“Around 90 per cent of the country’s mainland is now suffering from drought with severe drought affecting one-fifth of its territory. This is twice as much as in March and nearly five times the area reported a year earlier,” Euronews writes, citing data from IPMA, the country’s national meteorological organization.
Hundreds of firefighters battle blaze near Lisbon | Reuters
August 1, 2022
“Weather agency IPMA said three districts in northern Portugal would be on “red alert” for extreme heat on Monday,” according to Reuters.
