Weather Warnings, their colour and their meaning: there appears to be some confusion over the current state of the warning level for the coastal area of Malaga Province from East of Malaga City through to Manilva taking in the Guadalhorce Valley. This area is officially called Sol y Guadalhorce and is one of four official weather reporting areas as defined by the Spanish Government for Malaga (for the other areas see previous post today by myself). As I write this post the warning level is Amber, the lowest warning level identifying an increased risk of heavy rainfall and a separate adviso of Amber for increased risk of thunderstorms both of which are for a period from Friday afternoon through for a 24 hour period. There are two further levels of warning, Orange and then Red. Now, there is no argument on this but the AEMET National Weather Service is the official service for issuing warnings and those warnings are what is used to upgrade the alert status of the emergency services. In laymans terms An Amber basically means a possibility of weather disruption, Orange highly likely and Red imminent. Now an Amber (yellow if you want) can be upgraded rapidly and that is why, if you want to try and stay forewarned, when bad weather comes monitor the AEMET site. Some other weather orientated web sites have their own colour coding, some of which offer a rainbow of levels, but AEMET follows the European Standard adopted by the weather services and therefore these should be the only warnings we should relate to on this page. However, it is fair that people can post what is being seen on other weather sites but any raised colour or unrecognised colour needs to be cross referenced with the official AEMET weather service. Please also remember that any Weather Warning, regardless of colour, is a prediction only and can and often changes.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:58:54 +0000
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