Malaga Weather Blog

An eventful start to the New Year

It is now over a month since measurable rain fell here and Spring seems to be on hold awaiting the next batch of showers. Even though wet weather hasn’t featured in the headlines,  the start of the year has been interesting. On the first day of the month a maximum temperature close to 22 Celsius occurred, but it became cooler and on the morning of the 5th and the temperature was only 5 Celsius, the lowest value so far this winter. The following night was 10 degrees milder and these higher temperatures continued into the 6th. The top temperature on the 6th was 25.9 Celsius and this was one of the warmest January days for over 30 years. During the first week of January there was very little cloud but this has changed over recent days. On Monday morning the fog came as a bit of a surprise but it did clear readily and there was plenty of sunshine, but the last couple of days have been disappointingly cloudy. It’s not just the cloud that’s depressing it’s also the relentless chilly but humid wind off the sea. Fortunately it hasn’t been too strong and the local vegetation (and cars!) haven’t been caked in salt. Okay, we’ve seen the clouds, now we want the rain!.