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The Caribbean region of Colombia does not finish overcoming the passage of Hurricane Iota and Storm Eta, when a new threat looms again over this territory.
The concern now comes because of two tropical waves that have been advancing from the eastern Caribbean Sea towards the country. “One of these, the first, is expected to grow stronger as it crosses the Colombian Caribbean Sea. Right now we have that system could have a 40 percent chance of cyclonic development for the next five days “said Daniel Useche, head of Forecasts and Alerts at Ideam.
In other words, it could become a depression, a tropical storm or a hurricane, depending on the atmospheric conditions that occur.
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The truth is that this situation will generate an increase in rainfall, electrical storms, gusts of wind and the height of the waves.
“The news is that if this system were to be consolidated, it could be formed more or less in the central and south-western part of the Caribbean Sea, a circumstance that would not generate so much impact, especially for the Colombian continental area during the next few days. We are going to see how it evolves in one way or another to issue the forecasts in due time, “he said.
Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center reported that the system would form north of the Gulf of Urabá and depending on the humidity and cloudiness it contains, it will produce an increase in rainfall in much of the center and south-west of the Caribbean coast. Although experts point out that it is not yet possible to know the direction that this first cyclone that will arrive in the country would take, they point out that if it veered north it would hit San Andrés and Providencia again.
Ideam warns about the possibility of floods in the coming days, especially in urban areas of cities. Photo: archive / Week.
They indicated that a new tropical cyclone could begin in the next three or four days. “It would be something very different from what happened with Oita and Eta, which formed in the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea and crossed broad sectors from east to west until they reached the San Andrés archipelago,” said Useche.
The Ideam official stated that we would have to wait to see how the system would evolve, since the atmospheric instability these days was very high in the Colombian tropical area and could favor the development of a new tropical storm.
It also reported that the advance of these tropical waves that are approaching with abundant cloudiness, will produce a high possibility of favoring the development of rainfall in the center of the country. “In Bogotá, we must be attentive to the tutelary hills since the increase in rainfall could bring with it some landslides in this area, which is very unstable, as well as the sudden increase in streams,” he stressed.
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Useche recalled that the country is also going through the second rainy season of the year, Therefore, he highlighted that it was very likely that they would register some significant rains in the remainder of November. “According to the weather, the second rainy season should last until the middle of December, but this year with the development of the La Niña phenomenon in the Equatorial Pacific, it is very possible that we will have an end of the year and a beginning 2021 not as dry and sunny as we are used to, “he stressed.
I affirm that you had to watch out for flash floods, landslides and floods, for which he called on the authorities to identify the areas of greatest danger and take measures to mitigate the risk.
