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Portugal will boil with 40°C and then... gets hit with thunderstorms, hail and rain

Notícias de Coimbra2 September 2026 at 08:56

Portugal will face a significant change in the weather at the beginning of September. After a period of intense heat, with temperatures that could reach 40 degrees Celsius, the country should be affected by thunderstorms, hail and rain.

The weather forecast indicates an abrupt transition in climate conditions, moving from a scenario of very high temperatures to a situation of atmospheric instability with severe weather phenomena.

This change occurs precisely at the beginning of September, a period that marks the transition from summer to autumn in mainland Portugal.

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