Rain forecast for entire carnival period
It’s Carnival time again – and for veterans, this generally means ice cold blasts of wind, squalls of rain and debatable enjoyment while children are dressed in plastic bin-bags.
Of course, not all children are kitted out for carnival in clothes that ensure they end up with coughs and colds (if not raging temperatures), but it tends to happen – and is thus every parent’s nightmare.
But for ‘aficionados’ of this religious holiday, this year promises to be like so many others before it: dogged by bad weather.
Rain (and cold) is forecast until Tuesday from north to south of the country, thanks to a depression passing over the mainland. That doesn’t mean the archipelagos escape the bad weather: they are due to get rain, too.
According to IPMA (meteorological institute), starting tomorrow “a depression with expression in altitude will be centred west of Portugal”, (negatively) affecting the weather between February 27 and March 4 “in other words, the period of carnival”, says SIC Notícias.
For Thursday, periods of rain, or possibly just showers, are forecast – starting on the coast and then extending through the day to areas of the interior.
“Between Friday to Sunday, the likelihood of rain is more probable in the central and southern regions of the country”, says SIC, stressing that there is still “some uncertainty” attached to these forecasts: the rain is dependant on the position of the depression, so, potentially, there “is some hope for carnival revellers”.
Monday and Tuesday should also see the rain/ showers “more dispersed and less frequent”, albeit very much in the south.
As to overall temperatures, minimums will oscillate between 7º-10ºC on the coast, between 9º and 7º, in the interior – and maximums between 12ºC and 19ºC.
Looking further ahead, 10-day forecasts are predicting rain, in one form or other, up until March 9.
