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

Snow on the Peaks

Some nice photos of yesterdays snow on the peaks from RTP Madeira's Facebook Page.

Enjoy the photos below.

December and January have been very dry, with 10 times less rainfall in Funchal.

A translation of the article below.

"In December 2014 and January 2015, in Funchal, it rained about ten times less than would be normal," he told Lusa Vitor Prior, director of the Meteorological Observatory of Funchal, stressing that the rain has been scarce in particular on the south coast Madeira and in mountainous regions.

"In Funchal, were recorded only 16.1 mm in December 2014 and 6.3 mm in January 2015, when normal values ​​are 109.4 mm and 90.6 mm respectively," he said.

Also in Areeiro Peak (1818 meters) the amount of rainfall was recorded about 25% of the normal value for those two months while Santana (northern island) and the Port St. was about 50% of normal .

"The reduced rainfall readings in these two months are associated with the continued presence of the Azores anticyclone, which has blocked the approach and passage of frontal surfaces in Madeira, which are associated with the normal values ​​of the amount and number of days with precipitation, "explained Victor Prior.

First winter snow

The first snow of the winter fell last night over the high ground temperatures fell below freezing and today roads to the peaks will stay closed because of the snow cover.

Photos below by Marcio Virissimo and Hugo Reis, and Camara Municipal Funchal .

Later in the early evening, Paul da Serra was covered in a large amount of tiny hail, painting the area white.

Photos from the Diario de Noticias