Weather in Albufeira today

It turned out quite nice yesterday. Although a big black cloud passed to the north of us during the early afternoon, it didn't rain here and was sunny.

This morning has started rather cloudy, some of it grey. Rain is not forecast however.Temperature at 825am is 16.5C, wind is light and from the north-west.

Maximum today will be 19 or 20C, it should stay dry and the sun will be out between the clouds.

It won't be very warm tonight, down to 12 or 13C.

Heavy showers are forecast for tomorrow, lighter showers for Thursday.

Update  1515hrs - very windy, sea looks rough, black clouds scudding by and it's raining on and off.

Temperature 16.1C.

Rain is going to be with us until the weekend by the look of it. Maximum daytime temperatures no higher than around 18C and there won't be much sun to be seen. Fairly cool at night, 11 or 12C.

Southern Portugal even got a mention on the BBC1 News weather forecast at 5.55 this morning. They reckon it's going to be very rough for the next couple of days - lots of rain, gale force winds & very rough seas.
Hold on tight

5.45pm and the sea looks to be calm enough for this time of the year.

Massive thunder over the Algarve last night.

It was very wild and wet last night. Strong gusts of wind with heavy, sometimes torrential, rain for most of the evening and well into the night. No thunder here though. (Further north the Europa League match between Estoril and PSV was abandoned at half time because of flooding.)

It's raining this morning, but nowhere near as hard as around 10pm last night. It's fairly cold as well, 13.4C at 0835am. There is a whole mass of showers, some heavy, swilling around to the south and west so it is going to be another very wet day. There is some blue sky out there just now but big black clouds are moving in.

Maximum today 16or 17C during breaks in the clouds. Saturday should be less worse but still with a few showers, then for Sunday we are forecast yet more heavy and thundery showers.

(I have the local news channel on in the background but so far no mention of weather or any consequences.)

It's been raining fairly hard almost all night, hard enough to get me out of bed at 630am. Right now, the sky is completely black to the south and west and a fairly unpleasant few hours look to be in prospect a bit further west - the big black bits are sliding past us out to sea and I can now see clearer skies coming in from the east. There is a large mass of rain and heavy showers to the south of us, gently swirling around.

Temperature at 0815 is 13.6C, just a light wind from the south.

Maximum temperature is almost irrelevant, 17 or 18C. Thunder and lightning are highly possible.

One all that is done, we should have some better and warmer weather, maybe later today and certainly for Sunday and Monday with sunny spells, no rain and temperature up to around 20C.