Monday, 01 February 2016 09:55

Gran Canaria Weather: Another Sunny Week, Farmers Start To Panic

Gran Canaria will be sunny this week with some high cloud Gran Canaria will be sunny this week with some high cloud www.photosgrancanaria.com

FEBRUARY 2016, WEEK ONE: The rain forecast for last weekend hardly showed up in Gran Canaria and this week will be mostly sunny. 

The skies this week over most of Gran Canaria will be blue with a few high clouds (not enough to stop you getting a tan on the beaches). 

Temperatures this week will be about standard for winter in Gran Canaria: Up to 28ºC on the beaches during the day and dropping to 17ºC late at night.

Drought in south Gran Canaria

There is still no sign of any rain heading towards Gran Canaria; This winter has been one of the driest on record and south Gran Canaria hasn't had significant rainfall since 2012. With the ground dry and reservoirs at minimum levels, south Gran Canarian farmers are warning about a lost year unless they get rain in the next six to eight weeks. 

The main cause is a high-pressure system that's been sitting over North Africa all winter and keeps swatting away any bad weather that heads towards the islands. There is no sign of this changing, at least for the next couple of weeks.

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  • The Parafarmacia In Gran Canaria Is Not A Chemist!
    The Parafarmacia In Gran Canaria Is Not A Chemist!

    If there is one thing we hate it is visitors being tricked in Gran Canaria. In the past we've warned about overcharging at Gran Canaria chemists, and rip off electronics shops in resorts. 

    In this Tip Of The Day we return to the island's chemists or rather, to the island's fake chemists.

    A chemist in Gran Canaria is called a Farmacia and always has a green cross sign. Farmacias are the only place tobuy medicine in Spain, even basics like paracetamol.

    However, there is another kind of shop in Gran Canaria that looks and sounds like a chemist but doesn't sell medicine. This is the Parafarmacia and it also uses a green cross sign.

    A parafarmacia is a herbal medicine shop that is not allowed to sell any normal medicine such as paracetamol, ibuprofen or antibiotics. 

    Instead, parafarmacias sell herbal alternatives to medicine but don't have to prove that they work and they can charge whatever they want.

    We recently heard from a visitor to Gran Canaria who went into a parafarmacia and was charged 40 euros for a herbal alternative to Ibuprofen. It was only when they read the label that they realised what had happened. 

    To locate a genuine farmacia, see this website and search within your municipio (Puerto Rico is in Mogán, Playa del Inglés is in San Bartolomé de Tirajana). At weekends and on fiesta days many farmacias close but there is always one open, known as the farmacia de guardia, in each municipio.

    Search for the nearest one to you with this tool

    Lex Says: To keep costs down, see this article for the way to ask for generic medicine rather than expensive branded alternatives. 

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