Playa de Calahonda, Costa del Sol
Costa del Sol

The Weather on The Costa del Sol

The weather on the Costa del Sol is usually fabulous. I love it in Andalucia! However, it can turn surprisingly cold around Christmas time!

Playa de Calahonda, Costa del Sol
Costa del Sol

The Weather on The Costa del Sol

The weather on The Costa del Sol is quite legendary in the UK. In Scandinavia too, which is the biggest reason why people from those countries flock here in such vast numbers. (One of the others being the relatively low cost of living).

The Costa del Sol faces Morocco on the Maghreb in north Africa across only 14 kilometres of Mediterranean Sea, which is less than nine miles!

Admittedly, I had never spent a Christmas here before 2017, but this was my second January, and I have been coming here off-season for decades. In fact, many people do come here for the festive season to avoid the weather and expense at home.

Well, it has been cold this season. At the time of writing, 10:30 am in February 2018, the weather in Fuengirola is 2c (Real Feel -1c).

-1c!

People, even residents, are talking about how bitter the weather is around here. Fuengirola is in Andalucía – holiday resort! So, I should imagine that there are quite a few holiday-makers who wished they had stayed at home!

There is no real wind to speak of, nine mph, and it is not raining… it is just freakishly cold. If I didn’t think I knew better, I would say that it is about to snow.

That would be something, wouldn’t it!? Snow on the Costa del Sol – The Sun Coast?

“It has happened before”, one of my long-term resident Brit friends tells me, “but the last time was twenty years ago”.

Well, if I were a betting man, and if there were any betting offices around here, I would put a couple of pounds on the weather on Andalucía turning to snow over the next couple of days.

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Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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