Toni Bolufer, the particular forecaster Xàbia

The other day we came up with the idea of ​​doing a little interview with our friend Toni Bolufer whom many will know as "MeteoXàbia". Whenever weather changes are coming or we want to know the amount of rain that has fallen we consult your page or ask him directly, surely more than once you have also looked at his facebook page for the weather forecast.

Toni Bolufer is not a meteorologist by profession, but from a very young age this field caught his attention. As he tells us "I always saw on TV liters that had occurred in many places of the province or the region but never left Jávea. And I wanted to know how it was raining in my town"He started with a rain gauge bought at a hardware store with which he measured the water that fell when it rained and with the thermometer every day he took measurements of maximum and minimum temperatures.

A day came that he remained small Bolufer those tools and bought an affordable weather station to get you started. With this new device temperature data, humidity, wind and rain and passed directly to the computer and hung in a kind of URL that facilitated the ISP. Already in the year 2004, Toni meteoxabia.com bought the domain, and gradually people were already knowing what he was doing. It was in the year 2010 when the Facebook profile was created with the name meteoxabia which currently has 6.724 followers throughout the country and some abroad among the Germans, Dutch and French abound. At first page of this network it was fed only with data but had the highest growth when its creator was started up photos of Javea to illustrate his followers how was the day.

Toni assures that these photographs were also sent to the now defunct Channel 9, a medium in which his images were constantly shown, and to other national media such as Antena 3, in which it cost him more for his photos to be published. Toni assures that everything he learned has been based on reading a lot, studying maps, attending countless conferences by professional meteorologists and many hours of dedication. Until recently Bolufer had only two meteorological stations to provide data, one at his home in the port of Jávea and another in the Frechinal area. For a couple of years, thanks to friends with weather stations that they did not use or others who have lent him the terrain, he has also provided data from La granadella, Les Barranqueres, the area of ​​Tarraula, Partida Roig and els Castellans.

Toni also belongs to AVAMET (Valencian Association of Meteorology Fans) and they are dedicated, among other things, to putting weather stations at strategic points in each region. It states that where there is more is the Marina Alta since it is the place where it rains in theory but there are all over the Community. In Jávea, since Toni has data, the date that more liters per square meter were collected was in August of last year 2013, with an average of more than 200 liters, says that "2007 in the flood of all the damage done by the amount of rainfall was recorded inside and filled the river, if it were only so it rained here, it would not have done all the evil he did".

We were fired from Toni without being able to get a long-term forecast to know if this winter will be as dry as the previous one because as he says "meteorology is very mathematical although it is not an exact science and is based on many models that can be true as well, it is something totally unpredictable in the long term"From here we thank Toni Bolufer of MeteoXàbia for keeping us informed daily about the weather in our municipality and alerting us when changes come.