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Bad weather. Heavy rains caused about 40 floods in the Alentejo
Civil Protection warns the population about bad weather
Maximum temperatures will drop, but will remain above 20 degrees throughout the country. The lows can go down a lot, but only in the interior, reaching 10º in some of the coldest cities.
At the same time that the mainland – and the entire Iberian Peninsula will wait for Odette – the Paulette depression is expected to cause a gradual worsening of the weather in the Azores, especially on the islands of Flores and Corvo, with an increase in maritime disturbances and intensity of wind and rain.
On Tuesday, the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) reported that Hurricane Paulette should hit the western group of the Azores this weekend as a post-tropical storm, having reached the coast of Bermuda.
Paulette depression should increase weather in Flores and Corvo
The IPMA had already issued this Thursday yellow weather warnings for the western and eastern islands. In a statement, the IPMA said that, for the western group of the Azores (islands of Flores and Corvo), the yellow warning on agitation of the sea with northwest swell will be in effect from 6 am local (7 am in Lisbon) from Friday until 6 am on Saturday.
For those two islands, a yellow warning was also issued due to forecasts of rain, sometimes heavy, between 9 p.m. Friday and 12 p.m. Saturday.
In the eastern group of the archipelago (São Miguel and Santa María), the yellow weather alert will be in effect between 6 a.m. and 12 noon on Friday, since forecasts also point to sometimes heavy rains on those two islands.
Climate change is causing some extreme phenomena: in addition to the five cyclones active at the same time in the Atlantic this week, something that happened for the first time in history (the last was in 1971), Greece is preparing to receive in the next few hours a strong tropical storm. Once very rare in the Mediterranean, cyclones in this area have become increasingly frequent in recent years. The Greeks first met us in 1995, but in 2017 a storm caused flash floods that caused 25 deaths and hundreds of homeless people and in 2018 there was another similar situation, but without fatalities.
The hurricane over Greece
They are known as Mediterranean hurricanes, or Medicanes, and this one that now approaches the Greek islands will cause winds of 200 km / h and heavy rains of between 200 and 400 l / m2 in a few hours. Greek authorities have already asked people to live by the sea or rivers and streams to try to get around and avoid unnecessary travel.
There are 5 active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic. It’s the second time in history, it hasn’t happened since 1971 and two could turn out to be super hurricanes
