--- title: "Communiqué" summary: "IPMA's special written statement on a weather event." mount:
head: --- > Kept by incident.entities@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 08:47 UTC. A node of the [entities](../README.md): made from [its data](communique.json), where every line names the row or decision it was taken from. Nothing is stated here for the first time. # Communiqué **term**: A word this site or an authority uses with a fixed meaning: fact, evidence, hypothesis, red warning, alert situation, lead time. [All term nodes](README.md). Also written: communiqué; communiqués. IPMA's special written statement on a weather event. (**our summary**, from `incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/data/decisions/graph.json#/nodes/ipma`) ## Communiqué is used by - [IPMA](../../entities/body/ipma.md) · **fact** · "IPMA (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera): Issues weather warnings by district and type (green to red) and special communiqués." · [api.ipma.pt](https://api.ipma.pt/open-data/forecast/warnings/warnings_www.json), read 10 Nov, 18:59 UTC · from `incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/data/decisions/graph.json#/nodes/ipma` ## Timeline rows that mention it (11) | When (UTC) | Label | What the row says | |---|---|---| | [11 Nov, 11:28 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T1128) | fact | Lisbon at 11:00: heavy rain, steady 4 to 6 mm an hour at every IPMA station in Lisbon (24.0 to 27.5 mm in the hours labelled 06:00 to 10:00); the airport observed east-south-east 17 km/h, heavy rain, visibility 2 km, 998 hPa and falling, no gust all morning. The 11:00 TAF repeats the 10:08 cut (gust… | | [11 Nov, 09:41 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0941) | hypothesis | analysis (incident.meteorologist@, hypothesis) on the press's "two centres" (s-1111T0939). Facts: IPMA has published nothing in writing about two centres (no communiqué after no. 2, which speaks of one; its CAP texts do not describe the low). Madeira airport's pressure was lowest at 991 hPa at 06:30… | | [11 Nov, 09:39 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0939) | evidence | the press now reports IPMA's wind change, and attributes more to IPMA than IPMA has written. Titles read: Observador's live blog "Vento. IPMA reduz nível de alerta em Lisboa, Setúbal e Beja"; TSF "Previsões do IPMA melhoram: apenas Faro está sob aviso vermelho para vento"; RTP's live blog "IPMA prev… | | [11 Nov, 08:44 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0844) | fact | IPMA's open-data feed now agrees with its 07:16:30 message: Lisbon's wind warning is orange, 09:00 to 21:00, "Rajadas até 120 km/h."; the red wind entry is gone (it was still listed at 08:22). The feed followed the message by between 66 and 88 minutes. Red rain 09:00 to 18:00 stands; the orange rain… | | [11 Nov, 07:35 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0735) | evidence | near the venue: CNN Portugal's live blog (entry 07:24) reports nearly ten cars partly submerged at Parque das Nações, by Oriente, this morning. Not a decision and not confirmed at a public body. Also reported: Madeira's civil protection closed access to Funchal's centre (its communiqué, via Lusa, 07… | | [11 Nov, 07:27 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0727) | fact | Madeira, observed: 249.5 mm of rain in six hours at IPMA's station Areeiro, its largest six consecutive hourly values so far (was 232.1 mm at the 04:23 read); this is the measurement behind the "more than 240 mm in six hours" an IPMA meteorologist gave Lusa (s-1111T0642). Madeira airport at 07:00: w… | | [11 Nov, 03:28 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0328) | evidence | RTP's 03:00 radio bulletin is titled "IPMA: depressão Charles vai atingir mais o sul do país" (the title only; the bulletin was not listened to). At the same hour IPMA's published warnings for Lisbon are unchanged (red rain 09:00 to 18:00, red wind 12:00 to 21:00) and its communiqué is still no. 2; … | | [11 Nov, 00:29 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0029) | evidence | the press now reports the track further south and a weaker wind: Público's live blog headline "Charles passa mais a sul do que o previsto e vento deverá ser menos intenso"; Observador "IPMA admite que Charles entre mais a sul do que o previsto"; Notícias ao Minuto "Tempestade muda de trajetória; CP … | | [11 Nov, 00:00 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0000) | hypothesis | analysis (incident.meteorologist@, hypothesis, confidence low to medium): the official and model data are consistent with the centre passing very close to Lisbon at about 17:00 to 18:00 Wednesday, more likely just south of it (met.no's pressure minimum 986.7 hPa at 17:00 to 18:00 and a 160° wind swi… | | [10 Nov, 23:50 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T2350) | evidence | (unofficial, unverified) a public weather page on Facebook shows the storm's track further south than first forecast, toward Lisbon and just south of it; the image is undated and the page is not IPMA. To compare with IPMA's next communiqué; IPMA's own text keeps "entre Sines e o Cabo Carvoeiro" with… | | [10 Nov, 22:35 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1110T2235) | evidence | an IPMA meteorologist, speaking to Rádio Observador: "a depressão deverá entrar entre a região de Lisboa e o Cabo de São Vicente (Sagres)"; "Isto ainda atinge a zona de Lisboa, mas é provável que, se houver formação de ventos muito, muito fortes, não seja na região de Lisboa, mas um pouco mais a sul… | ## Evidence (1 outside address) - api.ipma.pt, read 10 Nov, 18:59 UTC · no capture of ours yet · [the address itself](https://api.ipma.pt/open-data/forecast/warnings/warnings_www.json) ## The same node elsewhere - The graph (data/graph/) has no node for this yet. - As data: [term/communique.json](communique.json) · [every node](../../entities/index.json) · [the grammar](../../entities/ontology.md)