This milestone deserves the attention of meteorology and climatology experts. Hurricane Melissa is now among the three hurricanes that intensified by more than 110 km/h in 24 hours in 2025.
Alfredo Graça graduated in Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto (FLUP) in 2017. In 2018, he presented a project at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto about the historic parish of São Julião (Portalegre), as part of the IJUP (University of Porto Young Research Meeting). In the same year, he was one of the authors of the poster on sea level variation published in Research Gate, which was exhibited at a conference on climate change at FLUP.
He completed a period of mobility under the Erasmus programme at the Geography Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2018/2019 and then did an internship at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Porto (IGUP), where he developed his master's dissertation. He gained a Master's degree in Risks, Cities and Spatial Planning from FLUP in 2020. A few years earlier, he took summer courses related to Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon (2013) and at the University of Oxford (Oxford Summer Courses, 2015).
In late 2021 and early 2022 he collaborated with the company Planoclima. In 2022 he took part in a Hackathon in Scientific Communication at the University of Porto and attended the Azores Summer School in Marine Palaeobiogeography on the island of Santa Maria, Azores.
In the 2022/2023 academic year, he decided to pursue his passion for geography, weather and climate and enrolled in the Master's programme in Geography Teaching (FLUP), where he pursued his old dream of becoming a teacher. In 2023, he took part in a Training Course in E-Sustainability, representing the Youth Association of which he is a member (Geoclube), a partner of the French Association RESOPA (Réseau Solidaire & Participatif) and promoted by the Erasmus+ programme. He has been editor-in-chief of the news section of Meteored, the tempo.pt team, since January 2018.
Since he was a little boy, he has a passion for nature, in particular for everything that involves Geography, weather and climate. From the beach and the oceans, to the sky and the mountains, from the smell of plants and trees to the contemplation of the amazing beauty of thunderstorms and volcanoes.
News by Alfredo Graça
An ambitious road plan has been implemented in Norway. This will allow drivers to cross the country more quickly. Find out all the details here!
Space scientists have captured what appears to be the famous "Eye of Sauron" in the distant universe. With this recent discovery, they believe they have solved a decade-long cosmic mystery.
Using computer simulations, scientists from Monash University, Australia, and scientific institutions in the USA conclude in a new study that the Ishtar Terra plateaus on Venus were formed through processes similar to those on Earth.
Hoag's Object is a strange and rare ring galaxy located 600 million light-years away from Earth. It was discovered in 1950 by astronomer Arthur A. Hoag. After all, what makes this celestial object so peculiar?
After recording the first -50 °C in its climate history in 2022, Greenland's Summit Camp station has cooled markedly in recent days and surpassed Siberia by recording the lowest temperature this winter so far in the Northern Hemisphere!
The torrential rains of recent days, possibly combined with a glacial lake outburst flood, caused several deaths, landslides and significant material damage, including the destruction of the Chungthang dam.
A recent study looked at the domestication of carrots, the history of their cultivation and the genetics of carotenoids at a molecular level, which made it possible to discover the origin of orange carrots. What made them this way?