After starting the year with an overwhelming heat, and maximum of 38 degrees, relief came to the climate of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA). A series of storms were recorded in the early morning; However, an alert for floods of the Río de la Plata was sent.
Due to estimates of the Naval Hydrography Service Granting Centerthe Río de la Plata will register in the next few hours a flood greater than 1.10 meters of normal values.
Alerts for floods of the Río de la Plata
He Ministry of Defense alerted the residents of the area of the Puerto de la Plata, Puerto de Buenos Aires and San Fernando They are attentive. Indications were sent from Tuesday night when it was known that it would be a night storm.
“The Naval Hydrography Service Granting Center, under the Ministry of Defense, reports that the Río de la Plata Interior was found during the early hours of Wednesday, February 5, one meter ten centimeters on the values indicated in the tides tables”
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5 Feb#Alertas For today:
Early Extreme: #heat
High to extreme effect on health
Moderate to high effect on health
Mild to moderate health effect#Storm
Heavy rains
60-100 mm with bursts ≥ 80 km/h
10-60 mm with bursts ≥ 70 km/h
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Grillings of the Río de la Plata: what are the affected cities
For this situation, the cities of Ensenada, Berisso and the coastal towns of the City of Buenos Aires. The organism’s website indicated that the port of La Plata and Buenos Aires will reach a maximum level of 2.10 meters and San Fernando would reach 2.30 meters.
He National Meteorological Service (SMN) issued a weather alert for heavy rains and thunderstorms in the southern region of Córdoba and Santa Fe, next to the north of Buenos Aires, which began to feel in CABA and surroundings from 5.
The estimates indicated The drop of up to 100mm of water according to the orange alert emitted by the body, together with a potential hail.
Climate: How time will continue in the AMBA
The area will be affected by heavy rains and storms, some locally strong. They will be accompanied by bursts that could reach 80 km/h, hail, strong electrical activity and especially abundant water fall in short periods. Accumulated precipitation values between 60 and 90 mm are foreseen, being able to be overcome in a timely manner, “said the SMN.
For this Wednesdaythe rains and storms will be the common denominator of the day in the city and the Greater Buenos Aires, with temperatures that will range between 22 and 25 degrees, according to the SMN.
Source: Ambito

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