The districts of Lisbon, Setúbal and Leiria are since 06:00 this Wednesday under yellow warning due to heavy rain, then the orange and extending to Faro and Beja due to the passage of the depression Martinho, according to IPMA data.
In addition to rain, depression will bring wind and strong ripple until tomorrow, especially to the central and southern regions of mainland Portugal.
Thus, the districts of Lisbon, Setúbal and Leiria are under yellow warning until 21:00 today, then the orange until 06:00 on Thursday due to the forecast of times of rain, sometimes strong, which can occasionally be accompanied by thunderstorm.
Also because of heavy rain, the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) put under yellow warning the districts of Faro and Beja between 15:00 and 21:00, then orange until 06:00 on Thursday.
The IPMA also put under yellow warning due to rain the districts of Évora, Santarém and Portalegre from 18:00 today and 06:00 on Thursday and Viseu, Guarda, Castelo Branco, Aveiro, Coimbra between 00:00 and 06:00 Thursday.
Orange warnings were also issued due to the forecast of strong wind with gusts up to 90 kilometers per hour (km/h), being 110 km/h in the highlands, to the districts of Viseu, Porto, Guarda, Vila Real, Setúbal, Santarém, Viana do Castelo, Lisbon, Leiria, Castelo Branco, Aveiro, Coimbra and Braga.
The IPMA placed a yellow wind warning for all districts of the continent from this afternoon and until 15:00 on Thursday.
Under Yellow Warning because of the sea agitation are also the districts of Faro, Setúbal, Lisbon, Leiria and Beja between 15:00 today and 22:00 on Thursday.
In turn, the Madeira archipelago was also placed under orange warning, due to the forecast of strong wind (from 12:00 today) and maritime agitation, only in the case of Porto Santo (from 21:00).
The Madeira archipelago will also be under orange warning due to rain until 12:00 today and gust with gusts up to 95 km/h between 12:00 and 21:00 today, both later yellow.
According to the IPMA, by Friday the total accumulated precipitation should be between 70 and 100 millimeters in the Central and South regions, and may be locally superior on the center coast.
Snow can fall at the highest points of Serra da Estrela, lowering the quota to 1,200/1,400 meters on Friday.
The Martinho depression will also bring an increase in wind intensity, which will blow south/southeast with gusts that can reach values of 80 to 90 km/h, especially on the coast, and 110 to 120 km/h in the highlands.
It is also foreseen maritime agitation, waiting southwest waves 4 to 5 meters south of Cape Carvoeiro and 3 to 4 meters north of that cable.
On Tuesday, at a press conference, the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (Anepc) warned of the aggravation of the meteorological situation in the continent’s territory in the coming days, with sometimes strong precipitation, wind and maritime agitation.
According to Anepc’s national operational deputy, Alexandre Penha, the predictions of the Portuguese Institute of Sea and atmosphere () to “the next 48 hours” give a note of “a general state of time, characterized by increased precipitation” and “Wind”, at the end of Wednesday and early morning.
Anepc also informed, based on information from the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA), which, in the next 48 hours, in the Tagus Basin, “in urban basins there may be a rise of flows, possibility of flooding” and, in urban basins and western streams, based on the hours of hours obtained from meteorological predictions, “in urban basins (Cascais, Oeiras, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures, Loures Setúbal) can be reached flow with a period of return between the ages of five and 10 ”.
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