Santo Domingo, RD. – The emergency operations center (COE) has put six provinces on green alert before possible floods of rivers, streams and ravines due to rain forecasts for a Vaguada.
Santiago Rodríguez, Dajabón, La Vega, Elías Piña, San Juan and Santiago are the provinces that will remain under alert.
The COE informs that, according to the weather newsletter today of the National Institute of Meteorology (INDOMET), In the morning hours a sunny environment will prevail with few rainfall throughout the national geography.
In the afternoon, the atmospheric pattern will be humid and unstable about our forecast area, product of the interaction of a trough with local effects (daytime and orographic warming) and the warm wind of the east/southeast.
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These factors will contribute to the development of important cloudiness, with the occurrence of strong downpours, thunderstorms and wind bursts, mainly in localities of the provinces: El Seibo, Hato Mayor, Monte Plata, Sánchez Ramírez, Duarte, Samaná, Espaillat, La Vega, Monsignor Nouel, Azu Bahoruco
By virtue of the foregoing and the provisions of article 2, Chapter 1, of Law 147-02 on Risk Management, the Emergency Operations Center issues green alert.
