{"id":487858,"date":"2025-10-23T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/indomet-warns-that-storm-melissa-will-continue-to-cause-heavy-showers-and-dangerous-waves\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:35:05","slug":"indomet-warns-that-storm-melissa-will-continue-to-cause-heavy-showers-and-dangerous-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/indomet-warns-that-storm-melissa-will-continue-to-cause-heavy-showers-and-dangerous-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Indomet warns that storm Melissa will continue to cause heavy showers and dangerous waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0The agency keeps 24 provinces under alert and weather warning for risk of urban and rural flooding<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nSanto Domingo. \u2013 <\/strong>The Dominican Republic Meteorology Institute (Indomet)<\/a><\/strong> warned that intense downpours will continue, accompanied by electrical storms and wind gusts, mainly over the southeast, southwest, and northwest regions, due to the indirect effects of Tropical Storm Melissa.\n\nThe agency explained that, this Thursday, while the system continues to move slowly over the waters of the Caribbean Sea, southwest of the country, a large part of the territory dawns under a mostly cloudy sky, and rains of variable intensity occur in San Crist\u00f3bal, Peravia, Azua, Pedernales, Barahona, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and Greater Santo Domingo.\n\nHe indicated that during the course of the day, moderate to heavy showers are expected, which could become torrential at times, extending towards other provinces of the Caribbean coast, as well as the southeast and southwest.\n\nThe Indomet reported that its Forecast Center maintains 24 provinces under alert and meteorological warning levels, due to the risk of urban and rural flooding, as well as rising rivers, streams and ravines.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>COE maintains 8 provinces and the National District on red alert due to storm Melissa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nHe pointed out that the provinces of Duarte, Santiago, Independencia, Bahoruco, San Juan, El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a and Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez are under meteorological alert. Meanwhile, La Vega, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, Santo Domingo and Distrito Nacional, Pedernales, Barahona, La Altagracia, San Crist\u00f3bal, El Seibo, La Romana, Peravia, Azua, Monte Plata, Hato Mayor, Monse\u00f1or Nouel, S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez, San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa and Saman\u00e1 remain at the warning level.\n\n\n

Maritime Conditions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe institution reiterated to the operators of fragile, small and medium-sized vessels that they must remain in port, due to the strong waves, abnormal winds and the presence of electrical storms in coastal areas. Likewise, it urged bathers and beach users to consult local authorities before entering the sea, due to the risk of rip currents and dangerous breakers.\n\n\n

Melissa’s Evolution and Trajectory<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe Indomet reported that, at 8:00 a.m., Tropical Storm Melissa was located about 440 kilometers southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It continues to move west\/northwest, at about 7 km\/h, and is expected to maintain this speed for the next 24 hours, with a gradual turn towards the northwest or north, followed by a turn towards the west, during the weekend.\n\nHe specified that this system has maximum sustained winds of 85 km\/h and higher gusts, and a gradual strengthening is forecast over the coming days.\n\nThe Indomet reiterated its call to the population to remain attentive to the official updates of its bulletins and to follow the guidelines of the civil protection agencies.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The agency keeps 24 provinces under alert and weather warning for risk of urban and rural flooding Santo Domingo. \u2013 The Dominican Republic Meteorology Institute (Indomet) warned that intense downpours will continue, accompanied by electrical storms and wind gusts, mainly over the southeast, southwest, and northwest regions, due to the indirect effects of Tropical Storm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":487859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[40389,42682,42674,41957],"class_list":["post-487858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-downpours","tag-melissa","tag-melissa-storm","tag-swell"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22UG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-10-23T093027.986.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-10-23T093027.986.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}