SANTO DOMINGO. - Tropical Storm Melissa continues to generate heavy rainfall in some regions of the country, causing the Emergency Operations Center (COE) to increase the number of provinces under yellow alert to 10, including the National District.
"The COE maintains 4 provinces on red alert, increases to 10 and the National District on yellow alert and 9 on green alert, due to the continued movement of cloud fields generating moderate to heavy downpours at times, accompanied by thunderstorms and gusts of wind," the agency published last night, October 27, through its X account.
Nine provinces remain in green, after stating that the rains are a result of the impact of a trough at different levels of the troposphere and the cloud remnants associated with the frontal system.
in red : Barahona, Pedernales, Independencia, Bahoruco.
Meanwhile, the following are in yellow: San José de Ocoa, Elías Piña, Dajabón, Azúa, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, San Cristóbal, Peravia, Monte Plata, San Juan and Monte Cristi.
And in green: Monseñor Nouel, San Pedro de Macorís, Duarte, La Romana, Hato Mayor, La Altagracia, El Seibo, Santiago Rodríguez and Samaná.
The COE recommended that people refrain from crossing rivers, streams and ravines that have high volumes of water in the provinces under alert.
Up to 200 millimeters of rain are expected in the southwest region
The director of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology ( Indomet ), Gloria Ceballos rain are still expected in the provinces of the southwest region due to the large cloud field that accompanies Hurricane Melissa.
"That's why you see us insisting that the rains haven't stopped yet; because the accumulated rainfall that continues to be recorded in these days will be precisely due to cloud fields associated with that hurricane . If you look at the satellite image, you can see that as it moved westward—I say moved because now it has turned northwest—that cloud cover that is there, below us, is rising, and that's why the southwestern provinces remain on red alert ," Ceballos explained during his weekly interview with the press.
Sources: El Día/Listín Diario.
