Weather

The weather in El Cuartón can be elemental, if not fearsome. The hills around El Cuartón receive more rain than the surrounding arid areas, meaning it stays green year round at the cost of a little less sun than up the Costa.

I don't know of anyone yet in the community that has set up one of the networked weather stations so until that happens, we have to make due with the weather reports from Tarifa or Gibraltar.

Tarifa

Wind guru for Tarifa - Wind Guru seems to be the main and most accurate site for Tarifa weather forecasts.

A Historical Perspective

From Nicholas Luard published “Andalucia: A Portrait of Southern Spain”:

“The winds that swept the valley were known locally as the levante and the poniente. Blowing from the east the levante was the equivalent of the mistral and the other hot winds that scourge the Mediterranean. Harsh and dry, it could gust monotonously for weeks without a break, rattling windows, shaking leaves from the trees, raising dust spirals along the tracks.”

“The poniente from the west, named after the place where the sun 'puts itself to bed', was milder and less frequent although it too could be tormenting." ["Poniente" is commonly spelled and pronounced “poiniente” these days.]

“The fog, known as the taro, rose to a height of only a few hundred feet and stopped abruptly on either shore [occurs during intervals between the two winds].”

“...the rains usually fell at two separate periods – first in the early autumn and then in the winter months following Christmas.”