What Portugal searched for on 6 September 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 19:20: granizo (20K+), ilha do fogo (20K+), sesimbra (10K+), deportação (5K+), contentor (5K+), aeroporto (2K+).

• granizo20K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  Overnight into Sunday, hailstones three centimetres across fell in Branca near Albergaria-a-Velha and in Pinheiro da Bemposta and Palmaz near Oliveira de Azeméis. Roofs were holed or torn off and car windows smashed; nobody was hurt or left homeless. IPMA had put the district of Aveiro under a yellow thunderstorm warning, forecasting hailstones under two centimetres and gusts of 70–⁠90 km/h. In the end it was worse.

  What to do if hail has damaged your car or roof. Compulsory insurance (responsabilidade civil) covers damage you cause to others, not damage to your own property. Hail falls under the "natural phenomena" risk, which only comes with comprehensive cover and is not always included by default. Our guide to car insurance explains what a policy is made up of and what to check in it. The deadline for reporting the damage to your insurer is short and is set out in the policy itself, so check it straight away rather than putting it off.

  Today and Monday bring the opposite extreme: seven districts (Beja, Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Lisboa, Portalegre and Setúbal) are under an IPMA heat warning until 21:00 on Monday. Our guide to heat and wildfires explains what to do on days like these.

  Source: 24noticias.sapo.pt

  

• deportação5K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  The "return law", which rewrites the rules for removing foreigners, was signed by the President on 31 August. On 28 August the Constitutional Court had found nothing unconstitutional in eleven disputed provisions. We covered both steps: the court ruling and the President's signature.

  What it means for people without a valid residence permit. When announcing the law, the government set out four changes: the notice of voluntary departure (NAV) is abolished; the maximum time a person can be held in a temporary detention centre rises from the current 60 days to 180, with a possible further 180; the entry ban after forced removal gets longer; and all return cases are brought together in a single service, UNEF, which is part of the PSP. Lighter alternatives to detention are also introduced: surrendering your travel document or paying a bond.

  There is no start date yet: the law has to be published in the Diário da República, which will state when its provisions take effect, and as of 6 September the text had not appeared there. We don't know why people started searching for this today in particular: no new decision has been made in the past day.

  Source: portugal.gov.pt

  

• aeroporto2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  From today, at Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports, non-EU travellers coming for short stays have their fingerprints and a facial image taken: the European Entry/Exit System (EES) is now fully up and running. It replaces the passport stamp with a digital record of which document a person entered with and when they left. Until now, biometric checks could be skipped at peak times to keep queues down; from 6 September that is no longer allowed.

  Who is not affected: EU citizens and, among non-EU nationals, anyone with a Portuguese residence permit or a long-stay D visa. If you live here on a residence permit, the system does not take your fingerprints at the border. It applies to people coming for up to 90 days in any six-month period: guests, tourists, relatives on a Schengen visa. On the first visit, a facial image and fingerprints are taken; after that, the system uses that record to count the days automatically.

  What to do: if you are meeting guests, or flying yourself without a residence permit, allow extra time for passport control. When announcing the date, the Prime Minister openly warned of added pressure on Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports. We covered this in detail in our article of 27 August.

  Source: travel-europe.europa.eu

  

• ilha do fogo20K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  Not in Portugal, but people here were talking about it all day: on the island of Fogo in Cape Verde, a bus carrying schoolchildren plunged thirty metres, killing at least 25 people; children aged 6–⁠11 are among the injured. Cape Verde declared two days of mourning, and Portugal's President and Prime Minister sent their condolences.

  Source: rr.pt

• sesimbra10K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  Overnight, around thirty people came ashore in an inflatable boat on Foz beach in Meco, near Sesimbra, and were gone before a patrol arrived; the boat was found on the beach. The GNR is searching for them on land and at sea; by Sunday evening it was still not known who they were.

  Source: rr.pt

• contentor5K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  We couldn't find out what happened with the container: there is no matching incident in the news for 6–⁠7 September.

• jovem desaparecido lisboa2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  The search continues for a 23-year-old British man who went missing last week after a boat party on the Tagus: cameras showed him falling into the water by the quay. Maritime Police divers have been searching the Rocha do Conde de Óbidos dock since Friday.

  Source: cnnportugal.iol.pt

• palmela2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  On Estrada Vila Amélia in Quinta do Anjo, near Palmela, a car crashed at 5:34am, killing a young man and a young woman at the scene.

  Source: rr.pt

• passageiro1K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 21:06

  Searches for this word are being driven by today's airport news: from 6 September, biometrics are taken at passport control from non-EU passengers arriving for short stays — what this means.