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A frontal depression will condition the weather in the Madeira archipelago in the next few hours, but it will pass quickly, and the most critical period is expected to occur between 07:00 and 08:00 on Wednesday.
According to the director of the Observatory of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) in Madeira, Víctor Prior, the situation, despite the fact that an orange warning for precipitation is in force, has no similarities with the one that occurred on Saturday and Sunday, whose depression it remained stationary for 24 hours over the Madeira archipelago.
“This depression will be associated with periods of rain or downpours accompanied by thunderstorms from late today and early morning, and may continue until Wednesday afternoon. The most critical period will be between 06:00 and 09:00, particularly between 07:00 and 08:00. This is the information that we have the most up-to-date, “said Víctor Prior to the Lusa agency.
The director of the IPMA Observatory in Madeira said that precipitation levels fall “within the current orange warning”, but substantially lower than those that occurred last weekend.
“The amounts of precipitation are about 60% of what was forecast and released this morning,” he noted.
“The situation, in general, has improved slightly, however, we are going to put surveillance in the next few hours,” he added, highlighting that “this system passes very quickly and tomorrow [quarta-feira] at 12:00 he will have already passed to Madeira.
“The pace is fast, there will be no accumulated values comparable to those of last Saturday and Sunday,” he stressed.
Victor Prior also mentioned that the situation has been monitored for ten days and “from the outset it is not an identical situation, it is not a situation that deserves too much concern.”
The wind will be marked on the south coast with gusts of 70 kilometers per hour and in mountainous areas of 90 kilometers per hour.
Last weekend, the Madeira archipelago was hit by heavy rains that reached 290 millimeters per square meter, persistent wind and storm, causing two blackouts, several floods, rock falls, and damage to some roads.
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