Enjoy Portugal’s wonderful weather while it lasts: rain returns next week
Temperatures in mid-high 20ºs today At last, a Bank Holiday long weekend with stunning temperatures has arrived. Advice: enjoy every minute of it. Tomorrow, the weather takes another turn for
Algarve dams reach record 88% capacity
This year’s rainfall “was an exception,” environment agency warns The Algarve’s water reserves have hit a record high, with regional dams now 88% full, according to Portugal’s Environment Agency (APA).
Goodbye sunshine, hello rain: Weather takes gloomy turn
Rain and cooler weather to return by week’s end Rain is on its way back to mainland Portugal starting Thursday, along with a noticeable drop in temperatures, according to the
Further yellow warnings as Storm Nuria descends on Portugal
Nuria to bring heavy rain, thunderstorms on Friday Following the wettest March many (younger) people can remember, April is not promising much of a let up: all of mainland Portugal
Bad weather takes toll on Algarve agriculture – but there’s a silver lining
Citrus production fell 30% due to Algarve’s bad weather The bad weather that hit the Algarve in recent weeks has caused an estimated drop of around 30% in citrus fruit
New record in wind generation – thanks to storm Martinho!
National grid registers “historic maximums” of wind energy on Wednesday Thanks to storm Martinho blowing its path across the country this week, the national power grid has reported ‘new historic
Gust of 169 km/hour recorded on headland during storm Martinho
Martinho may have passed, but clean-up operation persists With the wild winds of storm Martinho now long gone from Portugal’s mainland, data is still coming in on the force that
Almost 50 nighttime forest fires in Alto Minho thwarted by Depression Martinho
“This is terrorism, pure and simple”, says fire chief A total of 48 forest fires broke out last night in various municipalities of the Alto Minho (Viana do Castelo district),
Depression Martinho cuts violent swathe across Portugal
Thousands of incidents – some injuries The arrival last night of Depression Martinho saw thousands of incidents called in to emergency services through the small hours – most of them
Heavy rain isn’t delighting all Portugal’s farmers
Farmers in Alentejo are worried about losing crops Farmers who months ago were bemoaning the lack of rain, are now lamenting its excess. The recent heavy rains – rains that