The chamber of Coimbra decided this fourth day, January 28, to close the schools after the passage of depression Kristin from the director, said the leader of civil protection Ricardo Lino in the agency Lusa.
Between 00:00 and 06:00, civil protection is called to 655 incidents across the country.
Continental Portugal was affected by the effects of the transition of depression Kristin, after two storms in the last days – Ingrid and Joseph – with noise, wind, snow and sea turbulence, I heard various warnings from the Português Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA).
The civil protection is in a special state of readiness at level 4 or maximum, along the entire coast between Viana do Castelo and Setúbal, to avoid weather depressions crossing Portugal in this situation.
The district of Coimbra in Aveiro in the north and in Leiria in the south is the area most prone to depression Kristin, which occurs in the Joseph depression, which the IPMA qualifies as “explosive cyclogenesis”, thermally used for a depression of strong intensity, both in the wind and in the wind.
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