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In this way that we see in the Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia, this morning the curtains of rain that came to Mijas from the Alborán Sea could be seen.
If a curtain of precipitation reaches the surface, it receives the name of Praecipitatio (this is an additional feature of the clouds, since they start from them).
When this precipitation evaporates and disappears before reaching the ground, it is called virga.
In this case, the rain curtains have been located in the Alboran Sea, historically called the Iberian Sea (Mare Ibericum), in the westernmost part of the Mediterranean.
The surface currents of the Alboran Sea flow eastward, bringing Atlantic water to the Mediterranean. And undercurrents flow westward, carrying the warmer, saltier Mediterranean waters toward the Atlantic. In this area, the winds dominate from east (known as “Levante”) to west.
