He Emergency Operations Center (EOC) increases 7 provinces and the National District on yellow alert, maintains one on red alert and 14 on green alert due to rains generated by the incidence of a trough and the approach of a tropical wave.
Scattered showers are expected to occur towards the Atlantic coast of the northeast and southeast, being more isolated towards the southern coast.
The COE expects that from midday the rains will intensify as locally moderate to heavy downpours with thunderstorms and gusts of wind.
While at night the rains will be more frequent over provinces on the Caribbean coast, the southeast and northeast.
Alerts
In red alert San José de Ocoa is located, while in yellow alert There is Monte Plata, La Altagracia, Distrito Nacional, San Cristóbal, Peravia, La Romana, San Pedro de Macorís and Santo Domingo.
In green alert There are Monseñor Nouel, Independencia, Puerto Plata, Santiago Rodríguez, Azua, Duarte, Bahoruco, Santiago, Barahona, Valverde, Montecristi, Dajabón, San Juan and Pedernales.
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He urged people to refrain from crossing rivers, streams and ravines that have high volumes of water in the provinces under alert.
Warning
The director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), Gloria Ceballoswarned that the active tropical wave will leave important accumulated rain so he calls for caution because the country has soils saturated by rain recorded in the month of October, including the passage of the Tropical Storm Melissa.
