Nuria depression will affect mainland Portugal, leading the IPMA to issue yellow warning to 18 districts on Friday due to the forecast of heavy and thunder.
All continental Portugal districts will be on Friday under yellow warning due to the forecast of sometimes strong rainfall and accompanied by thunderstorms due to second .
Following the forecast of the aggravation of the time state, the IPMA issued yellow warning to 18 districts between 12:00 and 18:00 on Friday.
Until Saturday, they are sometimes strong and accompanied by thunderstorm, especially on Friday, explains the Portuguese Institute of Sea and the atmosphere, adding that the Nuria depression will be positioned late Thursday to the Iberian Peninsula, moving slowly to the north.
“This depression is associated with a cold front surface and several lines of instability that will condition the state of time in mainland Portugal,” the IPMA said in a statement.
Maritime agitation leaves several districts under warning
Until Saturday is also planned from the faint to moderate south quadrant, intensifying to moderate to strong on the coast and highlands, with gusts up to 70 kilometers per hour (km/h) from the end of Thursday, and snowfall at the highest points of Serra da Estrela.
The IPMA also put under yellow warning the districts of Setúbal, Lisbon, Leiria and Beja between 09:00 and 21:00 on Thursday and Faro between 03:00 and 21:00 due to the forecast of strong seafront, with southwest waves with 4 to 4.5 meters.
The yellow warning, the least severe of a three scale, is issued whenever there is a risk situation for certain activities dependent on the weather situation.
