{"id":486215,"date":"2026-03-20T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:36:09","slug":"storm-therese-tenerife-hit-by-snow-as-wind-and-rain-sweep-across-canary-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486215\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Therese: Tenerife hit by snow as wind and rain sweep across Canary Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spanish weather service, AEMET, has issued orange weather warnings for Tenerife, valid throughout Friday and into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern areas of the island could see wind gusts of 90-100 km\/h (56-62mph).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The southern half of Tenerife is covered by a warning for rain, with the potential that 100mm (4 in) could fall in some places over a 12 hour period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This intense rainfall will bring the risk of flooding, landslides and transport disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Tenerife Island Council &#8211; the Cabildo de Tenerife &#8211; activated its emergency plan on Wednesday, warning locals and visitors to exercise caution and to avoid unnecessary travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Temporary shelters have been set up in affected areas and access roads to the Teide National Park have been closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spanish weather service, AEMET, has issued orange weather warnings for Tenerife, valid throughout Friday and into Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-486215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}