The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plains – but today it´s arrived east of Málaga! I can´t remember when it last rained in July.
Anyway, I´m sure it wont rain for long and it´s great for the garden as well as the toad who came out to enjoy the unusually damp weather!
It hardly ever rains here in the summer months. The following posts are more typical of what to expect, east of Málaga:
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East of Málaga: The Weather in Summer
The thermometer over our front door (in the shade) has reached 36 Celcius today. It´s still almost 30C at 10 o´clock at night – the sun has gone down behind the hillside and it will be dark within the next few minutes.
As well as making sure to have lots of cool drinks, we´ve spent quite a while in the pool this afternoon, cooling down.
One thing I love about hot, summer nights is the opportunity to have a swim after dark before hopping into bed. I always make sure that there are no outside lights shining from the house and, because we live in the countryside, there is virtually no light pollution.
It´s quite surreal floating about in the pool on your back on an airbed watching the stars twinkling overhead.
Yeah, yeah … I know what you´re thinking – but somebody has to do it!
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Our first autumn rains fell last week and came as a welcome relief for the parched earth. Although we have had a few rainy days, we have also been rewarded with lots of sunshine too, reminding us what a wonderful time of year this is.
[Image courtesy of Salobreña]
The cooler night-time temperatures, along with several days of intermittent rain were just the catalyst required to bring the first snowfall on the Sierra Nevada mountains, to the east of the Axarquía region.
Axarquía´s highest mountain, Maroma, still remains snow-free, as the Sierra Nevada mountains are over one thousand metres higher.
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Towards the end of August we usually start to look forward to some relief from the long hot summer. This year, we were hoping that the autumn thunderstorms would arrive on time to bring some relief for the parched ground. The normal pattern would be that these first autumn rains arrive anywhere from mid September to early October. This year has proved to be an exception, as by mid October, we still await a break in the weather.
Typically the warm sun continues towards Christmas-time with a few rainy periods in between. The autumn and early winter sun can be surprisingly warm, but this year has proved warmer and drier than normal, with virtually unbroken sunshine and temperatures between 24-28C, which would make a beautiful midsummer day in northern Europe. A by-product of this has been brilliant clear blue skies.
What is certain is that, together with May and June, the climate here during September and October can be the most pleasant of the year. Visitors from the north would still be wise to take similar precautions against the sun as in summer, but the nights are more comfortable to sleep with overnight temperatures in the range 15c to 18c compared with the low to middle twenties Celsius during July and August.
All in all, it is a wonderful time of year to visit our area to the East of Málaga.
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