The Chile’s Meteorological Directorate (DMC) published an alert and an alarm for the rain that will fall in Santiago and the RMlike other nearby towns.
This front system that began this Thursday night and already exceeded 20 millimeters of water fall in many areasas reported by the weather stations recorded by the DMC.
According to the DMC alarm, Intense rainfall will fall in a short period of time, which will vary between 40 mm. and 50mm. of rain. These will be concentrated during the morning of this Friday and the first hour of the afternoon.
However, as a whole, it is expected that Rainfall can exceed 60 mm. of water in the RM and some areas of the capital during this day.
Rain in Santiago could exceed 60 mm. this Friday
He Greater Santiagothe metropolitan area that includes the residential communes that border the commune of downtown Santiago, is located between the area of Valley and the Precordillera of the RM.
This area, this Friday, You will receive between 40 and 50 millimeters of rainwater in just a few hours. Furthermore, while in Valley they wait, throughout the day, between 50 and 60mm. of rain, for the Foothillswhere the communes with the highest height are like Puente Alto, La Florida, Peñalolén, Las Condes, La Reina, among others, up to 65 mm is expected. of water.
Furthermore, added to this is that Greater Santiago will be surrounded by possible electrical storms, which will form from the Coastal Mountain Range to the Valley metropolitan.
As meteorologist Gonzalo Espinoza mentions, “the frontal system that is affecting the central-southern area of our country with great intensity It will continue today with heavy rainfall and towards the early evening it should begin to subside. and reduce the intensity to only have showers in the morning.
Likewise, Espinoza comments that «The showers for the mountain and foothill areas could continue throughout the day Saturday (…) and storms and wind from the north, and snowfall for the foothills area until Sunday«.
