issued by the State Met agency for this Friday 26th Feb 2010 and Saturday 27th February 2010 with forecasts of wind up to 100km/h is higher areas of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Palma.
‘Orange’ weather alert continues
Posted by Canaries News on February 16th, 2010
The ‘orange’ weather alert continues in the Canary Islands as over 5.000 people have had their travel plans disrupted as inter-island flights have been cancelled for a second day. Winds of up to 120km/h have been recorded this morning in northern parts of Tenerife. Yesterday 69 interisland flights were cancelled due to the bad weather. [...]
Tenerife estimates storm damages of €11.300.000
Posted by Canaries News on February 4th, 2010
The Cabildo de Tenerife (Tenerife Council) estiamtes that the damages caused to the councils infrastructure by the recent storms have caused, in an initial estimate, up to €11.300.000. €2.900.000 of this amount is in damages to the roads infrastructure. The president of the Cabildo, Ricardo Melchior went on to congratulate the different services for their [...]
Canaries storms – The aftermath
Posted by Canaries News on February 2nd, 2010
The Canary Islands population feared another 31st March 2002 (when 6 people were killed in a storm that hit the islands) when the last few days a storm hit the islands causing chaos. This time there have been no injuries but the bad weather has caused serious problems to the islands infrastructure. Cancelled flights, stranded [...]
