Worsening of Forecast – Entire Archipelago on Yellow Alert
IPMA forecast worsened this Saturday afternoon, read the update below.
Until a few hours ago, the archipelago of Madeira was under 'Yellow' weather warning ma...
heavy rain
Torrential rain west and north of Madeira
The sometimes heavy rain has already fallen heavily this morning on the north coast of Madeira and the far west. The amount of rainfall recorded in seven of the...
Rainy night saw torrential rain in some areas
Although Funchal woke up almost dry, it rained torrentially in several places of the island during the night, mainly between the end of the night of yesterday a...
Heavy rain at dawn produces 3 records with red warning level, 10 orange and 11 yellow
The heavy rain of the last dawn produced, between midnight and 06 a.m., 24 records with level of meteorological warning, and the precipitation registered in thr...
Severe rainfall causes damage in Praia Formosa area
In the face of intense rainfall this morning, the Funchal City Hall was called to intervene on a private plot in the Praia Formosa area where water left its nat...
Weather Warnings Criticised
People are slamming the weather warnings for Madeira over social networks.
We have had warnings on and off for well over a week now with no real bad weather, b...
Santa Luzia Video
Santa Luzia River in Funchal
In the images, it is possible to observe the force with which the water runs towards the sea, and the high levels of precipitation...
Madeira now placed under red alert
Madeira has niw been placed on red alert for heavy rain over the mountainous areas of the island, this will be in place from 8am till 3pm....
Weather Warning Update
The bad weather is certainly on its way now, and the Cival Protection has closed all pedestrian routes, so all walks mountain and Levada walks are closed for at...
Madeira on Orange Alert from tomorrow
Thank you to Nelio Filipe Marques for the great photo taken yesterday.
Today is much calmer as forecast, but the weather will change again from tomorrow. If ...
Warning Raised to Orange for Sunday
The IPMA has raised the warning for Madeira to Orange for tomorrow. There will be heavy periods of rain with the possibility of thunder especially over the moun...
Early Warning of Possible Strong Winds and Heavy Rain
Associated with a depression that will also affect the neighbouring archipelago of the Canaries, Madeira is expected to face heavy rains next Sunday and Tuesday...
Weather and airport
Well what a day, torrential rain is hitting this side of the island, again no warnings, it's really closed and and non stop rain for about 2 hours now.
The we...
Yesterdays Rain
While much of the island was basking in sunshine yesterday, rain moved into the south east of Madeira from around 3pm.
This rain intensified so much during the...
Machines removed from river
Due to the heavy rain over night and this morning, the machinery which has been clearing and working in the river Santa Luzia was removed for precaution.
All r...
Madeira on Orange Alert
Madeira is on alert for rain tonight, this can be heavy at times, especially over the mountainous areas. The higher areas of Madeira have an orange warning, whi...
Weather alert upgraded
An Orange weather warning has been issued for the whole of Madeira and Porto Santo. The orange warning for rain, heavy at times with possible thunderstorms with...
Road to river in Canhas
The heavy rain over night and this morning turned a road in Canhas Ponta do Sol into a river, it was at it's worse this morning around 9am, but has now subsided...
Weather Update 16.30
Heavy rain is being felt in the south of the region at the moment, already over the mountains 100mm of rain has already fallen.
A large Eucalyptus tree has blo...
