I have to say, I don’t like the wind. When we lived in England it didn’t particularly bother me much except when I wanted to go out on my bike. Here though it is different because of the position of our house. We pay for the open views and living on a hill by being exposed to the wind when it blows from the direction of Orihuela. From the south and the east we are sheltered by the houses next door and across the road but from the north and the west we are open.
We’ve had two lots of cane fencing destroyed by the wind, three of the steel posts that hold the fencing bent and one snapped off completely. We also had two large pots smashed when plants blew over and a dent in the car bonnet caused by a flying table that was also destroyed by a fierce gust earlier this year. We had the feet on the gazebo strengthened after they were loosened by the gales in January.
When we first moved here, the chairs, table and pots on the roof rattled whenever the wind blew keeping us awake at night. A bit of careful repositioning sorted that out. As for the kitchen door, well there is no cure for that. We have a gas boiler for the central heating and so have a ventilated door in the kitchen. When the wind blows towards the back, it howls through the vents. That makes even a light wind sound ten times worse.
As you can see from this seven day chart, the wind is expected to increase up to Sunday and then gradually calm down next week. According to AEMET (the state agency) the wind will gradually increase until Monday when they say it will reach 36km per hour from the north west and then drop from Tuesday onwards – a similar forecast to the one above.
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