MARN warns of the danger of landslides and floods – 2024-06-23 09:16:56

Alma Vilches

@AlmaCoLatino

Though the momentary rains have stopped, the top of the Ministry of Surroundings and Pure Assets (MARN), Fernando López, defined that there’s a threat of landslides and flooding, since one of many rainiest weeks within the historical past of the area has simply ended. nation.

“The gathered rain from your entire occasion reveals us that in Apaneca it was 869 millimeters, the emergency continues and we now have an orange alert all through the nation, we’re vulnerable to dangers. “June 2024 is the wettest within the final 54 years,” he said.

In response to the official, there are not any surveillance methods within the Pacific, nonetheless, the Atlantic and what occurs within the Gulf of Mexico are monitored, as a result of that’s the place it could actually not directly have an effect on El Salvador and generate any such storm.

“Within the mornings we are going to see solar, with some clouds, within the afternoons, the presence {of electrical} storms, though the occasion ended, we’re nonetheless within the wet season and we can have these circumstances within the afternoons and nights,” he emphasised.

Civil Safety reported that within the final week they’ve attended roughly 2,000 incidents because of the rains, of those, 873 are fallen bushes, 335 landslides, 643 blocked roads, 222 houses with slight harm, 214 flooded by water and 10 with very severe harm. severe