Black Friday

Translated and taken from Diario Noticias.

 This being a "Black Friday" at Madeira Airport. A few minutes ago the easyJet flight from Lisbon made an attempt and failed landing. The aircraft already follows return to the Portuguese capital.

In the accounts of this windy day at the airport influence zone, and when there are still four flights scheduled to arrive in Madeira until early in the morning, already have up 19 canceled flights (arrivals and departures) and 'only' 16 completed operations.Of canceled flights, three easyJet flights from the United Kingdom and came to take off in the direction of Funchal. Among others, most aircraft reached approaching the runway in an attempt to land, but eventually aborted.

Of the seven aircraft today managed to land on the island, the first was at 5:46 a.m. (Air Berlin) and the last aircraft of AeroVip (18h41) to enable connection to Porto Santo.

The critical period began drawing up from 9 in the morning. From then until now, beyond AeroVip the plane only other three aircraft landed in Madeira. 

Weather

Well today has all been about the weather today.

Its been cold with rain on and off, most places have seen hail stones, with Porto Santo being the best as the beach was covered in hail.

Lots of photos all over social media throughout the day today, some of the best below.

Some of you have put your name to the photo, if any person wants their name or website added to an image please let me know, as there has been so many going round today.

And these two are from Porto Santo

Weather Weather Weather

So we have all been talking about the weather over Europe, how cold wet and cloudy its been, and even in Madeira we have not really had any decent beach weather yet, and this looks set to continue through the rest of Summer.

I know from talking to friends on the Island that they have had summers like this in the past where the end of the year is a lot warmer and sunnier than what the summer had been, and this year looks set to be the coldes since 1816.

Read the full article HERE you will need to translate with Google if you don't read Portuguese.

Translated to English