Faro downtown and airport flooded due to heavy rain
Several streets are completely flooded The heavy rain that fell between last night and this morning has flooded parts of downtown Faro as well as its international airport. Several streets
Portugal’s heatdome to give way to rain, everywhere “but maybe not Algarve/ Alentejo”
Cooler temperatures from Friday, predict meteorologists Temperatures will drop from Friday to Sunday by around 10 to 12ºC in some parts of mainland Portugal, and rain is also expected, IPMA
Autumn heat/ drought “affecting avocados”
Environmentalists who have bemoaned the government’s insistence to keep giving the green-light to water intensive monocultures, like avocados, may draw some solace from the fact that the current high temperatures
Temperatures will start to drop from Monday
Despite everything we’ve been experiencing, “this is not a real heat wave” The last couple of weeks’ baking temperatures are about to start falling. Climatologist Mário Marques has been explaining
Summer heat expected this weekend in Portugal
“Tropical nights” also expected in the Algarve Maximum temperatures in mainland Portugal will be above 30ºC from Friday and could reach 37ºC, around 5 to 8º C above the average
Vineyards, olive groves decimated by weekend rain and hail
The mayor of Valpaços in Portugal’s north said today that “a hail storm” over the weekend “wiped out a year’s work” in vineyards and olive groves and that “farmers needed
Rain is on the way!
IPMA meteorologists predict probability of 40% to 50% of “above normal” precipitation levels this autumn Rain is one the way (or is it, see below): IPMA, the country’s meteorological institute
IPMA meteorologists on strike
Strike has “totally paralysed aeronautical observation” On the face of it, a strike by weather forecasters doesn’t sound that dramatic – particularly in the high summer where every day brings
Portugal’s July temperatures “close to normal”; 97% of country in drought – IPMA
July was the hottest month globally, but temperatures in Portugal were close to normal. The ‘bad news’ however is that the amount of land affected by drought increased to 97%.
Algarve under ‘yellow alert’ due to hot weather
The Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) has issued a yellow alert warning for the Algarve and the Madeira archipelago due to “persistent high values of maximum temperature” starting