The IPMA has also placed more than 60 municipalities in the districts of Vila Real, Bragança, Guarda, Portalegre, Coimbra, Leiria, Santarém, Setúbal, Évora, Beja and Faro at high risk.
The fire hazard, determined by the IPMA, has five levels, ranging from reduced to maximum. Calculations are obtained from air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and amount of precipitation in the last 24 hours.
For today, the IPMA predicts a small decrease in the minimum temperature in the North and Centre regions and a small decrease in the maximum temperature, except in the Algarve, where it should rise.
The minimum temperatures will vary between 6 degrees Celsius (Vila Real and Bragança) and 16ºC (Faro) and the maximum between 18ºC (Viana do Castelo) and 30ºC (Faro).
Sadly this doesn't surprise me at all. I am in Quinta do Conde, Sesimbra, and the ground is really dry here with plants shrivelling in the heat. Surviving wildflowers are stunted. I have been here eight years and not seen an April as bad as this. We need rain, and a lot of it. I remember and old rhyme that went: "March wind and April showers, bring forth the May Day flowers." We used to be able to count on the seasons but with Climate Change those days are a thing of the past. I dread to think what it will be like this summer here.
By Steve Andrews from Other on 10 Apr 2023, 15:20