HOLY SUNDAY.– The Emergency Operations Center (COE) expanded the provinces on green alert to six, due to a tropical wave which will be generating heavy downpours during the afternoon and early evening.
The provinces on alert are Santo Domingo, National District, San Pedro de Macorís, San Cristóbal, Monte Plata and San José de Ocoa.
In this sense, people are recommended to refrain from crossing rivers, streams and ravines that have high volumes of water in the provinces under alert.
Tomorrow Saturdayalthough the axis of the tropical wave will have left the forecast area, showers will continue due to the moisture left behind and local effects.
on sundaydespite humidity will begin to gradually reduce, the existing one will join a trough of medium and high levels of the troposphere to favor cloudy afternoon and early evening hours followed by locally strong downpours, thunderstorms and gusts of wind, especially towards towns in the northwest, north, southwest, the border area and the Central Mountain Range, as in provinces: Samaná, La Romana, San Pedro de Macorís, María Trinidad Sánchez, Duarte, La Vega, Santiago, Monseñor Nouel, San Juan, Elías Pina and Dajabón.
National District: Partly cloudy to cloudy with showers, thunderstorms and gusts of wind.
Santo Domingo this: cloudy from morning hours with showers, thunderstorms and gusts of wind.
Santo Domingo North: Partly cloudy to cloudy with showers, thunderstorms and gusts of wind.
Santo Domingo West: cloudy since midday with showers, thunderstorms and gusts of wind.
