The Algarve recorded 31 occurrences due to the bad weather between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m., with most related to falls of trees and clearance of roads, according to Civil Protection.
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11/11/2026
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Lusa
O Algarve recorded in the last three hours 31 occurrences due to bad weather, most related to falling trees and freeways, although there was a slowdown in weather conditions, Civil Protection reported.
In a review carried out at 9:00 p.m., the Algarve’s Regional Civil Protection Command highlighted that “in the face of the downturn of bad weather, at this time only the Municipal Command Posts of Albufeira, Loulé and Monchique are still in operation”.
From 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., 11 occurrences were recorded due to falls of trees and 10 due to cleanliness and clearance of roads, as well as four floods and three falls of structures, according to the last balance of the Algarve Civil Protection.
The rain and wind caused by the passage of depression Charles through the national territory caused, since 00:00, a total of 223 occurrences, of which 67 were falls of trees and 51 floods, accounted for the same source.
During the afternoon, there were also four people who were displaced after their apartment, in Armação de Pera, in the municipality of Silves, “to have been flooded”, clarified the Algarve Civil Protection, referring that the relocation would be done at home of family members.
Adverse weather conditions have also caused several road traffic constraints, with total and partial road cuts in different Algarve municipalities.
In Faro, cuts were recorded on several streets and accesses, including Faro Beach, while in Lagos, Avenida das Comunidades Portuguesas is partially conditioned due to the fall of trees.
In the municipality of Lagoa, total road cuts were implemented due to floods and preventive reasons.
In Portimão, the circulation is completely forbidden on the municipal road 1081 (Mexilhoeira Grande-Monchique direction) due to the accumulation of water.
Also in Loulé preventive interdictions were determined on several roads, being the National Road 270 partially conditioned due to a movement of lands.
In the area of energy, an interruption of electric supply was reported in Mexilhoeira da Cargação, in the municipality of Lagoa, reads in the note of the CREPC of the Algarve.
The maritime bars of the Algarve are closed to all navigation, namely that of the Baleeira (Sagres, in the municipality of Vila do Bispo), Lagos, Alvor (Portimão), Portimão, Albufeira, Vilamoura (Loule), Quarteira (Loule), Faro, Olhão, Tavira and Guadiana (Vila Real de Santo António).
The interventions in the district of Faro mobilized a total of 859 people and 320 technical means, concluded the Civil Protection.
The Faro district, the only one in the country that was under red weather warning in the middle of the afternoon due to wind and rain, is no longer covered by this maximum level.
According to information available before 6:00 p.m. at the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the Algarve district is now under orange warning (the second most severe on a scale of three) due to the predictions of maritime agitation until 9:00 p.m., when it passed to the yellow warning.
The depression Charles, which motivated the activation of the alert situation throughout the territory of mainland Portugal from 00:00 to 23:59 today, lost power during the morning and divided into two cores of low pressure, one towards Lisbon and the other towards the Algarve.
The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority registered up to 12:00 more than 500 occurrences related to bad weather on the continent, especially floods, falls of trees and collapses, while in Madeira, the first region to suffer the effects of the storm, there were more than 200.
More than a dozen people had to be relocated due to damage to their homes, but there is no record of victims.
In addition to closing schools and non-essential public services, bad weather motivated the cancellation of a few hundred flights and the cutting of roads.