DGS Recommends Heat Protection Measures in the Coming Days

The districts of Setúbal, Evora and Beja will be between Thursday and Friday under yellow notice due to the hot time, with Lisbon facing the same notice only on May 29th.

Hot and dry weather is due to a heat mass coming from North Africa. The IPMA content places four districts under yellow warning due to the heat appears first in Journal i.

The Directorate-General for Health today recommended preventive measures, such as drinking water, in view of the forecasts of rising temperatures in the coming days, which should reach values above 30°C in most of the country. Considering the weather forecasts from the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) advises regular consumption of water and avoiding the consumption of alcoholic beve…

The Directorate-General for Health (DGS) today released a series of preventive measures to face the increase in temperatures expected in the coming days, which could exceed 30°C in much of the national territory, according to forecasts from the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA). To minimize the risks associated with heat, the DGS […]

For Setúbal, Evora and Beja, the alert is valid from 09:00 a.m. on Thursday and remains until 18:00 a.m., as announced by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmospheric (IPMA) released today. In Lisbon, the alert is valid between 09:00 a.m. and 18:00 a.m. due to the hot weather alert, due to "persistance of high values of maximum temperature". At the end of the week, IPMA had already been alert for the gradual rise of temperature from W…

According to IPMA, the continuation of hot and dry weather is due to a large amount of hot air coming from North Africa.