The intensification of the storm that hit the national territory last night, putting the district of Lisbon under levels of precipitation that have not been recorded in the last eight years, it became predictable three hours before the maximum precipitation, around 5 p.m. But the red alert from the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) was only issued at the end of the rain peak, at 11:00 p.m.
This is what climatologist Mário Marques, executive director of Planoclima, a private company that provides weather forecasting services to companies, almost all of them in the field of tourism, tells the Observer:
I warned my clients three hours in advance that, after dinner time, the situation would worsen”, he says.
The precipitation peak actually came around 8:00 p.m. and went on for another three hours.
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Source: Observadora
