It is difficult to understand why access to Muchavista beach, in El Campello, is allowed, while access to San Juan beach, in the neighboring municipality of Alicante, is prohibited from five this afternoon. There is no physical separation between the two, we are talking about the same sandy area, but the prevention against meteorological warnings is not the same in the different town halls.
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Hence, while town councils such as those of Alicante, Orihuela or Guardamar del Segura have opted to close the beaches due to the forecast of strong winds, there is no such limitation on the beaches of Elx, Santa Pola or Torrevieja; Benidorm or Finestrat have announced that they will respond to the evolution of the weather.
Benidorm or Finestrat have announced that they will respond to the evolution of the weather
In addition to raising the red flag in El Postiguet, San Juan, Albufereta, Saladares, La Almadraba and San Gabriel, Alicante City Council has requested the removal of umbrellas and other mobile elements that may be affected by the wind. The Guardamar del Segura City Council has reported the possibility of warm downbursts occurring – like those that occurred on Tuesday in Elda and Petrer causing trees to fall – with very strong gusts of wind and hail.
This occurs on a day when the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has decreed a red warning (extraordinary danger) on the southern coast of Alicante and the southern coast of Valencia due to maximum temperatures of 42 degrees, along with an orange warning for storms with very strong wind gusts and probable hail on the coast of Alicante, while in the interior of the province these storms will have a yellow warning (low danger).
“It is an environment more typical of tropical latitudes than ours,” say experts from the University of Alicante
The climatology laboratory of the University of Alicante published an analysis of the situation on its social networks this afternoon, according to which “today is probably being the toughest day of the year so far in terms of heat. Perhaps you are suffocated and when you look at a thermometer you have been surprised to see that the temperature does not exceed 40 ºC, but today we are having values of more than 30-35 ºC with very high humidity in areas of the pre-coastal and coastal areas, which triggers the feeling of mugginess.”
Alicante experts point out that the estimated thermal sensation “is more than 40-50 ºC in points of the coast and pre-coast, exceeding that of the interior. It is an environment more typical of tropical latitudes than ours, but it must be taken into account that the waters of the Mediterranean are once again close to 30 ºC this summer, to which must be added a very warm air mass.”
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