The storm for which Innumerable had announced a Orange alert for Montevideo y Almost the entire national territory was launched towards the center of the capitalminutes before 17:00 this Thursday, with a strong and brief storm that reached the coast from Buenos Aires and It briefly darkened the sky, brought heavy rain and winds and caused damage in some neighborhoods.
In Palermo, the brief storm caused some explosions, and broken windows were also reported in La Blanqueada. El Cerro was the neighborhood where it rained the most, According to the Inumet monitor.
Minutes later the rains, winds and lightning continued on the coast of Montevideo and Plaza Independencia, although with less intensity.
The current orange alert warns of heavy rains in short periodsoccasional hail, intense electrical activity and very strong gusts of wind.
Also on Thursday, hail was reported on the country’s coast. In the departments of Paysandú and Salto It was reported that hail fall of large proportions during the morning of this Thursday.
The orange alert applies to the entire Uruguayan territory except for the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú and Tacuarembó, which have a yellow alert.
According to the weather station at Melilla Airport, the strongest wind recorded was a gust of 61 kilometers per hour. The winds were recorded between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. this Thursday, meteorologist Mario Bidegain reported on his social networks.
