Weather in Albufeira today

Fairly grey out there earlier and some rain - out early, went paintballing!

Sort of cloudy and sunny, wind's getting up and its coming from the south and  south-west, where the darker clouds are.

At least the southerly wind means it's warm - 15C/60F.

If it's any consolation, it is even worse in much of the UK and northern Europe than it is here this afternoon.

Two friends had their golf rained off earlier.

Be ready to start complaining - we are already 31 days into the year , so there must be only ten more days of rain for 2009.

It has been raining most of the night but is clear now. Isolated showers around for this morning but as the day goes on it gets worse and tomorrow the forecast is black clouds and those little yellow flashes meaning storms and lightning and stuff.

Current temperature (0730) is 8C/47F rising to maybe 15C/60F but it won't seem anything like that with the clouds and rain around.

Wind from the south at the moment but moving around to the west bringing the rain with it over the next 24 - 36 hours.

All the forecasts are saying that next week will be pretty wet and gloomy, with just a chance of a day of respite around next Wednesday.

So if you are coming out over the next few days bring your rain hats.

Well. I dunno where everyone else is at the moment, but I have not long been home from a convivial night out. It's 00.30 local Sunday morning.

The wind is howling, the rain is lashing down, the whole of the region is on orange alert for bad weather of all descriptions. The lights are flickering, there's stuff rattling and banging about outside, but I am not going outside to see what it is.

Tomorrow is going to be much the same we hear.

No point in trying to sleep so I am off to catch up with the days sports news.

0208 and it is unspeakably horrible! I've got rain coming in through the balcony windows and the wind is ferocious, the noise is pretty bad. The radar picture shows the extent of the bad weather. The dark green bits are the really heavy rain.

I have had to open the doors leading to the balcony to reduce the howling noises and I am sitting here in the full expectation of the power going any moment!

cubsur wrote: 0208 and it is unspeakably horrible! I've got rain coming in through the balcony windows and the wind is ferocious, the noise is pretty bad. The radar picture shows the extent of the bad weather. The dark green bits are the really heavy rain. I have had to open the doors leading to the balcony to reduce the howling noises and I am sitting here in the full expectation of the power going any moment!

yay you survived, it looked a bit bad when i was going to the airport yesterday

A combination of high tides and surface water draining from inland has wreaked havoc with the beach at Salema here : http://www.portugal-webcams.com/Salema/webcam-salema-mega.jpg