Nicaragua decrees green and yellow alerts before Bonnie’s imminent impact

The government of Nicaragua decreed this Friday green and yellow alert states throughout the country, when there are hours left for the impact of tropical storm Bonnie, which was located 160 kilometers east of the coastal city of Bluefields, in the South Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACS, northwest).

“Our president (Daniel Ortega) has informed Sinapred (National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention), the declaration of green alert and yellow alert throughout the national territory, is an important and necessary step”reported Vice President Rosario Murillo, through government media.

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The Nicaraguan authorities hope that Bonnie impact tonight in the RACS, with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour, reaching 185 kilometers from its center, according to information from the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Since the middle of this week, the institutions that make up Sinapred have prepared shelters, carried out evacuations, and suspended sailings, to mitigate the impact of Bonniethe second storm of the 2022 hurricane season in the Atlantic basin.

The Government of Nicaragua made the preparations, even before declaring the green alert, which according to national legislation is decreed when a disaster is probable. Or the yellow alert, which comes into force when a phenomenon tends to grow dangerously.

Some 715,008 people are on the route of Bonnieaccording to figures from the state-run National Institute for Development Information (Inide).

The NHC warns that “the rains are expected to cause life-threatening flash flooding and landslides.”

The impact of tropical cyclones in the Nicaraguan Caribbean occurs with relative frequency, since, according to the combined records of the Ineter and the NHC, since 1892 at least 55 of these phenomena have hit Nicaragua when entering that coast.

Source: Elcomercio

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