… rain until next week
The latest weather forecasts this Tuesday afternoon say that generally weak showers are expected to continue, occasionally moderate in the case of the mountainous regions, until this Wednesday, and the rain will continue at least until next Monday.
Victor Prior, from thethe Portuguese Weather Institute, IPMA delegation in Madeira, told JM that, in general terms, a gradual improvement in the weather is expected. However, on the other hand, a drop in temperature is expected. While today the maximum temperature points to 24.ºC, the maximum temperatures for the next few days are around 20/22.ºC in Funchal.
With regard to precipitation, a yellow weather warning is in effect until the end of today, but with regard to wind, in mountainous regions, the warning is in effect between tomorrow and the 15th until noon.
The strongest gust on Tuesday was 133km/hour in Areeiro, recorded at 9:00 am, followed by another record of gusts hitting 125km/hour in Santa do Porto Moniz. At the airport, the wind reached 96km/h.
Airport begins to return to normal
Air traffic is moving towards normalization at Madeira International Airport this afternoon, with several arrivals and departures completed.
In fact, since 11:45 am, flights have been landing at the airport infrastructure. However, on the ANA – Madeira Airport website, under Arrivals, it can be seen that two TAP flights from Lisbon were cancelled (TP 1689, scheduled for 1:35 pm, and TP 1697, which would arrive at 5:10 pm). Return flights to the Madeiran capital were also cancelled.
The Norwegian Airlines flight that was scheduled from Oslo was cancelled, as well as the one from Paris, Orly, from Transavia France.
Porto Santo ferry cancelled
Porto Santo Line said in a statement today (Tuesday) that the trips scheduled for tomorrow are cancelled.
As the note reads, “the trips on 12/14/2022 (Funchal-Porto Santo at 8 am and Porto Santo – Funchal at 6 pm) will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions that jeopardize the safety of the ship and passengers. passengers”.
Update Tuesday 22:00
The yellow warning for maritime unrest for Madeira and Porto Santo, which was already in force until 6 pm on the 15th, has now been extended by IPMA until 6 am on the 16th of December.
The mountainous areas and the North and South coast of Madeira, as well as Porto Santo, are under yellow warning due to sea agitation,precipitation and strong wind.
COVID-19 in Madeira: updates can be found in an earlier post
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Our.BA flight from Heathrow this morning aborted first landing attempt due to high winds. Second attempt from eastern end of the runway into prevailing wind bumpy but successful.
Sounds scary Andrew!
I had every confidence in the BA pilots but my palms were admittedly a little sweaty! Glad to get on the runway.