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NERJA was hit by a surprise onslaught of rain and hail yesterday which turned the streets into rivers. 

In just 15 minutes, 15 litres of water per square metre fell onto the town.

In footage shared on social media, water can be seen gushing along the streets, carrying bins and benches.

 

The hardest hit areas were the streets surrounding the historic centre.

Dozens of businesses were flooded but there is thought to be no serious property damage.

 

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LETTUCE: Farmers are under threat

FARMERS in southern Spain fear they may lose their position as the top exporters in Europe after successive hot and dry seasons.

It comes after AEMET revealed last year was the hottest and one of the driest on record, and after climate groups warned of 70% desertification of Spain in global warming is not addressed immediately.

“This year we are seeing what we already feared,” said Jesús Abenza, commercial director of the Murcia-based cooperative Alimer.

“In order to maintain their production volumes this season to be able to meet the current demand, the producers of leafy vegetables, broccoli and cauliflower from Murcia and Alicante have sought new growing areas to ensure a stable water supply.

“However, these are located at higher altitudes than Murcia, which entails other risks in autumn and winter, such as excessive cold, with frosts at specific times or excessive winds.

As a result, the stability in the production and the strict compliance of supply programs may be jeopardised, causing prices to fluctuate more sharply.”

“It is very difficult to build commercial business relationships with customers as we had been doing in recent years, and yet it is very easy for them to switch to other origins if there are problems with the supply,” he adds.

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Is on the agenda for Madrid

MADRID is planning to have its greenest year ever under an ambitious 30-point plan.

The plan is called Plan A, ‘because there is no plan b’, according to mayor of the capital Manuela Carmena.

The city will start doubling its sidewalks at the end of January to give pedestrians an extra 58,000 square feet of space and a segregated bike lane along the Gran Via.

June will see the debut of the Zero Emissions Zone, which will only allow local residents, people with limited mobility, or zero-emissions vehicles to drive into most of the old city.

Between June and 2020, people who own or rent one of the few central parking spots will also be allowed access, but from 2020 on they will only be allowed to park there if they have a zero-emissions vehicle.

The city is also doubling its number of bikeshare bikes and extending docking stations for the first time beyond the M30 beltway.

The city forecasts a 20% drop in car usage by 2020.

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TORNADO: Rips through land in Almeria

THIS is the moment a tornado tore through southern Spain.

The freak weather feature ripped through greenhouses and crops in Ejido and El Alquian in Almeria on January 6.

The twister devastated some 150 hectares and caused €40 million worth of damage.
Many of the farmers had not started harvesting, so their economic losses will be greater.

“All life fighting for nothing,” lamented a farmer in the video.

The clip shows plastic sheets being ripped from buildings while residents screamed.

“Look, look, look, look … It’s taking everything!” Shouted a man while recording with his phone.

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DESERTIFICATION: A threat for Spain in the future

SPAIN had its hottest year on record last year and climate change is ‘now noticeable’, weather agency AEMET has said.

Some seven areas in Andalucia and the south – Badajoz, Jaén, Granada, Córdoba Ciudad Real and Cáceres – posted new all-time temperature records in July.

The airport in Granada was the hottest spot in the country in 2017, reaching an official high of 45.7ºC on July 12, a full 2.7C higher than that weather station’s previous record, back in 1972.

“2017 was an extremely warm year in Spain: the average annual temperature was the highest in the historical record, with an average temperature of 16.2ºC, a value that is 1.1ºC higher than the annual average,” said AEMET.

“Of the ten warmest years in Spain since 1965, seven have been in years of the 21st Century and five of those have been in the current ten-year period that began in 2011. (It seems climate change is now noticable).”

Night-time minimum temperatures during the summer period also broke records, with temperatures in the early hours at the start of August not dipping below 26ºC in Madrid, 27ºC in Alicante or a sweltering 28.9ºC on the Balearic Islands.

The previous highs in all of these places were prior to 1978, and in two places—Zamora and Alicante—the 1930s.

More than 40 weather stations recorded record annual average highs.
The Spanish Met Office also described 2017 as a ‘very dry’ year with much lower rainfall across the country.

“Average rainfall in Spain was around 474mm, 27% lower than the annual average in the reference period between 1981 and 2010,” it said.

The figures mean 2017 was the second driest year since 1965, only beaten by 2005, when average rainfall dropped to 468mm.

“In an area between Palencia and Valladolid, another in western Extremadura and in parts of the Canary Islands, rainfall didn’t even reach half of its normal level.”

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WILDFIRES: Are becoming increasingly common

SINCE the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 195 countries, deforestation has resulted in a loss of land mass to cover the whole of Spain, equal to 493,716 square kilometres.

According to new data released by Global Forest Watch (GFW) deforestation has decimated the equivalent of the surface of Spain and accounts for 10 to 15% of global carbon emissions.

2017 has seen more wildfires on more continents than any other time in history.

Dubbed ‘wildfire season,’ Iberian fires across Portugal and north western Spain claimed the lives of 49 people and the Lucifer heat wave that struck the Med this summer killed five as temperatures soared to 40 degrees centigrade.  

GFW research associate Liz Goldman said: “Forests are fundamentally hard to protect – they are in remote frontiers or in countries with weak governance.”

Adding: “But this doesn’t mean deforestation pledges are not having an impact – many of these agreements are still at an early stage.”

Since 2001 the GFW have tracked tree loss but in 2015 things took a dip, particularly New Guinea where deforestation jumped 70% as oil companies plundered the land.

Then in 2016 fires across the globe plummeted tree stocks by 51% and 2016 was one of the hottest years on record, just like 2017.

As hotter drier forests are harder to put out, the recent Californian wildfire in December was their third largest in history.

The scale of tree loss means more still needs to be done, according to Goldman.

“These large-scale fires damage the forests’ natural structure, affect the habitats of plant and wildlife, and release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air,” she said.

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NEW LAW: Will help protect whales in the Med

A SPECIAL whale corridor has been agreed upon at the Barcelona Convention (COP 20) in Albania.

Stretching from the Balearics to the eastern coastlines of Catalunya and Valencia, the 45,000 square kilometre corridor will become a protected area allowing fin whale to migrant to their north Mediterranean feeding grounds in peace.

Known as the Corridor of the Mediterranean, the area will also help protect sperm whales, bottlenose dolphins, striped dolphins and the loggerhead turtle as well as various species’ of bird.

In an effort to stave off oil exploration in the area whose sounds disrupt whale life, Spain is also pushing ahead with a proposal to designate four species of deep-sea Anthozoa coral as endangered.

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REPLANTING: The trees that fell during Storm Ana

STORM Ana brought chaos to the streets of Malaga as fallen trees blocked off roads.

Malaga town hall has said it will replace up to 9,000 trees that are deemed high risk because their chances of surviving another storm are low.

Alameda Principal, known for its long lines of trees, was particularly damaged with only four trees along the whole stripe are deemed healthy enough.

The town hall hopes to replace all high-risk trees within the next 25 years.

Wind gusts of 100 kilometres per hour resulted in 40 trees being uprooted, with one injuring a 63-year-old woman as emergency services dealt with 100 incidents.

Malaga airport also came to a standstill as several flights were cancelled and redirected.

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ENERGY NORDIC: New energy needs for the new year

BRITS can now fuel their homes with 100% green energy.

Danish-owned Energy Nordic in Fuengirola has been offering a 100% guaranteed green energy service for the past three years.

But now the company, which uses English as their lingua franca, are offering the first English-speaking energy service for expats for their energy bills, correspondence, and individual price plans.

“The Spanish energy market is dominated by two or three big fellers, nobody understands the bills and everybody is complaining about paying too much,” says customer service manager Marianne Dahlgaard.

“We’re focusing locally, but the response we’ve had has been nationwide.”

The 48-year-old says Energy Nordic has three price plans: fixed product, flex product and flat rate.

All three are 100% green energy but the flex product, Dahlgaard told the Olive Press, will save you the most money in the long run, as prices change depending on the position of the Spanish market.

Although customers pay a slightly higher rate, the difference goes towards funding renewable energy sources, including solar panels, and wind turbines across Spain.

“We’re here to make it as personalised as possible,” she continues, which means UK customers can pay with UK credit cards.

CEO Jesper Wagner added that changing your energy supplier is a lot easier in Spain as you just send your information to a different energy distributor and one to three weeks later it is changed.

In 2018 the company hopes to be providing energy to the Balearics and Canary Islands, where there is a ‘waiting list for Mallorca’.

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THE European Commission has slammed the Spanish government for its ‘very limited’ plans to promote environmentally-friendly cars.

In a new report criticising Spain’s efforts to go green, the Commission says not enough resources are being allocated for long-term plans to encourage car manufacturers to meet goals set by the EU.

This comes after the government announced a €35 million cash injection, under the MOVALT plan, to promote alternative cars in Spain.

However, the Commission feels these initiatives do not go far enough, describing them as ‘very limited in time and budget’.

And say not including the number of charging points in their plans for 2020 is a ‘violation of a basic requirement of a directive’.

At present, the EU has 118,000 public charging points for electric vehicles, while in Spain there are 12,883 and by 2020 they hope to have between 38,000 and 150,000 to reach 2.6 million by 2030

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A MASSIVE cleanup is underway to save sand dunes along the Costa del Sol from being ruined by invasive plant species.

Malagueña Forestal, the company in charge of the cleanup are targeting the dune reserves of Artola-Cabopino, La Adelfa and Rio Real.  

Rio Real is the worst hit, and Forestal workers are removing canes, weeds, acacia, yucca, agave and castor oil plants in an effort to preserve the dunes ecosystem.

Marbella town hall is spending €22,000 on the weeding and in La Adelfa the team will be pruning 63 pine trees, and 57 broom shrubs while in Artola-Cabopino, canes and acacias will be taken away.

“All of these species are invasive and stop the growth of indigenous plants in the dunes,” says environment councillor Manuel Cardena.

He also claims that the dunes in Marbella are the ‘only healthy ones in the whole of Malaga province’ and the town hall have issued brochures to educates the public about the dunes.  

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Exercising should be a regular and daily practice because the benefits it brings to our body are innumerable. In order to get the fitness in a proper way, you need a fitness expert. Anyway, before starting, you should have clear, a set of guidelines that will greatly facilitate a correct execution and the achievement of the objectives set.

The moment comes that you entered the gym for the first time. This is when you are about to explore a world that many times you think you dominate much more than you really control.

This would be the moment in which you should consider the fact of going to a professional who will guide you in the matter and help you to get to the point you have set out to achieve.

It is very good and very important to hire an entrenador personal en Valencia. Here we will try to explain the importance of hiring the services of a fitness expert to be able to perform all the exercises in the appropriate manner and, above all, not to give up trying and move along the right path.

Reasons why you hire a personal trainer:

• You have been training for the same time and you do not see results: There are many ways to train the same muscle that you may not know and with which you could strengthen your muscle groups, so it would be important to give you some guidelines or make you some appropriate routines.
• You do not know if you perform the exercises in the right way: One of the first premises will be to avoid injuries. Therefore, under proper supervision to correct any vice when performing the exercises, you will achieve better results and without risk to your health.
• You do not have much availability: With the help of a fitness Valencia that fits your schedules, you will not have excuses. Any space will be good to carry out your training.
• You have a health problem: It would be important for you to carry out a specialized program to avoid any type of ailment.
• You do not see changes in your physical condition or in your health: The key is to have a well-structured training program adapted to your needs. It would be essential to hire the services of a fitness expert.
• You are not able to see your improvements: Having a coach that controls certain technical aspects such as muscle mass, fat, etc. you will see your evolution in a proven and reliable way.
• You do not have enough motivation: The desire is fundamental, so it would be very important to have the support of a professional that encourages us to continue and to continue with the same day’s illusion.

Therefore, far from self-training, it will be highly recommended to have the help of a fitness expert, who is able to take advantage of you in a more efficient way and enable you to achieve what you propose in a fast and reliable way. Obviously, precio entrenador personal will be higher than normal, but it is worth.

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