The Early Warning System of Medellín and the Valle de Aburrá (Siata) reported this Friday followingnoon that bonnie storm, that has some coastal municipalities in Antioquia and islands such as San Andrés on alert, will have no repercussions in the metropolitan area.
However, according to engineer Julián Sepúlveda Berrío, head of Siata Meteorology, monitoring of easterly wave activity should be maintained and the hurricane season that lands on the Atlantic.
Storm Bonnie, in Sepúlveda’s words, It has not been the cause of the rains in the Aburrá Valley. The heavy rainfall that has been recorded in the region has been product of climate variability and the effects of the La Niña phenomenon.
This does not exempt that for this Saturday and Sunday humidity variations will be recordedin addition to an entry of “dry air mass” for the holiday Monday in the ten municipalities of the metropolitan territory.
Despite this, tropical waves and changes in southerly winds might increase the probability of precipitation in the north of the countryaccording to Sepulveda. “If we look at the historical data, there is a probability of the occurrence of category 1 or greater hurricanes over the Caribbean for the month of July and the remainder of the season.”
It should be remembered that the winds caused by this natural phenomenon They can travel at a speed between 63 and 118 kilometers per hour.accompanied by precipitation in its trajectory.
