Maria da Conceição Gomes, 70, understands the concern of the Funchal City Council when they evacuated all 41 residents from the block of flats where she lived, because of bad weather, on Wednesday, but today says that it was not necessary for them to be so pressurised into leaving.
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Madeira has recorded a new national historical maximum value of precipitation, during the passage of Storm Oscar through the region, announced the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA).
Storm Oscar brought unprecedented levels of rain, with Areeiro recording levels of 604 millimetres per m2.
As of 16:30 today, 35 incidents had been recorded in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos due to the high rainfall caused by Storm Oscar. Three families also had to flee their homes.
The Civil Protection has issued a statement confirming that in the last 24 hours, a total of 163 occurrences, resulting from Storm 'Oscar' mobilised 168 teams and 436 operational staff.
Today's rain has exceeded red-level warning limits in three mountainous areas overlooking the city of Funchal, said the Regional Delegate of the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA), Victor Prior.
As expected, said Victor Prior, the Regional Delegate of the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea, the regions mountainous regions have been the most affected by Storm Oscar. So far the highest levels of rainfall have been recorded at Chão do Arieiro (1,500 meters of altitude), Pico Alto (1,000 m),…
The Regional Delegate of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) has confirmed that Storm Oscar is known as an 'Atmospheric River,' with the region being affected by this type of storm only 5 or 6 times in the last 60 years.
A predicted, storm Oscar has made itself known across the island today and will continue to do so tomorrow.
The Civil Protection Service of Madeira today issued recommendations to the population due to the arrival of Depression Oscar. The archipelago is on a red alert for 24 hours, from 15:00 hours on Monday.
The Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA) has placed the Madeiran archipelago under a ‘red’ weather warning from 3 pm tomorrow (5th June) afternoon due to Depression Oscar. This depression will greatly influence weather conditions from Monday afternoon until Tuesday. The weather is expected to lead to landslides, flash floods,…
According to Vitor Prior, director of the IPMA's Funchal Meteorological Observatory, rain is expected to fall for the next eight days.
It will not be during this term in government, nor is it even decided whether even the plan will move forward.
This year, rainfall values reached the lowest levels in the last 62 years, states IPMA delegate Victor Pior.
The pollen levels in the atmosphere in Madeira are predominantly from Cypress and Eucalyptus, confirms the latest pollen bulletin issued by the Portuguese Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (SPAIC).
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