Hail with a meter leads the greenhouses and crops – Society

Something very strange happened here. The size of the hailstones was equal to or greater than that of the golf stones, "explains Manuel Pereira, a resident of the village of Paradela de Monforte, in the municipality of Chaves.

The weather in the afternoon of Friday 13 was even a chance as hail and greenhouse losses are total, and yesterday afternoon, with a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, accumulated hail was still from one meter in several places, and even the scorching sun could not melt it. (19659002) The tears running down his face, Manuel Pereira does not believe in outside help and, with three children under 12 years old, "In Trás-os-Montes, we have never received any d & rsquo; Help and I do not think this time is different, "he says, while his neighbor, Joao Pereira, who also lives in damaged flower claws, says he feels unbearable" to eat the air of do damage assessment. "

" Just to renew the plastic greenhouses do not get me 12,000 euros and the crops damage involves at least six thousand euros, "calculates.The parish council president, Gilberto Jesus , awaits the visit of the mayor of Chaves tomorrow, to proceed to the assessment of the damage.

The northern zone of the country accumulates losses
The weather has caused damages in the At the end of in May, the city of Pinhão (Alijó) was flooded, and a few days later a o Same was affecting Lamego and Resende, destroying crops. Chaves was no exception and in a school, even the ceiling lights fell with the weight of hail on the roof. In Torre de Moncorvo, the village emerged in the mud after the storm, and in Vila Pouca de Aguiar, this month, a new weather inclement triggered chaos

The summer warm happens only in September
The Portuguese Sea and the atmosphere indicate as a trend, in its long-term forecast, the possibility of average temperatures above the usual values ​​for the season in the quarter which includes September, October and November, in the Northeast region

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According to the last census of the National Institute of Statistics, the municipality of Chaves in 2011 had 41 243 inhabitants . The village of Paradela had 262 inhabitants

Hail
Hail (or hail) is a form of precipitation in the form of irregular pieces of ice. Generally, hailstone has a diameter of five millimeters or more. Hail forms in large clouds, with a temperature below 0 ° C.