The departmental head of Paysandu attacked him Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) and assured that of all the times the institute warned about a storm, generally nothing happens; These statements come after last Tuesday in a city of that department a “micro blowout“.
“The orange alert was on, it hit the mark in the sense that there were going to be storms,” explained the mayor. Nicolas Oliverain dialogue with the Primera Mañana program on radio El Espectador regarding the “micro blowout” that took place in the city of Porvenir, in Paysandu, this Tuesday.
However, he warned that many times the alerts they do not become one storm. “I’m not going to tell you how many alerts we have per month but there are a few, and most of the time nothing happens, fortunately,” Olivera remarked. “If I throw 30 warnings per month, I’m going to hit someone, it’s clear,” said the mayor.
“A few days ago we had several days of alerts that it didn’t rain, there was no wind to even fly a kite. So it seems to me that we have to enter into a process of fine tuning or greater precision with the forecasts. It’s not good that we miss more than we hit,” Olivera explained.
In that sense, the mayor recalled that every time an alert is published the mayor you have to have a special preparation of their teams. However, he admitted that “it is better to be safe than sorry.”
A controversy that adds to another previous one
Last year in mid-December, Uruguay suffered a storm that left two dead and 60,000 people affected. Faced with this, Inumet maintained that the alerts were sufficient for the population to take the possible precautions to avoid tragedies; however, nationalist senator Sebastian Da Silva He criticized the institution for not being “emphatic” enough with the alerts.
“We had different warnings announced during the course of the week, three warnings. Two warning of the potential for severity that could occur on Sunday starting in the early hours of the morning, and that it began precisely in the southwest,” said the director of Inumet.
Meanwhile, he assured that an alert was also issued at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, that is, four hours before the event. Although he admitted that gusts of wind cannot be predicted, he explained that “the formation of these storms and the intensity they could have can be done.” An event that occurred.
For his part, the nationalist senator criticized the Inumet al establishes that the alerts were not “emphatic” enough regarding a phenomenon that, according to the politician, “was foreseeable. “Inumet You have to be aware that you have to be more emphatic. We all saw what happened Buenos Aires. That storm can take at most an hour to cross the Silver river“said the senator, referring to the tragedy that left 13 dead in the Argentine city of White Bay.
“Since there is a world of silver dedicated to weather forecast“What we are proposing is first realism, description, generating awareness about what can generate everything that we are going to experience this summer,” added Da Silva, who suggested that “in this summer it is good that when the alerts go from orange to probably pink or red, as was what should have happened, people are notified.”
Source: Ambito
