Tropical wave over the eastern portion of the country, moving rapidly to the west, it interacts with a trough in height to the northwest of the country, both systems will induce cloud concentrations to continue producing clouds accompanied by locally moderate to heavy downpours with thunderstorms and wind gusts in different locations in the northeast, southeast, Caribbean coast, Central Cordillera and the border area.
For tomorrow Saturday, the tropical wave will have left our forecast area, however, it will leave humidity that together with the wind from the east/northeast will favor clouds so that during the course of the afternoon there will be clouds accompanied by very scattered local downpours or showers in the afternoon in different localities of the country.
Next Sunday, the approach of another tropical wave is forecast, which will bring African dust, which will maintain drier conditions and hot temperatures, in addition to a hazy and grayish sky, the downpours that may occur will be caused by local effects and wind from the east / southeast to the northeast, southeast and Central Cordillera.
ONAMET, maintains the weather ALERT levels for 5 provinces, for possible flash floods, flooding of rivers, streams and creeks, as well as landslides.
National District: Partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms.
Santo Domingo North: Increasing clouds with showers and thunderstorms.
West Santo Domingo: Partly cloudy to cloudy at times with showers and thunderstorms.
Santo Domingo East: Cloudy developments with showers and thunderstorms.
Greater Santo Domingo: Maximum temperature between 29ºC and 32ºC, minimum between 22ºC and 24ºC.
Summary
Tropical wave over the eastern part of the country…Vaguada over the northwest of the territory… 5 provinces remain on weather alert.
Today
Medium cloudy to cloudy at times with locally moderate to heavy downpours, thunderstorms and wind gusts over the northeast, southeast, Caribbean coast, Central Cordillera and the border area.
Saturday
Scattered to partly cloudy at times with showers, thunderstorms and wind gusts over the northern regions, northeast, Central Cibao, Caribbean Coastal coast and the Central Cordillera.
Santo Domingo and its municipalities: Scattered to medium clouds with showers and thundershowers.
National District: Occasional cloudiness with local showers and isolated thundershowers, especially in the afternoon.
Sunday
Scattered to partly cloudy at times with isolated showers towards the northeast, southeast and the Central Cordillera.
Santo Domingo and its municipalities: Partly cloudy at times with isolated showers and warm temperatures.
National District: Scattered clouds and sunshine during the day with distant showers and a warm atmosphere.