Due to the strong rains that have been registered in the Dominican territory during this week, the number of communities cut off increased to 33 and the affected homes to 3,769.
According to this Wednesday’s report from the Emergency Operations Center (COE), 18,845 people were displaced after the floods generated after the downpours. One rescued person is also reported.
Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the COE, called on people in the provinces low alert not to be careless, because the rains They will continue for the rest of the week.
“We ask the high-risk population in the provinces We are warned not to be careless, because we have, especially that part of the north of the country, all soils are saturated, so any precipitation that occurs would cause situations of river flooding,” Méndez indicated.
How much water fell in Puerto Plata?
It is recalled that the province Puerto Plata was the most affected by the floods generated by the incidence of a cold front and a trough.
A report from the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) points out that from Friday, December 20 to Tuesday, December 24, the area of ​​the country where the most accumulated of water recorded was in Puerto Plata (airport area), where 374.8 millimeters of rains.
That amount of water recorded in Puerto Plata equals 14.7 inches of water. Remember that 1 inch of water is equal to 25.4 millimeters, so 18 inches is 457.2 millimeters.
In Villa Isabela, also in the province Puerto Platain those five days a cumulative average of 249.2 millimeters of rains. Then followed the El Factor municipality, in the MarÃa Trinidad Sánchez province, with 236.7 millimeters.
Alerts
A total of 11 provinces are found under alertof which six are in yellow and five in green.
In yellow are: Sisters Mirabal, Espaillat, MarÃa Trinidad Sánchez, Duarte, Samaná and Puerto Plata.
In green are: Valverde, La Vega, Sánchez RamÃrez, Monte Plata and Santiago RodrÃguez.
Rains will continue
The rains will continue this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on various provinces of the Dominican territory due to the effects of a cold front in the process of disintegration and the northeast wind, according to the forecasts.
“For today, Christmas Day, do not put away your umbrella, as they are expected rains due to a cold front in the process of disintegration and its cloud fields will be blown by the northeast wind, mainly affecting the Atlantic coast during the morning; the rest of the country will experience skies with scattered clouds and sun,” indicated the report from the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet).
In the afternoon cloudiness will increase in some sectors with showers or downpours moderate, accompanied by isolated thunderstorms and possible gusts of wind in provinces such as: San Pedro de MacorÃs, MarÃa Trinidad Sánchez, Espaillat, Puerto PlataGreater Santo Domingo, San Cristóbal, Monseñor Nouel, La Vega, among others. The temperatures They will remain cool, especially in mountainous areas and their valleys, and slightly warm in coastal areas.
While the National District will have few clouds and sunny. cloudy afternoon, downpours and thunderstorms.
