Three new tropical waves will arrive in Venezuela in the coming days and one of them is already very close to the eastern regions of the country, according to forecasts by the State Meteorological Agency.
The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of Venezuela (Inameh) published this Tuesday a graph specifying the location of tropical waves numbers 43, 44 and 45: the first of them was very close to the country, with a travel speed of 27 kilometers per hour; the next is in the Tropical Central Atlantic, at 18 kilometers per hour; and the last one, west of Cape Verde, Africa, with 18 kilometers per hour.
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Up to 35 tropical waves have reached Venezuela this season. The penultimate of them, the 41st, ended up becoming Hurricane Julia on its way to Colombia and Central America.
As it passed through Venezuela, it caused showers with electric shocks and blizzards, which affected a third of the nation’s 335 municipalities, according to a state balance.
A tropical wave is classified as “a channel of low pressure” that is born in Africa and that moves from west to east through the Atlantic Ocean, crossing through the Caribbean and Central America, until exiting through the Pacific, he explains to the voice of america Wilder Domínguez León, director of Meteorology and Oceanography of the National Organization for Rescue and Maritime Safety of the Aquatic Spaces of Venezuela (ONSA).
Tropical waves usually produce “significant showers and electrical storm activities” in their path, he says. They can develop winds of 50 kilometers per hour.
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If there are favorable conditions for it, such as high temperatures and “little shear wind at height”, it can feed on the low pressure and begin to rotate counterclockwise, the meteorology specialist specifies. Thus, a wave can evolve into a tropical disturbance, tropical storm or hurricane, in any of its five categories.
Domínguez León stresses that tropical wave 43 was already at 4 in the afternoon this Tuesday north of the Essequibo, bordering eastern Venezuela, and is expected to cause “intense to strong” rains in some northern regions in the next 48 hours.
«This tropical wave does not develop cyclonic potential, it will be softer than the last ones. Wave 44 is in the Central Atlantic and wave 45 is in the East, just leaving Africa. No cyclonic development of them is expected. However, we must remain vigilant », he advises.
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*Read the full note at voice of america
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