According to IPMA, the districts of Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Portalegre, Braga, Santarém, Bragança, Setúbal, Viseu, Beja, Évora, Guarda, Vila Real, Faro and Leiria will be under an orange warning until 18:00 on Monday, Viana do Castelo, Porto and Aveiro will be under yellow warning.

Due to the “persistence of extremely high maximum temperature values”, Lisbon is under red warning from 6:39 am to 11:00 pm today, says the IPMA.

From 23:00 onwards, Lisbon changes to orange until 24:00 on Monday, and then to yellow between 00:00 and 18:00 on Tuesday.

“The weather in mainland Portugal is being influenced by an anticyclone located north of the Azores, which extends in a crest to the Bay of Biscay, allowing a meteorological situation of hot and dry weather”, he indicated. the IPMA.

For today, the IPMA predicts for mainland Portugal warm weather with generally clear skies, with light to moderate wind (up to 25 kilometers per hour).

Between today and Wednesday, the maximum temperature is expected to vary between 35 and 40 degrees in most of the country, with the exception of the western coastal strip, which may reach values above 40 degrees inland, informed the IPMA, noting that the nights should be hot.