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After last night and subsequent damage at our rented house due to the storm. Is there please a reliable weather forecast available for Javea.

Yes I know like Sevenoaks and Michael Fish anything can and does happen but it would help if one had some idea.

thanks

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Take a look at:-

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/...st?query=javea

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this is the best one - by our local weather guy who takes his data from lots of weather stations around the town
http://www.meteoxabia.com/

btw - AEMET (the Spanish met office) has us on ORANGE ALERT for intense rain until 9pm tonight (it was the same alert yesterday) & YELLOW ALERT until 6pm tomorrow

http://www.aemet.es/imagenes_d/eltie...hoy_ccaa77.png

the alert for yesterday was very well publicised

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I believe you will find the two links above are for the same weather station

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I have always found Tu Tiempo to be reasonably accurate. Last night however they were oh so wrong. At 8.30 pm the first thunder started along with sheet lightening. I was in bed by 9 pm after having closed (all but one) of my windows and doors. I was kept awake most of the night by the rain, thunder and lightening and didn't arise until 10 am. My kitchen, living room and hallway were 3 centimeters deep in water. The torrential rain had brought down hundreds of grape leaves which blocked the central drain. Oh well, at least my lower floors are cleaner than they have been all summer.

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yep - wunderground uses one of meteoxabia's stations - but he takes data from about 9 dotted around the town for his forecasts, so they're a little more specific

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We have just had the worst storm I have seen. 43mm of rain in 20 minutes and hail the size of sugar lumps!

At the peak the rain gauge indicated 345mm an hour.

Now the sun has come out!

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I hope it's not headed our way. So far we've had nothing but two quite brief, fairly heavy but nothing exceptional, rain showers between 1.00 and 2.00 am today with some lightning a bit later on.

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Someone in Murcia was saying last night,

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It has been mainly inland today but this coast got hit. It looks like to the west of the Granada/Malaga border is clear.

That's not to say that you won't get any. This sort of weather doesn't move like a winter storm does. It is caused by very unstable air which can cause thunderstorms to pop up anywhere with little warning. They usually only cover quite a small area but sometimes a lot of individual ones can get together and wreak havoc.

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Hi
there is eltiempo where you tell it for what town
http://en.eltiempo.es/javea.html
and I like this one too
http://www.oratgenet.com/

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...or you could have just read the newspapers. They have been predicting the storms for at least 3 days:D

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yep - & even Bay Radio, which is the station most non-Spanish speaking Brits listen to, got it right!

we've had thunder & lightning all night, relentless rain, but not as intense as Wednesday night, thankfully

if Porth checks back into the forum - we're on Orange Alert til 12 noon for more intense rain & storms, dropping to Yellow alert til 6pm

atm, anyway...

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Was here rain in Spain???:p

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Indeed, there have been "alerta naranja/amarilla" for some time. Probably didn't give it in the Daily Mirror or BBC weather though!;)

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I've just had a frantic call from a friend. During the horrendous tormentas last night lightning struck a tree next to his car and the tree fell on top of it. It's a big tree and I told him to call the police.

I didn't know what else to tell him, I can only think of more bad news when it comes to the insurance claim. I'm sure he doesn't want to hear about 'an act of God'.

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I used to love watching those violent storms in Spain. Always welcomed the first rain after a dry period and a cooling of temperatures. Was like a second spring in the garden. Although we did have a water tight house:D

Just wished we had some here right now, only one downpour in about 3 months!

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Hi thanks for that. Sorry to go against you but last night at La Guardia we had a worse experience than Wednesday. Up since 03.30 and did not go back. It destroyed a computer despite everything being out a router and a water boiler. Also the fridge malfunctioned with very expensive medication in it.

Fortunate piggy back my computer against the main and have back up but all my legal stuff safe. I have lived in France for years and seen some pretty horrendous stuff including the coastal tragedies in the Vendee.

this in our opinion is the worst weather we have ever seen but those of you who are seasoned professionals say just one of those things.

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yes, I've seen photos of the flooding up your end, prolonged rain will do that - official rainfall figures prove that there truly wasn't as intense a rainfall as the previous night, but the heavy rain this morning probably made it worse

& that really was some thunder & lightning display - everyone I've seen & spoken to today seems to have been up most of the night, including me

& you're right - we do get used to it, & it's far from the worst weather we've had here in recent years - something no-one ever believes until they see it

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We've been lucky to have avoided the worst of it (so far). I hope you all are not too badly damaged. We'll see what's in store for us...

Couple of years back, we had some guests from the midwest US staying with us during what I thought was a particularly violent storm, which didn't phase them at all. They said have far more violent storms rather routinely.

I suppose it's what you get used to...

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just found the total rainfall figures for today for different areas of Jávea - from last night midnight

Granadella: 99.4 litres
Poble/Freginal: 62.8 litres
Port: 60.6 litres
Partida Roig: 59.2 litres
Tossals-Carrasquetes: 52 litres
Vivero Montgó Verd: 43.7 litres
Tarraula: 33.2 litres
Granadella: 225 litres
Port: 220.6 litres (where I am)

this has been persistent rain with a couple of fairly intense downpours

on Wednesday evening, however, in the port we had over 70 litres in less than half an hour

overall, the accumulated rain since last midnight is greater than in the previous 24, it's true, but as I said, more constant than short(ish) seriously heavy downpours


we have had much worse though, even since I've been here

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I am so glad I never drove down this week, has this been like a gotta fria or is that still to come ?

It does scare me when you get them blasts of fast and heavy downpours

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I am so glad I never drove down this week, has this been like a gotta fria or is that still to come ?

It does scare me when you get them blasts of fast and heavy downpours

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Report here of places having 100 litres, and the tragic story of a woman coming home from her sister's funeral, and her husband in his car to collect her from the bus station was seen by a neighbour being washed away over a bridge by a wall of water. He still hadn't been found.
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-manana/

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Lynne do you believe that Bay Radio give a concise or just overall scenario as to the weather. Also wind speeds in knots what are knots please surely that is a sailing term?

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A Knot is one nautical mile per hour which is equivalent to 1.15mph

It is a nautical term but is the most commonly used meteorological unit of measurement of wind speed.

Other less common units are metres/second and km/hr.

Incidentally rainfall in Spain is usually quoted as litres/sq metre but if you want to express it in similar terms to the UK measurement then 100litres/m2 is the same as 100mm of rain or 3.94 inches of rain.

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no - Bay radio is imo pretty rubbish, but they were telling listeners about the weather warnings

anyway, the sun is out again & even my friend who had hunky & not so hunky firemen pumping out her terrace & underbuild until late last night is drying out!

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our local weather guy uses km/h

I once heard bay radio use the same figures but say mph :eek: