Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet) reported that the weather during the Easter weekend will be characterized by reduced rainfall and a hot environment.
He added that very local showers are expected in the afternoon and early hours of the night of this Holy Saturday, due to the drag of the northeast wind.
In this sense, meteorologists Julio Ordóñez and Samira Lorenzo explained that the northeast wind has caused scattered rains or showers in areas of the Atlantic and southeast of the country since early morning.
“The showers have been generated over localities in the provinces of La Altagracia, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, Monte Plata, Samaná, María Trinidad Sánchez, Duarte and nearby areas,” they add.
This afternoon, scattered downpours (with a low probability of thunderstorms and accompanied by gusts of wind) are forecast towards the provinces of Monseñor Nouel, La Vega, Santiago Sur, Azua, San Juan de la Maguana, Elías Piña, San José de Ocoa, San Cristóbal Norte and the mountains of Neiba and Bahoruco.
“The rest of the country will have mostly sunny weather or scattered clouds and hot temperatures,” they point out. The minimum temperatures will be between 21 °C and 23 °C and the maximum between 29 °C and 31 °C.
Easter Sunday will dawn with cool temperatures due to the accelerated wind from the north/northeast. Gusts of wind and less humidity will result from anticyclonic circulation at different levels of the troposphere.
“We only foresee showers in the morning that will be brief or temporary, associated with cloud fields that enter due to the drag of the wind on the Atlantic coast and the southeast,” they indicate.
In the afternoon, towards the central mountain range and points of the southwest, passing showers are forecast. These will dissipate as the night enters, moving to scattered clouds or clear skies, generating favorable conditions for cool temperatures.
Indomet maintains the “meteorological alert” levels for the provinces of Santiago, La Vega, and Monseñor Nouel due to the saturation of soils, flooding of rivers, streams, ravines, urban floods, and possible landslides.
On the Caribbean coast, from Cayo Pisaje to Beata Island (Barahona), operators of fragile, small, and medium-sized boats are recommended to navigate with caution and without moving away from the coastal perimeter due to abnormal waves offshore and normal swell on the rest of the coast.
“On the Atlantic coast, all boats should take precautions due to abnormal waves offshore, which in the afternoon will become dangerous on almost the entire coast,” meteorologists say.