Ang subtropical stormshe who has been affecting the coastal area of ​​Uruguay since early Tuesday morning has already driven the death of a person, in addition to damage in some cities and power outages to more than 20,000 homes. Classes at Rocha and Maldonado were suspended.

The fatal victim was a 23 year old resident of Paso de la Arena, a neighborhood in Montevideo. According to local authorities, he died due to a tree falling on his house. At the time of the incident, he was not alone. However, the person with him was not hurt.

In addition, they pointed out that firefighters had to evacuate a woman and three minors after the roof of their home in Parque del Plata, Canelones exploded.

The bad weather was also mimicked off the coast of Buenos Aires, where the National Meteorological Service released a orange alert and another yellow until 12 at night because of the gusts of wind that, they warned, would reach 95 kilometers per hour.

The first of them, and more dangerous, affects areas ofat Pinamar, Villa Gesell, Partido de la Costa, Castelli, Lezama, Punta Indio, Chascomús at Dolores. The second covers from the north of Greater Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata and Miramar. Eventually, local authorities decided to suspend the classes as a preventive measure.

Uruguay has the same warnings, which caused the storm serious injury in various parts of the territory: there were exploded roofs, fallen trees, and self-evacuations as a result of heavy rain and winds of up to 100 kilometers per hour, most of which were recorded from seven o’clock of the morning.

There was also a recording sea ​​foam “invasion”, a phenomenon caused by intense waves. That foam covered some roads and complex access to coastal buildings.

Punta del Este is one of the most affected cities, with gusts of 98 km/h. In Atlántida, for its part, there is 87 km/h, while in the regions of Rocha and San José they reach 81 km/h. In Montevideo the wind reaches 72 kilometers per hour.

Also, 23,000 UTE clients suffered power outage in their homes, as indicated by the public body on its official website. In this sense, Maldonado is the department most affected with 9,283 without electricity, followed by Rocha with 6,320 and Canelones with 4,200.

How is the weather?

The National Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) has issued a yellow alert for strong tropical storms and two orange alerts who will govern, in principle, until 6:30 pm this Tuesday.

However, experts confirmed that the worst moment of the storm will occur in the afternoon and will last until 8:30 p.m.

The coastal area of ​​Buenos Aires is also under another weather alert for strong gusts of wind and meteorologists warn that the storm could reach Brazil in the form of a hurricane.

“The subtropical storm is over the Atlantic Ocean and touches the shores in its outermost part, with waves and mist, but it will continue to move northward and there will be warmer currents from Brazil, helping this storm to will continue to change and it will start to become more tropical or stormy, ”SMN meteorologist Cindy Fernández told the Télam agency.

Predicted by the National Meteorological Institute of Brazil red alertwhich means “serious danger”, for that country’s southern coast, which includes the states of Rio Grande do Sur and Santa Catarina.

“The tropical storm, which is the equivalent of a hurricane, will hit the coast of Brazil tonight and tomorrow, as well as the east coast of Uruguay, where heavy rain and winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour are expected,” he said. by Fernández, then add that they have. this typhoon has already been named, Yakecán, which means “sound of the sky” in Tupi-Guarani.

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