In Manaus, rain volume for the month of February exceeds the expected, says Inmet

Priscilla Peixoto – From Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – In Manaus, the volume of rainfall already exceeds by 5% the expected for the month of February. The information is from the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet). According to the institute, for this period 2023, the expected average was 297 millimeters of rain, but until the morning of Monday, 20, were 303 millimeters counted by Inmet.

The rainy scenario also exceeded the expected for the same time of year, in 2022, when 315 millimeters were recorded, above the 289 millimeters expected for the second month of the year. According to Inmet, only in the last 24 hours, fell 39 millimeters of rain in the Amazon capital and the forecast is for more rain for this Tuesday, 21, of Carnival.

So far, seven occurrences due to the successive rains have been registered by the Civil Defense. In addition, a landslide, which affected six residences in the Cidade de Deus neighborhood, in the North Zone of Manaus. There were no deaths.

On Sunday, 19, the Federal Institute of Amazonas (Ifam), located in the city center, was also flooded by rainwater. Despite the flooding in dependencies such as the kitchen and the cafeteria, the classrooms and the laboratory were not affected, according to Ifam.

On the last day 16, several stores in downtown Manaus were flooded. The rainwater also affected the work of the Regional Labor Court of the 11th Region (TRT-11), in the South Zone of the capital. The accumulation of water caused the ceiling of the offices on the 6th and 7th floor of the building to fall.

Rainy Carnival

Inmet indicates rainy weather for almost the whole country. Carnival revelers, especially in the Southeast (especially in São Paulo), will face more intense storms. São Paulo is on an orange alert from Inmet because of the risks caused by the rains.

Rain is also falling in places like the mountains and metropolitan areas of Rio de Janeiro, the south and southeast of Minas Gerais, the country’s southern region, Brasilia and Salvador. In an interview for Agência Brasil, Inmet meteorologist Dayse Suellen Moraes explains the reason for the rain and cold during the Carnival season in Brazil:

“There is a system that has formed between Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay that is favoring the rains. There is also an atmospheric horse that formed in Argentina and also in the ocean [Atlantic] and this favored some more intense precipitation in the Southeast and Midwest. The humidity and heat cause these instabilities a little stronger, because it is the summer season (…) in the North and also part of the Northeast, there is the intertropical convergence zone, which is a system that operates in this period marked by the intensity and instability of the rains in these locations”m explains the meteorologist.

(*) With information from the press office