Warning ends for tropical storm Bonnie in Colombia

The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Ideam) of Colombia reported this Saturday that tropical storm Bonnie He moved away from the archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia and no longer poses a risk to the country, which is why he ended the alert he had issued, official sources reported.

The state National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd) pointed out on social networks that according to the Ideam “The end of the alert is declared due to the passage of tropical storm Bonnie, which no longer presents a risk to Colombia”.

Look: Bonnie goes to the Pacific and Colin trains inland in South Carolina.

The information added that “While waves and winds normalize in Saint Andrew and Providencia, a call is made to follow the recommendations of local authorities”.

The Governor of Saint AndrewEverth Hawkins, said that the passage of the storm left 22 affected homes, some of them in the southern sector of the island, where the winds and gusts were felt the most. Bonnie.

Likewise, the roofs of two hotels were affected by strong winds that reached speeds of up to 65 kilometers per hour during the early hours of Friday.

To deal with the storm and as a security measure, the Government ordered a curfew that ended this Saturday morning.

In addition, six temporary shelters were made available to the islanders in Saint Andrew and six in Providence.

the archipelago of Saint Andrewthe only insular department of Colombiawas hit in the early hours of November 16, 2020 by the impact of Hurricane Iota, category 5, which destroyed the infrastructure of the island of Providencia and left almost all of its 5,000 inhabitants homeless.

Tropical storm Bonnie, which made landfall on the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica on Friday, may become a hurricane over the Pacific next Tuesday, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported today.

According to an NHC bulletin, Bonnie is “getting better organized” and is going to strengthen on her way west over Pacific waters paralleling the western coasts of El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico.

The storm is located about 110 miles (180 km) southwest of Managua and about 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Cabo Blanco, in Costa Rica.

Bonnie, the second named storm of 2022 in the Atlantic basin, has maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour (65 km/h) and moves at 15 miles per hour (24 km/h).

Source: Elcomercio

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