Santo Domingo.-The Emergency Operations Center (COE) increased the provinces in red alertwhile maintaining 23 and the National District on yellow alert and five on green, because the rains will continue in a large part of the country due to the influence of a trough and tropical wave to the south of the Caribbean Sea.
He COE He indicated that the Duarte provinces (northeast), especially Bajo Yuna and Barahona (southwest), are under red alert.
While yellow follows Puerto Plata, Peravia, María Trinidad Sánchez, La Altagracia, Santo Domingo, Hato Mayor, Monseñor Nouel, Espaillat, San Pedro de Macorís, San Cristóbal, La Romana, Bahoruco, Samaná, Azua, San Juan, Distrito Nacional, El Seibo, La Vega, Monte Plata, Santiago, San José de Ocoa, Sánchez Ramírez and Hermanas Mirabal.
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Those that are on green alert are Independencia, Pedernales, Santiago Rodríguez, Elías Piña and Valverde.
For its part, the National Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) reiterated that the downpours are caused by a trough and a tropical disturbance located in the Caribbean Sea, which will cause an increase in cloudiness in towns located on the Caribbean coast, the east , north and center of the country.
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.
Likewise, the agency urged operators of fragile, small and medium-sized vessels that navigate the Atlantic coast to carry out their operations with caution near the coastal perimeter, without venturing out to sea, due to abnormal waves and wind.