The representative of the National Meteorological Service (SMN), Rodolfo Merlino, spoke about the current alert for Neuquén and Río Negro. The extra tropical cyclone predicted in Chile will have an impact on weather conditions in the region. This Thursday there will be a increase in temperature in the Valleys area.
Listen to Rodolfo Merlino, from the National Meteorological Service on RÍO NEGRO RADIO:
This Wednesday the maximum temperature for the Alto Valle It is 14 degrees Celsiuss. For tomorrow, a abrupt increase since it would reach 20°Cas reported by the Interjurisdictional Authority of the Basins (AIC).
«The passage of a frontal system causes a rise in temperature with rains in the mountains and melting snow,” the AIC reported.
Source: AIC
Rain alert in Neuquén and Río Negro
This Wednesday, an alert is in effect in much of the region. “There is red alert for the mountain region, what is Alto Valle does not cover, there may be some precipitation but without generating complications. There is a yellow alert but in the low areas of Neuquén (plateaus from the center to the west) and the Rio Negro mountain range from Bariloche to El Bolsón,” explained Rodolfo Merlino of the SMN:
He specified that the orange alert for today is in the lake region, from San Martín de los Andes to Villa La Angostura, and from San Martín to Mendoza, red alert “due to abundant water fall”, with a cumulative of 70 to 90 millimeters.
«A low pressure center dominates in the South Pacific that causes there to be a cyclone where the cloudiness generated by the humidity of the Pacific Ocean accumulates but towards the northand it is pushing it towards the Cordillera on the Chilean side and something is also happening towards our country as well,” Merlino explained.
He noted that in the area there was a series of temperatures for “five years well above normal” somewhat due to global warming and because there was por three years an influence of La Niña which caused greater drought “and dry soils remain warmer longer.”
Regarding winter, he said that it is expected in the region “for the next three months that there will be precipitation a little above normal and temperatures also lower than normal.”
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