The Funchal City Council is currently carrying out cleaning, repair, maintenance, and prevention work throughout the municipality in response to last weekend’s storm. The current list of repairs/cleaning is as follows: -
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Victor Prior, the Regional Delegate of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA), has issued a statement, saying that bad weather will affect the island again from Wednesday, although he was quick to point out that the weather conditions will not be as severe as last weekend.
A few images of the destruction caused by last weekends storm.
The clean-up operation in Estrada Monumental has begun, as people start cleaning up yesterday's and this mornings storm damage to commercial establishments, carparks, houses and apartment blocks.
Power outages are still affecting the whole of the island. Machico and Santa Cruz have been without electricity since early morning, and several areas of Funchal are also without power.
Although reports contradict themselves, whether the person lost on Levada do Serra do Faial in Camacha was in fact a man or a boy, he was found last night suffering from hypothermia by the rescue teams of the Sapadores de Santa Cruz Fire Brigade and the Forest Police.
Madeira's weather situation has been downgraded from a red alert to orange, and is expected to remain in place until mid-afternoon today.
A power surge at the 60 KV transport line between Calheta and Funchal causing damage to the Vitória Thermal Power Station system last night, left approximately 230,000 energy users sitting in the dark.
According to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA), Madeira and Porto Santo have been placed under a yellow warning until 9.00 am Sunday due to rain (sometimes heavy), thunder and strong winds, which have already reached gusts of up to 108 km/per hour.
The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) deputy Ricardo Lume has presented a draft resolution to be discussed and voted on this week at the Plenary of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, which advocates the undertaking of a technical-scientific study to identify the factors and situations that amplified the destructive force of the storm which battered the north of the island on the 24th and 25th of December.
Marking the eleventh year anniversary of the 2010 floods, the Regional Government issued a statement on their social network pages, saying: "Today, 11 years after February 20, 2010, we have plenty of reasons to be proud.
Depression Karim, ahs not only delivered a lot of rain this weekend, it is also expected to snow this evening/early tomorrow morning on the islands mountain peaks.
As forecast, it started snowing again last night. In order to maintain safety at all times, the Institute of Forestry and Nature Conservation (IFCN) has closed several roads, and these are: the forest road between Eira do Serrado and Pico do Areeiro and the road between Pico das Pedras and Achada Teixeira.