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David Teixeira, deputy mayor of Montalegre, in the Vila Real district, told the Lusa news agency that The students of the Doutor Bento da Cruz School Group will stay home today as a precaution and because the forecasts point to a worsening of the weather during the day.
Since 6:00 am, local authorities and firefighters were on the ground cleaning the roads and spreading salt.
David Teixeira warned cautiously and said that the places where it snowed the most was in Pitões das Júnias and Tourém, where there is “some difficulty in circulation, except in all-terrain vehicles.”
The snowfall also caused the closure of national highways (EN) 2 and 321, in the north of the Viseu district.
A source from the District Relief Operations Command told Lusa that the EN 321 cuts between Castro Daire and Cinfães, in the Montemuro mountains area, and the EN2 between Castro Daire and Lamego, in Bigorne, which “are the most high “. .
“The snowplows have been working since six in the morning. There are sporadic situations of cars that cannot walk, but later, when the snowplows pass, they circulate normally ”, he explained.
Also according to the District Command it snowed in other provinces in the north of the district, such as Penedono, Moimenta da Beira, Tabuaço, Tarouca and Resende, but “there are no roads cut off.”
For the same reason, the access roads to the central massif of the Serra da Estrela were closed. A source from the Castelo Branco District Relief Operations Command informed Lusa that at 09:20 am only the Covilhã / Piornos section was passable.
Traffic was prohibited in the Piornos / Cruce de la Torre, Cruce de la Torre / Torre and Cruce de la Torre / Lagoa Comprida, Lagoa Comprida / Sabugueiro, Sabugueiro / Cruce de Gouveia / Penhas Douradas / Manteigas and Manteigas Covilhã, without predictions about the reopening.
The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere today foresees “downpours, with snow above 1,400 / 1,600 meters in the North and Center, gradually decreasing the quota to 600/800 meters”.
C / the day after tomorrow
