Maximum temperatures will drop, but remain above 20º across the country. The minimums may fall a lot, but only inland, reaching 10º in some of the coldest cities.
At the same time that the continent – and the entire Iberian Peninsula will wait for Odette – the Paulette depression should cause a gradual aggravation of the weather in the Azores, especially in the islands of Flores and Corvo, with an increase in maritime unrest and intensity of wind and rain.
On Tuesday, the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) reported that the hurricane Paulette should affect the western group of the Azores this weekend already as a post-tropical storm, after reaching the coast of Bermuda on Monday.
Depression Paulette is expected to worsen the weather in Flores and Corvo
The IPMA had already issued this Thursday yellow weather warnings for the western and eastern islands. In a statement, the IPMA said that, for the western group of the Azores (islands of Flores and Corvo), the yellow warning regarding sea agitation with northwest waves will be in effect from 6 am local (7 am in Lisbon) from Friday until at 6am on Saturday.
For those two islands, a yellow warning was also issued due to rain forecasts, sometimes heavy, between 9 pm on Friday and 12 pm on Saturday.
In the eastern group of the archipelago (São Miguel and Santa Maria), the yellow meteorological warning will be in effect between 6 am and 12 noon on Friday, since the forecasts also point to sometimes heavy rainfall on those two islands.
Climate change is causing some extreme phenomena: in addition to the five cyclones active at the same time in the Atlantic this week, something that happened for the first time in history (the last one was in 1971), Greece is preparing to receive in the next few hours a strong tropical storm. Once very rare in the Mediterranean, cyclones in this area have become increasingly frequent in recent years. The Greeks first met us in 1995, but in 2017 a storm caused flash floods that caused 25 deaths and left hundreds homeless and in 2018 there was another similar situation, but no fatalities.
The hurricane over Greece
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They are known as Mediterranean hurricanes, or medicanes, and this one that now approaches the Greek islands will cause winds of 200 km / h and heavy rains of between 200 and 400 l / m2 in a few hours. Greek authorities have already asked people to live by the sea or rivers and streams to try to move and to avoid unnecessary travel.
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