Yellow Alert Remains for Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula
Weather conditions in the Nicoya Peninsula have improved since intense rainfall hammered the northwestern region of Costa Rica early this week. The National Emergency Commission (CNE) maintained a yellow alert for the North and Central Pacific.
The yellow alert is the second of Costa Rica's three alert levels.
The low pressure system that drenched the Pacific coast throughout the week has passed, but the National Meteorological Institute (IMN) is forecasting rains of “varying intensities” to come. Due to these weather conditions, the CNE said the yellow alert level is still necessary.
Early estimates from the IMN calculate that more rain fell in the Nicoya Peninsula this week than normally falls during the entire month of May.
According to the IMN, the city of Santa Cruz, located in the middle of the Nicoya Peninsula, receives an average of 235 millimeters of rain each year during May. Some areas of the Nicoya received nearly 290 millimeters of rain through Wednesday, the IMN reported.
As of Thursday morning, almost 200 Costa Rica homes in 88 different communities had reported flooding, and 260 people remained in temporary evacuation shelters in the Nicoya Peninsula. More than 100 additional persons had been moved to homes of family members who were not as affected by the rains, according to the CNE.
The rains washed out 17 bridges and flooded 30 roadways – 26 municipal roads and four national routes. In addition, sewer systems in seven communities have been clogged, the CNE reports.
Costa Rica's Southern Pacific region remains under green alert, the lowest of Costa Rica's alert levels.
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