Close to 400 cancelled flights in Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Madeira

Perto of 400 flights were cancelled at the airports of Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Madeira due to the passage of depression Charles, according to a balance sheet of the airport manager ANA.

These numbers include flights cancelled until 6:30 p.m. today and those that had already been deleted.

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 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.