Santo Domingo.- The downpours will decrease starting this Wednesday in much of the country, but eight provinces remain on “yellow alert” and 16 on green, plus the National District, due to the rain that could indirectly be caused by tropical storm Rafael, plus the remnants of a trough that passed through Dominican territory.
The provinces in yellow are Puerto Plata, Espaillat, Hermanas Mirabal, Duarte, Valverde, Dajabón, Pedernales and Barahona, where rainfall could increase in the next 24 hours, according to the Emergency Operations Center (COE).
Rafael does not pose a direct danger to the Dominican Republic, but its cloud band can cause downpours over provinces such as Barahona, Pedernales, in the south, plus Dajabón, in the west of the country.
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As its center continues to move north, cloudiness will decrease in the provinces located in the southwest of the country, reported the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet).
In the current hurricane season in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, 17 named storms have formed, including tropical storms and hurricanes.
For this season, which began on June 1 and ends on June 30, the formation of between 17 and 25 named storms was forecast, of which thirteen would be hurricanes.
