According to information from the Portuguese government, the next victim of the storms and floods over Portugal is a 46-year-old gendarme. The tragedy occurred while patrolling one of the roads, when an officer fell into the water. The Portuguese civil defense authorities have not yet disclosed the circumstances of the tragedy, limiting themselves to information that the victim “was at the water line.”
How many people have died since January due to hurricanes in Portugal?
What were the effects of hurricane Marta?
How many households were left without electricity after the storm?
What damage did the storms cause in Portugal?
Hurricanes have been raging since January
According to current estimates by the Portuguese authorities, 14 people have died due to hurricanes over the country since January. They also corrected the previous statistics, specifying that the element was not the cause of death of one of the women whose body was found after the arrival of Hurricane Kristin.
With the arrival of Hurricane Marta on Saturday, rainfall occurred throughout Portugal, causing further floods and storms. Wind gusts of up to 120 km per hour were recorded in several areas of central and northern Portugal on Saturday afternoon.
The storms led to damage to the power grid. As a result, approximately 170,000 people are without electricity on Sunday morning. households.
As Antonio Monteiro, one of the affected farmers from the Castelo Branco district in the central east of the country, said in an interview with PAP, intense rains turned out to be less harmful than storms. — As a result of hurricane winds, I lost the metal roof on one of the farm buildings. In addition, the wind destroyed many cork oak trees, including specimens over a hundred years old. I estimate the losses at several dozen thousand euros, Monteiro estimated.
With the arrival of Hurricane Marta, forecasters expect snowfall in the northern part of Portugal on Sunday. On the shoreline, they expect waves up to 11 meters high.
