The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) extended until Thursday the yellow alert in eight districts of mainland Portugal due to the permanence of the cold.
On Sunday, the IPMA had placed all the districts of the continent on yellow alert due to low temperatures, 10 of which until 6 in the morning on Tuesday and the remaining eight until 6 in the morning on Wednesday.
However, this morning, in a statement, the IPMA indicated that it had extended the yellow notice until 11 a.m. this Thursday in the districts of Vila Real, Bragança, Guarda and Castelo Branco. In the districts of Viseu, Portalegre, Évora and Beja, the yellow notice was extended until 6 in the morning on Thursday. In Leiria, this notice will remain until 6 in the morning on Wednesday.
The IPMA maintained the yellow notice in the districts of Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto, Aveiro and Coimbra until 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday and in Lisbon, Santarém, Setúbal and Faro until 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
In the statement, the institute justifies this decision with the “persistence of low values ​​of the minimum temperature“.
The yellow warning, the least serious, is issued whenever there is a risk situation for certain activities depending on the weather situation.
Source: Observadora
