Back in Spain
I left Manchester Airport at 1230 local time yesterday in bright sunshine to arrive just less than 3 hours later to the very wet runway at Alicante airport in the pouring rain. I rang the parking company to let them know I had arrived and by the time I worked out which level was ground level at the airport (Level2) and exited the terminal they had parked my truck immediately in front of the exit. It was difficult to get to it because the parking area was submerged in 3 inches of water and it was still raining! However within minutes I was heading south on the A7 motorway with 200 km to drive south to my location in Almeria Province, arriving a couple of hours later still in daylight. The house and surrounds were very wet.
At 5:20 a.m. this morning (4:20 UK Time and 3:20 Universal Time) I went out of the front door to a part cloudy sky. The front of the house faces almost directly due south and the sky was very dark with no Moon in the sky and a brilliant Jupiter at magnitude -2.29 dominated the otherwise brilliant stars in the sky.
Jupiter was at an atitude of 25 degrees and the constellation of Scorpius was well above the horizon with Antares its usual brilliant red. However by 06:20 local time the clouds had returned. Back in the UK at Norwich at the Univeral Time of 03:20 when I observed Jupiter its altitude was only around 12 degrees.