The four municipal roads in the municipality of Castro Verde, closed to traffic since Tuesday due to the bad weather caused by the passage of depression Charles, have already been reopened to traffic, according to the House.
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11/11/2026
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Lusa
Afour municipal roads in the municipality of Castro Verde, district of Beja, closed to traffic since Tuesday due to bad weather caused by the passage of depression Charles were already reopened to traffic, indicated today the House.
In a statement released on social networks, the Câmara de Castro Verde informs that the circulation has already been resumed on the municipal roads linking the Entradas localities to São Marcos da Ataboeira, Geraldos a Monte Cerro, Rolão a Viseus and Estação de Ourique a Conceição.
According to the municipality, the decision was taken “following the slowdown of weather conditions”.
The roads were closed since 19:00 on Tuesday due to “the adverse weather conditions foreseen” for today, with strong winds and persistent rain, following the passage of depression Charles through national territory.
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 to the Algarve, the only region to maintain, in the middle of the afternoon, red weather warnings, due to rain and wind, however disabled.
The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority recorded more than 1,600 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 300.
Close to two 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.