There is no depression Nils

A very rainy day in the North and Center – as you can already see. But the IPMA official rejects the designation that was spreading.

The warning had already been given: this Tuesday is the first of two consecutive days with heavy and persistent rain.

The origin is a air mass with tropical characteristics, with lots of water. Throughout this morning and this morning, damage has already been seen in the Norte and no Center.

For today, Tuesday, they have already been issued notices level precipitation orange to Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto, Vila Real, Aveiro, Viseu and Coimbra.

For those who are thinking that these are the symptoms of such a “depression Nils”… is false.

It may have been another invention of social networks, which most people take for granted.

“A correction needs to be made. We’re starting to name depressions that aren’t named, it doesn’t make sense. There is no depression Nils, nothing is named“, assured Nuno Lopes, head of meteorological forecasting and surveillance at IPMA.

There is a lot of rain, yes. And, therefore, orange warning: “The orange warning is there because of the persistence of precipitation. We are going to have a lot of precipitation, in certain periods it will be heavy and, over the day, it could cause several problems at the hydrological level”, described Nuno in .

This new complicated cycle is a new one, associated with the passage of frontal systems “that are not directly linked to depression”.

Not next weekend should rain less. The precipitation will not disappear, but it will be smaller and more paused.