On the afternoon of Sunday, January 1, a squall affected the neighborhoods of Peñarol, Sayago and Prado. It blew up roofs and knocked trees over streets, vehicles, houses and power lines. The director of Meteorological Services of the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet), Natali Bentancor, he classified the event as “microdescending”.
Municipality G staff began this Monday morning to remove the branches and fallen trees.
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Municipality staff G cut part of a tree affected by the storm
Bentancor said that it was a “micro-descendant” because it was in some neighborhoods of Montevideo and not in the entire capital. At a press conference, he stressed that “There were already storm forecasts the previous days” and that the institute issued a yellow alert on the same Sunday.
When asked if a similar event can be repeated in the summer season, Bentancor said that “What happens with this type of storm is that they are very punctual.” “They are generated in very short periods of time and it is in the meteorological surveillance that one detects them,” he added.
Therefore, he pointed out the importance of people consulting the information that Inumet shares.
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The trunk of a fresco fallen on the power lines and the roof of a house
“The following days we are anticipating some precipitation as has been happening today,” said this Monday. By Tuesday, she maintained that “There is a very low probability of a storm in the center of the country and part of the east, very punctual, very isolated.”
Bentancor said that the information they received was that “Roofs were blown up, trees fell.” Several images of the storm and its consequences were shared on social networks.
Photos and videos of the squall
One of the videos was uploaded by the account @MatiMederosURU and shows the “moment of the intense gusts of wind in Sayago” that caused “the fall of many trees and power lines.”
Moment of the intense gusts of wind in Sayago, Montevideo, Uruguay, during the afternoon today, causing the fall of many trees and power lines
Video sent by Claudia Denegri pic.twitter.com/xhd1GjsBcy— Mati Mederos (@MatiMederosURU) January 1, 2023
The same user shared four other images as well. show “Quantity of trees down, power lines down, roofs blown up and damage to some houses.”
Many photos and videos of the damage in Sayago, Montevideo, Uruguay continue to arrive
Trees down in numbers, power lines down, roofs blown off and damage to some houses
The good news is that no one was injured.
Photos via Mariano Bruschi pic.twitter.com/3jglyfDt6g— Mati Mederos (@MatiMederosURU) January 1, 2023
