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Bruna Leaves 145 Incidents in Madeira as Warnings Return

By The Daily Byte ·09 Nov 2026 ·3 min read
Heavy rain and rough seas in Funchal, Madeira, as depression Bruna batters the Portuguese islands

Depression Bruna left at least 145 incidents across Madeira, displaced a family of five and forced dozens of flight cancellations, and Portugal's weather service has now issued fresh warnings for the islands for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Madeira's Civil Protection service counted 145 occurrences linked to the bad weather, with fallen trees and floods the most common. Funchal recorded the most, with 66, followed by Santa Cruz with 31. An earlier count on Sunday morning had put the total at 125 incidents since 08:00 on Saturday, with 306 operatives and 122 land vehicles deployed across the archipelago.

Of the 111 incidents signalled by 23:00 on Saturday, 47 were fallen trees, 28 were floods, 16 involved road and signage clearance and eight were mass movements of earth. In Santo Antonio da Serra, in the municipality of Santa Cruz, flooding inundated a house and forced a family of five from their home. Municipal services said the family was receiving support. Rain fell so heavily that the drainage network could not cope, leaving vehicles floating, and a gust of 131 kilometres per hour was recorded at Chao do Areeiro.

Flight disruption at Madeira Airport continued through the weekend, with 37 flights cancelled on Saturday alone as the storm intensified. Cruise ship calls at the port of Funchal were called off, several road access points were closed in Funchal, Camara de Lobos, Ribeira Brava and Ponta do Sol, and all hiking trails in the autonomous region were shut. Two top-flight football matches were postponed.

Portugal's weather service, IPMA, has now issued new yellow warnings for Madeira and Porto Santo, expecting conditions to worsen again between Tuesday 10 November and Wednesday 11 November. Rain and wind warnings take effect at 21:00 on Tuesday, with gusts of up to 75 kilometres per hour on the coasts and Porto Santo, and up to 95 kilometres per hour in the mountains. The wind warning ends at 10:00 on Wednesday, while the rain warning runs until midday. A yellow sea warning is also in force for the south coast on Wednesday morning, with waves of four to 4.5 metres, and similar sea warnings apply to the north coast and Porto Santo on Monday.

The new alerts follow a night of orange warnings on Saturday, when IPMA placed the whole archipelago under orange rain and wind warnings from 18:00. The orange wind warning ran until midnight and the orange rain warning until 03:00 on Sunday, before both were downgraded to yellow. Speaking to RTP Noticias early on Sunday, civil protection commander Valter Ferreira said conditions had improved but warned the day would still prove very unstable.

IPMA expects mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores to be affected from Sunday until Friday 13 November by rain, wind and rough seas as the depression sits north of the Azores. Forecasters have also warned of a possible new storm that could affect Madeira in particular later in the week.