Good weather in Tenerife and other Canary Islands.

In the past 20 years in the Canary Islands were one of the most important tourist destinations for Europeans in search of warmer winter, without going too far.

Of course weather is a key consideration for any location trying to establish itself as a holiday destination and the Canaries are almost great in Europe in benefitting from warm dry weather for most of the year.

The duration of the good weather is also very important in terms of how important a place for all companies to rely on tourism.

In that respect the Canaries are also amongst the best locations in Europe, having a long summer season in addition to a busy and successful winter season.

Of course, its position in Europe is unique in that they are more than 600 miles south of the nearest part of mainland Europe and much closer to the North African countries of Morocco and Western Sahara.

It is the Sahara desert that brings the dry weather to the Canary Islands and makes the chance of rain very slim as the wind blown across the expanses of the Sahara has been heated before reaching the islands, which means that the temperature of the air of the islands very warm and can be described as heat-dried.

The Saharan winds can however whip up clouds of dusty air and carry them across the sea to the Canaries. These are most common in February and March and are usually not a big problem, especially not in times of major tourist influx.

The weather systems that produce and control the area around the islands is made up of several important components. In addition to the impact of the Sahara, as already mentioned, the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, a major contribution.

This warm drift of Atlantic Ocean water starts in the Gulf of Mexico and travels quickly across the Atlantic towards Europe and North Western Africa where it re-circulates.

The impact of the tail of the Gulf Stream the climate is said to affect this part of the world. More specifically when the Gulf Stream reaches Europe it becomes known as the North Atlantic Drift and splits into two parts.

The northern part, the high in the list flows along the west coast of Ireland and substantially contributes to the higher temperatures, while the southern part (also known as the current Canary Islands) is a little less significant effect because the warmer temperatures are already in this part of the Eastern Atlantic.

Other than the higher altitude volcanic regions that caused the creation of the islands originally, some 3 million years ago, there are no other high mountain areas anywhere near the Canaries. This Prevents each creation frequent wet, of course, from the East, so that all the rain clouds are driven usually in the form of the Atlantic and to the islands from the West.

The warm re-circulating Gulf Stream air has the effect of diverting most of the wet weather systems to the north before they reach the Canaries, leading to dry conditions for most of the time. Of course, the islands are not entirely without rain, otherwise they would not be as successful in the field of agriculture.

There are still significant producers of several crops such as bananas and tomatoes, but these are typically fruits that require long spells of dry days full of sunshine, as is often found on the islands. The wettest month of the Canary Islands is in December with the summer months of June, July and August have little rain.

In terms of temperature, cold weather does not occur either.

Average daily temperatures rarely below 15 degrees Celsius, even during the winter and maximum daily temperatures reach up to twenty degrees centigrade in some part of the year.

So the holiday islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and La Palma really do have the benefit of weather patterns unique amongst European countries and as such they are set to remain as very popular tourist destinations for years to come.

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