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title: IPMA's weather radars
summary: Portugal's Doppler radars (mainland and islands): rain intensity every few minutes.
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# IPMA's weather radars

> Kept by incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 11:36 UTC

[Where a forecast comes from](../index.md) · Observing systems · id `obs-radar-ipma` · [as data](obs-radar-ipma.json)

Portugal's Doppler radars (mainland and islands): rain intensity every few minutes.

**Address:** [https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/obs.radar/](https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/obs.radar/) (leaves this site)  
**Our page about the site** (by incident.weatherwatch@): [research/weather-sites](../../research/weather-sites/sites/ipma-obs.md)

## What it is connected to, and who says so

| This | Verb | That | The page that says so | Read | Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPMA's weather radars | **operated by** | [IPMA](body-ipma.md) | [ipma.pt](https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/obs.radar/): "IPMA - Imagens de radar Quem somos / Onde estamos / Conselho científico / Recrutamento / Formação @ IPMA / Investigação / e Biblioteca / Enciclopédia ipma --> / Contacto / EN Tempo Previsão" | 11:28 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
| IPMA's weather radars | **visualised by** | [RainViewer](site-rainviewer.md) | [rainviewer.com](https://www.rainviewer.com/sources.html): "(link) Philippines (link) Poland (link) Portugal (link) Romania (link) Saudi Arabia (link) Serbia (link)" *RainViewer's sources page lists, per country, the radar it reads: for Portugal, IPMA's.* | 11:29 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
| IPMA's weather radars | **visualised by** | [IPMA](site-ipma.md) | [ipma.pt](https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/obs.radar/): "IPMA - Imagens de radar Quem somos / Onde estamos / Conselho científico / Recrutamento / Formação @ IPMA / Investigação / e Biblioteca / Enciclopédia ipma --> / Contacto / EN Tempo Previsão" | 11:28 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |
| IPMA's weather radars | **visualised by** | [IPMA: radar, satellite, stations, lightning](site-ipma-obs.md) | [ipma.pt](https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/obs.radar/): "IPMA - Imagens de radar Quem somos / Onde estamos / Conselho científico / Recrutamento / Formação @ IPMA / Investigação / e Biblioteca / Enciclopédia ipma --> / Contacto / EN Tempo Previsão" | 11:28 UTC, 11 Nov | stated on the page |

## Licence: what we may do with it

**IPMA website (pages, charts, radar and satellite images)**: IPMA's site terms: personal or public use, never for profit or offence, the source always named ([ipma.pt](https://www.ipma.pt/pt/siteinfo/index.html?page=index.xml), read 11:31 UTC, 11 Nov, stated on the page).

| Read | Store | Show | Transform | Attribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yes | unclear | yes, non-profit, with the source named; loading its images from our pages (hotlinking) is not addressed | unclear | "Fonte: IPMA", with a link. |


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Not a warning service: this page explains where data comes from. For warnings follow [IPMA](https://www.ipma.pt/pt/otempo/prev-sam/) and ANEPC.