Visitors to our Bodega always ask us about the local climate and the effect that our proximity to the Ocean has on the weather. I always explain to them that on this extreme western edge we often experience weather systems that clip only this part of Galicia, missing the rest of the country completely. Indeed, many of these systems, carried across the Atlantic by the jet stream, actually end up over the UK, meaning that our climate is in some ways similar to my home country. Of course being further south it is obviously a little warmer here, but in terms of precipitation I really must sit down one day and calculate the actual difference. It’s probably not that big.

I regret to report that the rain is still falling as I write, and as I desperately study the weather maps in search of some respite, I have noticed that the current depression is quite literally only dumping rain on this small corner of the continent – nowhere else in Europe appears to have been touched. It seems like the weather Gods are conspiring against us, or maybe I’m just feeling badly done by…..

Visitors to our Bodega always ask us about the local climate and the effect that our proximity to the Ocean has on the weather. I always explain to them that on this extreme western edge we often experience weather systems that clip only this part of Galicia, missing the rest of the country completely. Indeed, many of these systems, carried across the Atlantic by the jet stream, actually end up over the UK, meaning that our climate is in some ways similar to my home country. Of course being further south it is obviously a little warmer here, but in terms of precipitation I really must sit down one day and calculate the actual difference. It’s probably not that big.

I regret to report that the rain is still falling as I write, and as I desperately study the weather maps in search of some respite, I have noticed that the current depression is quite literally only dumping rain on this small corner of the continent – nowhere else in Europe appears to have been touched. It seems like the weather Gods are conspiring against us, or maybe I’m just feeling badly done by…..