The National Meteorological Service stated that there will be “intense electrical activity” in the AMBA. The weather is expected to improve around dusk and no further rain is expected until Sunday.
A intense thunderstormwhich included the fall of hail in several sectors, was recorded this Thursday afternoon in several points of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, where the National Weather Service (SMN) had issued a yellow weather alert.
“The area will be affected by stormssome could be locally strong. They will be accompanied by intense activity electricabundant rainfall in short periods, occasional rainfall hailand mainly with intense gusts of up to 80 km/h,” indicated the yellow alert for the City of Buenos Aires and its surroundings.
The first rainfall In the form of fine hail, they began to fall shortly after 2 p.m. in various points in the west and south of the metropolitan area, although around 3 p.m. the hail was already present in several neighborhoods of the Federal Capital such as Villa Lugano, Villa Devoto and Liniers.
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Mariano Fuchila
“Accumulated precipitation values are estimated between 20 and 40 mmwhich could be exceeded locally,” the notice added. On the social network X, several users shared videos of the hail, such as in La Matanza, General Rodríguez, Moreno, Merlo, Luis Guillón and San Antonio de Padua, the storms and the heavy rains.
Some others affected localities They were Pergamino, Monte Grande, Haedo and Ezeiza, and in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, many images of this phenomenon were published by residents of Monte Castro, Flores, Caballito, among others.
However, from 2:33 p.m. a short-term warning was issued for “severe storms with heavy rainsgusts and occasional hail,” covering the city of Buenos Aires, the suburbs, the Paraná delta and the Entre Ríos islands of Ibicuy. It is estimated that time will heal near dusk and no further rain is expected until Sunday.
Source: Ambito
