Eighteen districts of mainland Portugal under yellow warning due to the cold. Minimums go down to -6 degrees – Observer
The 18 districts of mainland Portugal will be under yellow warning due to the forecast of cold weather, according to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA).
According to the information available on its website, the IPMA refers that today there are three districts — Bragança, Guarda and Vila Real — that are under yellow warning due to the persistence of low minimum temperature values, to which they join, from the 03:00 on Monday the remaining Portuguese districts.
The yellow warning is issued whenever there is a risk situation for certain activities dependent on the weather situation.
Due to the persistence of low minimum temperature values for the next few days, the IPMA places, as of Monday morning, the 18 districts of the Mainland under yellow warning. The IPMA yellow warning will be in effect until 07:00 on Wednesday.
According to the organization, temperatures will drop in Portugal from Monday, with minimums between 5º and -6º, keeping the cold weather until the end of the week. In a statement, the IPMA states that the cold weather is caused by an anticyclone located in northern Europe, which extends, “in a crest to the Atlantic” and “will transport a mass of cold continental air to the Iberian Peninsula”.
This “sharp drop in temperature values until Monday, the 23rd”, should remain “unchanged until the end of the week” and there is no forecast of rain, according to the meteorological institute.
On Monday, according to the IPMA, the “minimum temperature should vary approximately between 0º and 5º C, being lower in the interior North and Center, where it will drop to values between 0 and -6º C”, preventing also the formation of frost. The maximum temperature will also drop, “predicting values between 10º and 15ºC in most of the territory and, in the interior North and Center, values between 5º and 10ºC”.