Santo Domingo.-The director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), Gloria Ceballosreported that the cloud fields associated with the Hurricane Melissa They will be generating rain in the country, especially in the southeast, until next Wednesday.
The official explained that, with the best structured atmospheric phenomenon in the Caribbean Seamoving towards the northwest, parallel to the peninsula of Haiti, its cloud field will continue to affect the country, with a slow movement.
«It has moved at two kilometers per hour, it even stopped at practically zero kilometers per hour. Until Wednesday, the cloud field associated with that system will affect the national territory,” explained Ceballos.
“It is not that we are going to be directly affected by the system, because it is already moving towards the west-northwest, but that the cloud field associated with it will continue to have an impact,” he clarified.
The head of the Institute of Meteorology indicated that there will be more compact cloudiness, as the atmospheric phenomenon moves further west. He specified that it would affect Jamaica as a major hurricane (category 3) and that, later, will rise to the eastern part of Cuba.
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It being 2:00 in the afternoon yesterday, the National Hurricane Center Miamiissued alerts about the newly formed Hurricane Melissa, located at that time 145 miles southeast of Jamaica.
Opening of commerce
He Emergency Operations Center (EOC) announced that, despite the level of red alert in which the provinces of Santo Domingo, National District, San Pedro de Macorís and La Romanaallows the opening of shops, so that the population can be supplied in these areas.
The COE asked the population that, if it is not necessary to travel along the main roads of these provinces, they should remain in safe places, either in their homes or in official shelters.
The entity reminded operators of fragile, small and medium-sized vessels to remain in port due to abnormal wind and waves, as well as heavy downpours, thunderstorms and reduced visibility.
«The teteos»
The Emergency Operations Center (COE) reiterated to citizens the call to refrain from holding improvised parties in the streets, known as “tits«, because of the danger it represents for their lives, in the midst of the rains caused by the hurricane Melissa.
The director of the COE, Juan Manuel Mendezpointed out that the alert level in which the country is located is for the population to remain in their homes or shelters and pay attention to the information issued by the relief institutions.
“Interior and Police and the Ministry of Defense are working on these issues, so that people do not hold these types of meetings that do not benefit them or the country,” Méndez explained during a press conference yesterday at noon.
“In the midst of a situation like this, in which it is raining heavily, regrettable situations can occur,” he warned.
The Caasd
The Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd) reported that, for three days, it has deployed dozens of brigades and technical teams that work preventively and proactively to clean and sanitize ravines in the province, as part of the mitigation actions for Hurricane Melissa.
