{"id":215622,"date":"2024-05-06T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=215622"},"modified":"2024-05-06T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:06:17","slug":"it-has-been-a-wet-week-and-it-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/06\/it-has-been-a-wet-week-and-it-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"It has been a wet week and it will continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alerta-21-provincias-vaguada-Diario-Libre.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-215601\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alerta-21-provincias-vaguada-Diario-Libre.png 776w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alerta-21-provincias-vaguada-Diario-Libre-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alerta-21-provincias-vaguada-Diario-Libre-768x998.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) has placed over more than half of the Dominican Republic under some kind of alert. From Punta Cana to Montecristi, and all along the North Coast, there are both Yellow and Green alerts due to the rains that keep falling, Diario Libre reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communities in the province of Puerto Plata, on the north coast, made headlines for flooding after weeks of rains saturated the soils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although not in the news, the nation\u2019s second-largest city Santiago de los Caballeros is suffering from a serious water shortage due to the muddy water in the Yaque River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new weather front currently passing over the country is expected to cause rains into today, Monday, and possibly into this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the Southwest, known as the Deep South, traditionally dry areas and southcentral San Cristobal, Peravia and Azua, have escaped these latest heavy rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yellow alerts mean to be on the lookout for overflowing of rivers and streams and a heightened alert for landslides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/planeta\/clima\/2024\/05\/04\/clima-en-rd-coe-mantiene-21-provincias-en-alerta\/2711254\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/seguiran-los-aguaceros-hacia-el-interior-del-pais-dice-onamet-1635447\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/provincias\/20240505\/decenas-casas-afectadas-inundaciones-puerto-plata_807013.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/onamet.gob.do\/index.php\/pronosticos\/informe-del-tiempo\">Onamet updated weather report <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 May 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Emergency Operations (COE) has placed over more than half of the Dominican Republic under some kind of alert. From Punta Cana to Montecristi, and all along the North Coast, there are both Yellow and Green alerts due to the rains that keep falling, Diario Libre reports. Communities in the province of Puerto &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/06\/it-has-been-a-wet-week-and-it-will-continue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215682,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215622\/revisions\/215682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}