Bad weather eases but yellow still dominates Portugal

Have led to the postponement, from Sunday to Tuesday, the football game between Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal seems to have sufficed. The bad weather keeps up, in particular for almost the entire Atlantic coast of Europe. After all, in Portugal, will soften a bit and, it appears, allow the Lisbon Derby is finally held after last Sunday's strong wind have caused the destruction of part of the coverage of the stadium of light.

According to estimates broadcast by the Portuguese Institute of the sea and atmosphere, the Orange and Red warnings in recent days, Portugal will be this Tuesday, with predominance of yellow, which means "situation of risk for certain activities dependent on meteorological situation", which means, at a minimum, the monitoring of weather developments throughout the day. This warning from the coastal region of Setúbal to Minho and extends inland from Santarém, occupying the entire width of continental Portugal since the Beira Baixa to Trás-os-Montes. For the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores, this time the Green fills the map of warnings for all islands.

More concretely, for the whole continent and to the Azores, the predictions point to overcast skies and, with the exception of Algarve, occurrence of rain. In Madeira, the Sun often will peek through periods of cloudy skies.

The only source of concern for the Portuguese Civil Protection seem to be even the Tagus River basin region, where the village of Reguengo do Alviela â€" as is customary when these weather conditions â€" became isolated. Several roads were submerged by the rising waters of the River caused by too much rain and the consequent discharges of various Portuguese and Spanish dams, which are reaching maximum capacity levels.

In the United Kingdom, however, the flow of the River Thames also climbed and climbed the margins upstream of London, flooding a large portion of the province in the Southeast. Further West, Somerset also was a victim of apparent angry winds and seas of the Atlantic.

In the North of the Iberian Peninsula, Galicia is the region most affected by the storm Spanish or hadn't been the most exposed to the Atlantic in the neighboring country. Strong winds make up the main alert the authorities to the region on Tuesday. More to the Center, in the region of Castilla-Leon, hundreds of children have been forced to miss school on Monday because of the snow. Twenty provinces were, however, placed on alert because of snowfalls, which are planned to occur above the 600 metres of altitude. In Madrid, forecasts point to a wind-chill factor of around 10 degrees below zero and the warnings point even for snowfall in the Spanish capital. The 112 emergency Center advised even Spaniards not to leave home without their mobile phones properly loaded.

On the other side of the Atlantic, finally, Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, hit, Monday, the local record for hottest day of the year, with the thermometers to hit 41.4 degrees with humidity of 39 per cent to help the locals to support the day with more heat for more than three years.

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