What changes for visitors and residents?
The Dirección General de Emergencias, the Canary Islands government's emergency service, cut the rain warning to prealerta from 11:30 on Sunday 8 November. It covers El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria.
The warning has not been lifted. The wind warning stayed in force, and Montserrat Román, head of the regional government's civil protection and emergencies service, stressed that the weather event was not over.
For a beach day, the sea matters more than the rain: Emergencias still expected north-westerly swell of 3 to 4 metres on the north and west coasts. A force 7 south-westerly wind (50 to 61 kilometres per hour) was forecast around Tenerife's capital region and south coast.
The agency advises keeping away from piers, breakwaters and surf zones, especially at high tide. According to the forecast of 6 November, the tidal coefficients were 82 on Monday and 77 on Tuesday.
Anyone planning an outing should first check the official channels of Emergencias and AEMET, the national weather service. The latest available information dates from Sunday 8 November, and whether the situation changed on Monday is not documented.
How hard did Bruna hit the islands?
According to AEMET, Bruna reached the Canaries “desestructurado”, meaning less organised and weaker than first expected. The rain forecast fell accordingly: on 6 November the government had expected up to 100 litres per square metre in 12 hours for La Palma.
On Sunday Emergencias still named 60 litres in 12 hours for La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro and Tenerife. For Gran Canaria the figure was 40 litres, and for Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Graciosa locally 20 litres per hour.
Between midnight and Sunday midday the government counted 16 incidents, mostly fallen trees and objects blown about by the wind. Román described them as isolated cases of no particular severity.
Tenerife reported the most, including La Laguna, Icod, Los Realejos, Tegueste, Santa Cruz and San Miguel de Abona. La Palma had five, and in one of them a person was injured after the wind hit a chair and flung it away; the person was taken to a health centre.
On La Gomera the authorities closed the CV-14 road near El Rejo as a precaution. On Gran Canaria, trees fell onto a medium-voltage power line in Moya.
Anyone flying in the coming days should check with their airline, as Aena, the airport operator, has issued no official statement for Monday. La Palma airport had seven diversions on Sunday, Aena sources said: three flights from Munich, Zurich and Madrid went to Tenerife South, one from Hamburg to Gran Canaria.
The strongest gusts measured reached 112 km/h at Izaña, 106 at Roque de los Muchachos and 103 at Alto Igualero on La Gomera. In Sabinosa on El Hierro the figure was 88 km/h.
What stays closed in Tenerife?
The Cabildo de Tenerife, the island government, put its island emergency plan PEIN on alert level from 00:00 on 8 November. Rosa Dávila, who heads the Cabildo, asked people to avoid unnecessary journeys.
Closed were trails and paths in nature reserves, campsites, recreation areas and the Masca and Infierno ravines. Hunting was suspended, and permits for canyoning, climbing, filming and sports events became invalid.
On Sunday evening Tenerife lowered the PEIN to prealerta. The closures of cultural and sports facilities ended.
The ban on pistas, caminos and senderos (tracks, paths and trails) in protected areas stays until the Consejería Insular, the island government department, lifts it. The reason is the risk of rockfall and falling trees, and none of the sources gave an end date.
The available information does not say whether Masca and Infierno have reopened. Anyone planning a hike is best off asking the Cabildo.
How was it in the cities and on Gran Canaria?
Santa Cruz de Tenerife moved to prealerta from 12:00 on Sunday and reopened municipal facilities. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria followed at 13:00 for rain and at 13:20 for coastal phenomena.
The Cabildo of Gran Canaria withdrew the suspension of public and private events and the hunting ban. AEMET lowered the warning for the island from orange to yellow.
The match between UD Las Palmas and Eldense, scheduled for 17:30 on Sunday, was postponed. It could be played on Monday, but the information gives no confirmed date.
Who decides the warning levels?
AEMET issues the weather warnings, and the Dirección General de Emergencias sets the regional levels: prealerta, alerta and alerta máxima. The warnings stay until Emergencias issues a new notice.
The Cabildos run their own island plans. After Storm Therese, Tenerife lowered its plan to level 1 at 02:30 on 25 March 2026.
The pattern is not new: during Storm Nuria on 3 April 2025 the government lowered the wind warning to prealerta but kept the coastal one. Emergency crews then handled around 290 incidents.
What happens with Bruna in the coming days?
According to AEMET, Bruna should weaken from Wednesday 11 November. The weather service did not rule out heavy showers on the peninsula and in the Canaries.
Emergencias is waiting for new AEMET forecasts before it adjusts the levels again. On Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Graciosa, rain could last until midnight into 9 November.
Total rainfall, damage and whether the wind warning for Gran Canaria was lifted are not recorded in the available information. The authorities have also not yet given an end date for the closure of Tenerife's trails.