The Emergency Operations Center (COE) has placed ten provinces at risk of possible floods and mudslides on green alert. In addition, the National Meteorological Office (ONAMET) says that rains and storms will continue due to a tropical wave over Puerto Rico, and they will be more frequent in the northeast, southeast, southwest, center of the country, central mountain range and the border regions.
The provinces on green alert are Monte Plata, Samana, Duarte (especially the Bajo Yuna river basin), Maria Trinidad Sanchez (Nagua), La Romana, Hato Mayor, San Pedro de Macoris, El Seibo, La Altagracia (Higuey) and Greater Santo Domingo.
Temperatures will continue to be seasonally high across the whole country, due to the wind coming from the east/south east.
Tropical depression 2 has now become tropical storm Barry and is around 115 kilometers east-northeast of Veracruz, Mexico, moving eastwards at 9kph with maximum sustained winds of 65kph, but forecasters say it poses no threat to the Dominican Republic.
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