The passage of front system and the trough that affected the country in recent days, have not only left rain, they have also caused the temperatures to drop. temperatures.
He Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) warned in his morning report this Monday and confirmed to Diario Libre that the “cold” will continue for the next three days and that, by the middle of this week, a high pressure system in the territory.
Sabana Quéliz, in La Vega with 11 º C
In the early hours of this Monday morning the low temperatures in several zoneslike 18 º C in Monción or 17 º C in Jarabacoa.
In La Vega, Sabana Quéliz recorded 11 º C and Constanza 12 º C.
Others zones like El Factor, in MarÃa Trinidad Sánchez, woke up this Monday with 23 º C; in the Matas de Santa Cruz 21 º C and 24 º C in Santo Domingo.
Indomet explained that this is due to the passage of front system of the last few days and that will cause some temperatures fresher and the establishment of a high pressure system in the middle of this week.
This, combined with an air mass of reduced humidity, “will cause rainfall to decrease significantly over the national territory,” he stated.
The temperatures lower
Between January 6 and 7, 2024, the temperature in New Valley It fell to -10 º C, considering it the lowest in the last two decades. According to data and images provided by the National Park administrator New ValleyJulio César de los Santos, the minimum of -10 °C was recorded at 6:50 in the morning.
De los Santos explained at the time to Diario Libre that that night the temperature had been descending, since at 9:37 at night it was at 0 °C and at 12:09 in the morning at -3 °C.
He argued that this minimum of -10 °C represents the temperature lowest recorded in New Valley at least in the last two decades.
“I’m 13 years old New Valley and it is the first time (in those years) that a temperature so, it is the temperature lowest in several decades,” he said.
He added that prior to these casualties temperatures a minimum of -9 °C was recorded in February 2015; -8.6 °C in 2023 and -6 °C in 2005.
“There is a supposed record of -13 C in the 1980s, but there is no credible photographic evidence, so it only remains as a comment. In February 2015 there was a record of -9 ° C of which there are images and videos, but this today is something else,” he said.
