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A spokesman for the southern SATA airline, SATA, told Lusa this morning that weather conditions in the archipelago were preventing Azores Airlines Lisbon / Terceira / Lisboa from taking the plane, adding that "passengers will be reconfigured this afternoon on a link via Ponta Delgada "(São Miguel Island).
The bad weather also forced the cancellation of flights Terceira / São Jorge / Terceira, Ponta Delgada / Horta / Ponta Delgada and Horta / Flores / Horta, but the passengers of these flights, SATA Air Azores, will only travel "Wednesday" Because of the bad weather "can not predict his replacement today," said António Portugal.
A source from the Azores Regional Civil Protection and Fire Department told Lusa that there were "six occurrences in the islands of Flores, São Jorge and Terceira", "tree falls" , roofs released houses and the collapse of a pole light, already resolved situations ".
Due to the state of the sea, the maritime authorities have decided today to close all ports of Poças ports, Santa Cruz das Flores and Lajes do Pico.
The Azores Regional Government has ordered the closure of schools, kindergartens and kindergartens in the Central (Terceira, São Jorge, Graciosa, Faial and Pico) and Western (Flores) groups. and Corvo).
In a statement, the Azorean Executive explained that, as a precautionary measure, the Regional Secretariat for Social Solidarity recommended the closure of schools of different educational cycles, kindergartens and schools. nursery schools, recreation centers and professional activity centers. and day centers.
In its latest update, the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) explains that at 8 am (plus an hour in Lisbon), the Diana Depression was "at 384 kilometers northwest of Flores and maintained the northeastern movement ".
Until now, the maximum recorded gust was 138 kilometers at the hour on the island of Flores at 05:30 local time, according to IPMA.
Quoted in a statement, meteorologist Vanda Costa of the IPMA delegation in the Azores said that "gusts of up to 130 km / h in the western group (Flores and Corvo) and waves up to 12 meters in height significant (with a maximum probable wave to reach the 21 meters) ".
The weather should show a gradual improvement towards the end of the day.
In the core group, IPMA says that, throughout the day, gusts could reach 120 km / h and that the waves could reach a significant height of nine meters.
Heavy rainfall is also expected from the end of the afternoon until the early hours of Wednesday morning.
For the eastern group (São Miguel and Santa Maria), sometimes heavy rains are expected from this night to Wednesday morning, as well as the increasing turmoil of the sea, with waves reaching up to six meters in height significant to the sea. Dawn of Wednesday.
The IPMA has issued a red warning to Flores and Corvo regarding the turmoil of the sea, which will come into effect until 18:00 today.
The red alert is the highest of the weather alerts and represents an extreme weather situation.
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