More than 100 municipalities in the districts of Faro, Santarém, Leiria, Portalegre, Beja, Castelo Branco, Guarda, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Braga, Porto, Vila Real, Bragança and Faro pose the highest rural fire risk on Tuesday. to IPMA.
The Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) has also placed more than 40 municipalities in the districts of Faro, Beja, Lisbon, Leiria, Coimbra, Aveiro, Vila Real, Porto, Braga and Portalegre at very high risk.
Other municipalities in Viana do Castelo, Braga, Porto, Aveiro, Leiria, Lisbon, Santarém, Setúbal, Portalegre, Évora and Beja are at high fire risk.
Due to weather conditions, the fire hazard will continue until at least Saturday.
This risk, as defined by IPMA, has five levels, from reduced to maximum, and calculations are made based on air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and rainfall over the past 24 hours.
Since the beginning of the year, 6,349 fires have already affected 28,132 hectares of rural areas.
IPMA forecasts over the next few days an increase in the overall temperature of the maximum temperature with values close to 40 degrees in the south, inland north and in the center of the regions, possibly reaching 44 degrees in some places in Alentejo and Vale do Tejo. .
At night, minimum temperatures will also be high, “with values above 20 degrees (tropical nights) in most of the area and may not even fall below 25 degrees in some places in the Algarve, Alentejo and Beira.”
The rest of the continent will be under an orange warning (the second most severe) these days, including due to hot weather, according to information published on the institute’s website.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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