50 years of April 25th
Arraial dos Cravos was canceled due to lack of support from Lisbon City Council, but at the end of Wednesday night, hundreds of people gathered at Largo do Carmo, in Lisbon, where they witnessed a unique moment to the sound of the ‘Grândola, Vila Morena’.
A “Operation End of Regime” was unleashed in the early hours of April 25, 1974, putting an end to 48 years of dictatorship in Portugal. Dozens of commemorative parades across the country are planned for this Thursday and the weather will not be prohibitive.
As Weather forecasts for April 25 are periods of very cloudy skies, light winds, good visibility and rough seas, according to the National Meteorological Service’s forecast from 50 years ago.
Five decades after the military coup that deposed the old regime, a (new) Thursday is expected with a lot of cloudiness in the north and center of mainland Portugal and little in the souththe wind will be strong in the western coastal strip and in the highlands, pending a drop in the maximum temperature, especially on the west coast, and a rise in the minimum in the northern and central interior.
Light rain may fall in the northern and central regions from the afternoon onwards, especially on the coast, indicates the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), which, since 1974, has been called the National Meteorological Service (SMN), National Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (INMG) and Institute of Meteorology (IP).
Clouds will also be present in Madeira and the Azores, but only light showers are expected in the central and eastern groups of the Azorean archipelago.
In Lisbon, where the military deposed the power led by Marcello Caetano, the air temperature, on April 25, 1974, did not exceed 15 degrees Celsius and for next Thursday it should not exceed 19º, from