The
National Meteorological Service (SMN)
issued
orange and yellow alerts
for strong storms, wind and extreme temperatures for this Thursday in the province of Buenos Aires and other areas of the country.
According to the latest official report from that organization, published on Wednesday afternoon, the
orange
level warning reaches the
provinces of Córdoba, San Luis and La Rioj
a.
“The area will be affected by storms, some locally strong or severe.
"They will be accompanied by occasional hail and strong electrical activity," the report anticipates.
In the first of those provinces, the orange alert applies for the afternoon in Juárez Celman and the lower area of Río Cuarto, where "there may be
gusts that could reach 90 km/h
and abundant falls of water in short periods," in addition to
accumulated precipitation
values between 50 and 80 mm
.
In the rest of the Córdoba territory, as well as in the southwest of
Santa Fe
, the alert level is yellow.
In the north of
San Luis
, also with an orange alert, abundant rainfall is expected in short periods, with values between 50 and 70 mm during the afternoon and night.
The warning includes the low areas of Ayacucho, Chacabuco, Junín and Libertador General San Martín.
The same forecast exists for the southeastern sector of La Rioja.
The map published by the SMN shows the areas of the country reached by the orange and yellow alerts.
In these two provinces there is also a yellow alert for storms and winds, as is, for example,
Mendoza , where a
yellow level warning for extreme temperatures
was also included
, with a “mild to moderate effect on health.”
On the other hand,
Catamarca
is affected by a yellow warning for storms, as is a large part of the
province of Buenos Aires
, removing the AMBA, while in almost the entire province of
Chubut
, with the exception of the eastern part, it is the same. color, but due to winds “with speeds between 40 and 60 km/h, and gusts that can exceed 90 km/h.”
The
Malvinas Islands
, meanwhile, are under a yellow alert for rain, some locally heavy, with accumulated precipitation values between 10 and 30 mm, which may be exceeded from time to time.
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