{"id":215931,"date":"2024-05-09T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=215931"},"modified":"2024-05-09T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:56:52","slug":"more-rains-on-thursday-but-weather-to-start-to-clear-by-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/more-rains-on-thursday-but-weather-to-start-to-clear-by-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"More rains on Thursday but weather to start to clear by Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lluvias-Diario-Libre-1024x652.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201904\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lluvias-Diario-Libre-1024x652.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lluvias-Diario-Libre-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lluvias-Diario-Libre-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lluvias-Diario-Libre.png 1086w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader returned promptly from his trip to Washington D.C. to receive a leadership award and participate in the 54th Meeting of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas to go direct to the Presidential Palace for a meeting on government actions now that the country has been under intense rains for weeks. There has been major flooding in cities and damages to farms and road infrastructure. Several troughs have brought intense rains in April and May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre reported that the meeting convened at the Presidential Palace gathered Defense Minister Carlos Diaz Morfa; Civil Defense director Juan Sala; ministers of the Presidency, Joel Santos; Public Works, Deligne Ascenci\u00f3n; Public Health V\u00edctor Atallah; Energy and Mines, Antonio Almonte; the directors of the Santo Domingo Water Corporation (Caasd), Fellito Suberv\u00ed; the director of the National Institute of Potable Waters (Inapa) Wellington Arnaud; the director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi) Olmedo Caba. Also the Commander general of the Army, Major General Carlos Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez Onofre; the director of the National Police, General Ram\u00f3n Antonio Guzm\u00e1n Peralta; the director of the General Transit and Transport Security Agency (Digesett) General Francisco Ozoria de la Cruz; the director of 911, Colonel Rodolfo Rijo G\u00f3mez; and the president of the Dominican power distributors (Ede) Cesar Marranzini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Weather Office (Onamet) is forecasting more bad weather for most of May. Nevertheless, Onamet says the present trough will have moved on and by Saturday and Sunday there should be some sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, weather for Thursday is expected to impact Greater Santo Domingo and the northern provinces of Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez, Saman\u00e1, Duarte, S\u00e1nchez Ram\u00edrez, Hato Mayor, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, Monse\u00f1or Nouel (Bonao), La Vega, Santiago, and the southwestern and border provinces of San Juan de la Maguana, Independencia, Dajab\u00f3n and El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/05\/08\/abinader-realiza-reunion-de-emergencia-por-lluvias\/2715955\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/de-buena-tinta\/2024\/05\/08\/inundaciones-urbanas-de-la-capital\/2715750\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/05\/09\/lluvias-causan-inundaciones-urbanas-y-agricolas-y-afectan-estructuras\/2715974\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/onamet.gob.do\/index.php\/pronosticos\/informe-del-tiempo\">Onamet <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 May 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader returned promptly from his trip to Washington D.C. to receive a leadership award and participate in the 54th Meeting of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas to go direct to the Presidential Palace for a meeting on government actions now that the country has been under intense rains for weeks. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/05\/09\/more-rains-on-thursday-but-weather-to-start-to-clear-by-friday\/\" 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\/215931"}],"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=215931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216005,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215931\/revisions\/216005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}