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
Mainland expects new depression “Martinho”, with high winds in centre and south
Martinho will bring heavy rain, wind and rough seas Today’s apparent lull in the torrential rain, wind and cold of March will be making way for more bad weather, warns
Algarve’s water restrictions reduced following record rainfall
Country hasn’t seen this much rain for 20 years With rain still falling to the end of this month, minister of environment and energy Maria da Graça Carvalho visited the