The districts of Faro and Beja will be under yellow warning on Thursday and Friday due to the forecast of showers, which are occasionally heavy and may be accompanied by thunderstorms and hail, IPMA reported this Wednesday.
The warning will be in effect between 06:00 and 12:00 on Thursday and between 06:00 and 15:00 on Friday.
The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) predicts for this Wednesday on the continent very cloudy skies, showers, more likely in the northern and central interior and which will be snow above 1,400/1,600 meters, strong wind in the lands highs and drops in temperature.
Minimum temperatures will range between 03 degrees Celsius (in Guarda and Bragança) and 14 (in Faro) and maximum temperatures between 12 (in Guarda) and 22 (in Faro and Setúbal).
The IPMA also placed the Central group of the Azores (Faial, Pico, Terceira, Graciosa and S. Jorge) under yellow warning due to rain that was sometimes heavy and accompanied by thunder until 3pm today.
The yellow warning, the least serious on a scale of three, is issued whenever there is a risk situation for certain activities depending on the weather situation.
The forecast for this Wednesday in the western group of the Azores (Flores and Corvo) will be periods of very cloudy skies with good clear skies, increasing in cloudiness towards the end of the day, and a weak to calm south-west wind, gradually turning towards the north-east.
In the central group, generally very cloudy skies are expected, periods of rain and sometimes heavy showers, conditions favorable to the occurrence of thunderstorms and weak to calm southerly winds, turning eastwards.
For the eastern group (S. Miguel and Santa Maria) the forecast indicates periods of very cloudy skies with open skies and a fair to moderate southeast wind, turning to the northeast.
In Santa Cruz das Flores and Angra do Heroísmo temperatures will vary between 16 and 21 degrees and in Horta and Ponta Delgada between 17 and 21 degrees.
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