Which regions will be affected by rain this week?

During this week, the passage of a new Frontal system has hit with intense precipitation to different areas located in the South of the country.

In fact, the National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred) declared Red alert for the communes of Lanco, Panguipulli, Mariquina and Valdivia (in the Los Ríos region) due to the threat of overflow. The latter, due to the increase in flow in the Leufucade River and the Cruces River.

Although the southern regions of Chile have not yet recovered from the rains left by the current frontal system, a new front associated with a atmospheric river It will approach in the coming days in some areas of the country.

In which regions will it rain during the week?

According to the Metored forecast, the main low pressure of a frontal system will reach Patagonia on Saturday, June 29 and will move rapidly during the early hours of the morning. sunday 30 in the Lakes and Rivers regions.

In detail, heavy rainfall is expected in a short period of time for the region of The Araucanía, during the same day next Sunday. It is even expected that in the surroundings of Pucon the accumulated rains for the morning of Monday July 1st will be between 35 to 55 mm.

Thus, the rains caused by this new frontal system They could reach up to the Ñuble region for the first days of next week.

Likewise, it is expected that the Biobío region feels the advance of the frontal system, however, in this section closest to the south-central Chile, the precipitations would be of lower intensity.

Will there be precipitation in the central-northern regions of Chile?

According to the ECMWF model of the Meteored forecast, during the first week of July no precipitation is expected for the regions of Valparaíso, Metropolitana and O’Higgins.

A similar situation is what will be experienced by the Maule regionwhere July would also start drier and without rain.