Portugal Issues Red Rain and Wind Warnings for Madeira
Portugal's weather agency, IPMA, issued red warnings for heavy rain and damaging wind on the island of Madeira, in force from Tuesday night, Nov. 10, 2026, into Wednesday morning, Nov. 11, 2026. The warnings were issued at 6:14 a.m. UTC.
As of 7:57 a.m. UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, IPMA's current-warnings page showed the red rain warning covering Madeira's South Coast and its mountainous interior, Regiões Montanhosas, where IPMA's bulletin, carried through the MeteoAlarm feed, describes rain that is "sometimes heavy and persistent." It runs from 9 p.m. UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, to 6 a.m. UTC on Nov. 11, 2026. A separate red wind warning for the mountainous interior, running from midnight to 6 a.m. UTC on Nov. 11, 2026, warns of wind gusts up to 140 km/h.
The island's North Coast is under orange warnings instead, for the same two hazards. The bulletin there describes wind gusts "of up to 100 km/h, specially in west and east," running from 9 p.m. UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, to noon on Nov. 11, 2026, and rain of the same "heavy and persistent" character, running from 9 p.m. UTC on Nov. 10, 2026, to 9 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2026. IPMA's own page lists Porto Santo, Madeira's second island, as orange as well.
The warnings are part of the same IPMA bulletin that first placed Madeira under orange-level wind and rain alerts, now escalated to red for the South Coast and the mountainous interior. No damage, outage or casualty has been reported by any source as of this writing.
