The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) maintained this Thursday on red alert, the most serious, the northern and central interior districts, due to the heat, but relieved the remaining districts as of tonight.
According to information released on Wednesday, no red alert expected (of persistence of very high values of the maximum temperature) as of Friday. The day that is celebrated in all the districts of the continent, with the exception of Faro, they were on red notice.
Faced with an improvement in the situation in the coastal districts, several of them spent Wednesday night, at 9:00 p.m., from red to orangethe second most serious, of persistence of very high values of the maximum temperature.
This is the case of the districts of Aveiro, Beja, Leiria, Lisbon, Porto, Setúbal and Viana do Castelo, which went from red to orange at 9:00 p.m., which remains until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Starting at 21:00 on Thursday all seven districts pass yellow notice.
Coimbra also changes this Wednesday from red to orange alert, which the IPMA maintains until 9:00 p.m. on Friday.
The districts of Bragança, Castelo Branco, Guarda, Portalegre, Santarém, Vila Real and Viseu remain on red alert until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, moving to orange alert at that time, until 9:00 p.m. on Friday.
The IPMA also puts the districts of Braga and Évora on red alert until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, when they change to a yellow warning, less serious than orange.
Faro remains with a yellow warning until 9:00 p.m. on Friday.
The IPMA forecasts until the end of Friday the “persistence of a very hot and very dry climate in continental Portugal”, which registers very high values of maximum and minimum air temperature since the 6th.
Source: Observadora
