The heat wave and the presence of haze in Gran Canaria intensified this Wednesday with the arrival of smoke and ash from the fires in Canada, although it is “difficult” at the moment to discern between episode of aerosols and dust that the island suffers.
“It will be from Friday that the Canary Islands Air Quality Control and Monitoring Network will be able to analyze what proportion there are of desert aerosols generated by the haze and what proportion there are of bound particles Canadian fires,” David Suárez said yesterday. Territorial delegate of the National Meteorological Agency (Aemet) in the Canary Islands.
These aerosols moved, explained the expert, depending on the weather conditions and the atmospheric circulation, “passing first through the Iberian Peninsula, especially Galicia and Portugal, and now moving towards the Canary Islands“. In principle “we don’t see anything remarkable because we don’t have anything beyond normal haze,” Suárez added.
The heat, on the other hand, has not stopped on the island since this Wednesday morning when Aemet listed Las Tirajanas in San Bartolomé de Tirajana (37.7) and Teror (37.5) as the first and second hottest city in Spainsome positions that by mid-morning occupied other towns on the peninsula, displacing Las Tirajanas in fifth place.
The embarrassment that Gran Canaria is suffering, which will remain on orange alert until this Thursday due to highs of 37 degrees, especially in central and inland regions and the haze will not subside “until tomorrow, Friday, when there will be a massive air change with a drop in temperatures, the day it will fall to the yellow level,” Suárez said.
However, temperatures began to moderate around 3:00 p.m. in some areas of Gran Canaria, such as Las Tirajanas station, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, which touched 40 degrees on Tuesday and this Wednesday at noon it tolerated 37 .7 degrees, followed by Teror with 37.5 and Tejeda, which went from 38.4 to 36.2 degrees. Cuevas del Pinar and Lomo Pedro Alfonso, in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, where the mercury also marked this Tuesday between 35.2 and 33.2, respectively, has been reduced to 34 and 32 degrees.
health incidents
The Ministry of Health maintains its advice due to the impact that these high temperatures can have on the health of the population and maintains the red notice this Wednesday and Thursday in five municipalities: Agüimes, Mogán, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Santa Lucía de Tirajana and Aldea de San Nicolás. For six other municipalities, the orange notice among which Artenara, Ingenio, Santa Brígida, Tejeda, Telde, Valsequillo and Vega de San Mateo.
The Health Administration considers that all these advisories will be active in more than half of the towns of Gran Canaria, until Thursday
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