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The director of the Meteorological Observatory of Funchal admitted today that the warning issued to Madeira should have been red and not yellow, but stressed that they are forecasts, so they are fallible.
Víctor Prior spoke with Lusa about the storm that fell today in the Ponta Delgada and Boaventura area, causing flooding and flooding, which caused the transfer of 27 people from their homes as a precaution.
The IPMA delegate in Madeira thus corrects the version transmitted moments before to SIC Notícias, when he recognized that the current meteorological warning – yellow – should have been raised to the immediately following level: Orange.
The official defended that the warnings are issued “in terms of forecast and observation” and that something else “is after what happened.”
Given the amount of precipitation recorded in some places, Victor Prior acknowledged that it should have been red, he justified.
But this “after what really happened and was recorded, because the notices are to warn and not to say what has already happened,” he stressed.
In Porto Moniz, 160 liters per square meter fell
Orlando Drumond, December 25, 2020 – 7:26 PM
The director of the Funchal Meteorological Observatory also told Lusa that the weather conditions in Madeira improved “a lot”, as the amount of precipitation decreased “a lot” from 9:30 pm, significantly.
“The amount of precipitation was already much less in the last hour, so the situation, at first, has a tendency to improve, now it has improved a lot,” he said, adding that zero millimeters was precipitation almost everywhere.
“In Bica da Cana it was 0.1 mm; in Pico do Arieiro 0.5, in São Vicente 0.7 [contra 39 às 18:00] and Porto Moniz 10.5 mm [contra 161]”He explained.
Heavy rains in the north of the island of Madeira today caused flooding in the municipalities of São Vicente and Santana, especially in the parishes of Boa Ventura, Ponta Delgada and Arco de São Jorge.
In these areas there were overflows of streams, mud and stone floods, some landslides and falling trees and road cuts, as DIÁRIO has advanced throughout this informative day.
Weather forecasts point to an improvement in the weather starting tonight.
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