The Government of the Canary Islands, through the Dirección General de Seguridad y Emergencias, declares the maximum alert for rain in the Canary Islands from September 24 at 00:00.
This decision is made taking into account the information available and in application of the Plan Específico de Emergencias de Canarias por Riesgos de Fenómenos Meteorológicos Adversos (PEFMA) des Canary IslandsAnd.
It is observed: A large pressure area located approximately a Southwest of the Canary Islands, producing widespread showers and thunderstorms. Conditions are expected to turn into depression tropical. The riots will affect the western (south-west) area of the Autonomous Community Canary Islands from Saturday, spread over the whole weekend archipelago.
Widespread precipitation, many in the form of showers. They are expected to be of moderate intensity without excluding local strong and/or very strong. Accumulated precipitation equal to or greater than 60 – 100 mm / 24 hours.
He didn’t rule out storms. Showers or showers: precipitation, often copious and short-lived, originating from convection clouds**, characterized by sudden onsets and endings and large and rapid changes in intensity. (**In meteorology, the convective cloud is a type of cloud that develops by convection in the Earth’s atmosphere after intense heating of the ground by solar radiation and/or in the presence of colder air masses at high altitude.)
The population is asked to follow the self-protection advice of the Directorate-General for Security and Emergencies.
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