{"id":495754,"date":"2025-12-26T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/valle-nuevo-records-the-first-extreme-frost-of-the-2025-2026-frontal-season\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:59:15","slug":"valle-nuevo-records-the-first-extreme-frost-of-the-2025-2026-frontal-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/valle-nuevo-records-the-first-extreme-frost-of-the-2025-2026-frontal-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Valle Nuevo records the first extreme frost of the 2025-2026 frontal season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Constanza.\u2013<\/strong> Early this Friday morning, the <strong>first extreme frost of the 2025-2026 frontal season<\/strong> was recorded in Valle Nuevo, Constanza municipality, with a <strong>minimum temperature of -7.3 \u00b0C<\/strong>, as a result of the direct influence of a <strong>polar air mass<\/strong> affecting the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\nThe<strong> meteorologist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeanSuriel\/status\/2004572506514977086\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeanSuriel\/status\/2004572506514977086\">Jean Suriel<\/a> <\/strong>indicated that in addition to the marked thermal drop, the event left <strong>four unusual winter phenomena in the Caribbean<\/strong>, characteristic of the mountainous areas of the country:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Frost:<\/strong> the dew froze on the vegetation, forming a <strong>whitish mantle<\/strong> that covered the pajones of the protected area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hoarfrost:<\/strong> the tiny droplets of fog froze on contact with shrubs and plants, creating <strong>ice needles<\/strong> attached to the vegetation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hair ice:<\/strong> the water accumulated in the soil and subsoil sprouted to the surface in <strong>thin frozen strands<\/strong>, a striking phenomenon associated with humid soils and sub-zero temperatures.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Surface freezing:<\/strong> the water left in containers outdoors <strong>froze completely<\/strong>, because the temperatures remained <strong>below zero from 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/valle-de-constanza-temperaturas\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/valle-de-constanza-temperaturas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constanza Valley and Valle Nuevo wake up with extreme temperatures of 9\u00b0C and 5\u00b0C<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valle Nuevo is one of the areas of the country where <strong>extreme temperatures are most frequently recorded during the winter season<\/strong>. The analyst highlighted that <strong>the Dominican Republic is the only country in the Antilles where sub-zero temperatures are reached<\/strong> during the frontal season and the so-called tropical winter, <strong>thanks to the presence of the highest mountains and peaks in the entire Caribbean region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constanza.\u2013 Early this Friday morning, the first extreme frost of the 2025-2026 frontal season was recorded in Valle Nuevo, Constanza municipality, with a minimum temperature of -7.3 \u00b0C, as a result of the direct influence of a polar air mass affecting the Dominican Republic. The meteorologist Jean Suriel indicated that in addition to the marked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":495755,"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":[14774,19553],"class_list":["post-495754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-constanza","tag-valle-nuevo"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24Y2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-12-26T125503.181.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\/12\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-12-26T125503.181.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495754","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=495754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}