The Spanish Meteorological Service AEMET recorded 50.4 litres rain per square metre in San Mateo on Gran Canaria during Storm Bruna. These rainfall figures are based on data from the Corral de los Juncos station; the figure applies to Sunday between 7.25 am and 11 pm. During this period, no other station operated by the meteorological service recorded higher rainfall.
According to AEMET, there are no longer any weather warnings in force for the Canary Islands. Most recently, Tenerife and La Palma had been under an orange alert for Sunday, valid until midnight at the latest.
San Mateo was followed by Telde-Centro Forestal Doramas with 33 litres, Agaete, Suerte Alta with 31.6 litres, La Aldea de San Nicolás with 29.4 litres and Agaete-Casco with 26.4 litres per square metre. All five of these highest figures were therefore recorded on Gran Canaria, and in San Mateo a large proportion of the rainfall fell within the space of an hour.
Storm Bruna in the Canary Islands: Highest hourly wind speeds and gusts
The Corral de los Juncos station recorded just over half of its total rainfall – namely 25.7 litres per square metre – within a single hour. In Telde-Centro Forestal Doramas, the hourly figure stood at 21.4 litres, accounting for just under two-thirds of the total rainfall there. Third place for the hourly figure went to the Teror-Osorio station on Gran Canaria, which recorded 19.4 litres per square metre.
La Gomera led the way in terms of wind: at the Vallehermoso-Alto Igualero station, the AEMET recorded a gust of 117 kilometres per hour during the same period. On Tenerife, Bruna’s storm gusts reached 112 kilometres per hour at both the Cañadas Parador and Izaña stations.
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