Two storms in one week: Bruna now, Charles from Wednesday

November 10, 2026, Portugal

Morning. It's Tuesday, 10 November. Lisbon 20° · Porto 18° · Faro 23°, with rain and thunderstorms across the mainland, rough seas on the west coast and orange warnings in Madeira from tonight. Let's get into it.

📰 THE MAIN STORY

Bruna, the slow-moving Atlantic storm, brought orange rain warnings until 9am today to Évora, Santarém, Castelo Branco and Portalegre, and yellow warnings for thunderstorms, heavy rain and gusts of 70 to 90 km/h across most of the mainland, according to IPMA, the national weather service. By midday yesterday, civil protection had logged 189 flood incidents, reported by Diário de Notícias. IPMA expects Bruna to sit almost still north-west of the Iberian Peninsula until Friday.

What it means for you: a second storm, Charles, arrives tomorrow from the south, by way of Madeira.

Watch out for: never cross a flooded road or path, on foot or by car, and keep away from the seafront, trees, old walls and slopes. That is the advice civil protection in Madeira gave yesterday, and it applies anywhere. IPMA says there is still some uncertainty about Charles's track and strength, so check its warnings before you travel.

Madeira has already had floods and landslides this week, with nine people displaced, and ferries between Madeira and Porto Santo were cancelled yesterday. Tomorrow is also São Martinho, the day of roasted chestnuts and new wine, so outdoor magustos and fairs may change their plans.

In short: today is wet everywhere, tomorrow is the windy day, so get ready tonight.

⚡ IN BRIEF

Councils here can keep up to 5% of their residents' IRS, the income tax, and 209 of the 308 are giving back some or all of it in 2027, more than €238 million in total, reported by Jornal de Notícias. Lisbon and Funchal return their whole share, Porto cuts its rate to 2.5% and Sintra to 3.5%, while 99 councils keep the full 5%.

The amount you get back depends on your council and how much IRS you pay. This only applies if you pay income tax in Portugal, and the Portal das Finanças, the tax portal, lists every council's rate.

About one in 14 rental homes advertised in Portugal between July and September was taken down within 24 hours, according to idealista, the property portal, reported by The Portugal News. The share reached 17% in the Setúbal and Viana do Castelo districts and 23% in the city of Viana do Castelo, against 4% in Lisbon and Porto.

The figures only count listings removed, not deals signed. If you're house-hunting, set up alerts and have your documents ready before you view.

Cristiano Ronaldo is making his film debut in Stuntnuts, a comedy alongside Matt Damon and Chris Hemsworth, made by the production company he founded with Matthew Vaughn, the director of Kingsman, reported by The Portugal News. The story follows two stuntmen who take on a Hollywood production to save their community gym.

Filming starts in December, and the size of Ronaldo's role is still unclear. Days after leaving the national team, it gives the country a new Ronaldo topic for the café.

📍 WORTH THE TRIP

The façade alone stops you: a palace, a basilica and a convent in pale lioz stone, stretching along one side of the town square. Mafra lies north-west of Lisbon, and King João V ordered the complex in 1717. More than 45,000 men worked on it, and the skills learned there later helped rebuild Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

The highlight is the library, 88 metres long with more than 30,000 books, where a colony of bats eats the insects that would damage the paper. They hide during the day. The basilica's towers hold 120 bells, including two carillons cast in 1730 in Liège and Antwerp. Allow one and a half to two hours. The catch: it's huge, so pace yourself and wear comfortable shoes.

Before you go: take the A8 and then the A21 from Lisbon, or the Carris Metropolitana bus from Campo Grande to Ericeira, which stops in Mafra. Check opening hours and tickets on the palace's website before you go.

Local tip: Ericeira, the fishing town and surf spot, is about 10 km away, and the Tapada Nacional de Mafra, the old royal hunting ground, deserves half a day of its own.

Find it here: Google Maps

WORD OF THE DAY

Say it: teng-poo-RAL

Meaning: a storm, a spell of rough wind and rain

“Com este temporal, é melhor não ir à praia.”
With this storm, it's better not to go to the beach.

You'll hear it on the news all week. Tempestade is the storm itself, often with a name, like Bruna or Charles, while temporal describes the stormy weather it brings.

Storm Charles may change outdoor plans tomorrow, so check with organisers before you go.

North

Porto

Centre

Lisbon

South

Islands

Até amanhã,

Gabriel - DailyPortugal