Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (Inameh) announced that the tropical wave season will begin on May 1st and last until November. According to Inameh’s president, José Pereira, there is an estimated average of 55 to 60 waves that will traverse from the east to the west starting from the coast of Africa, across the tropical Atlantic and reaching the Venezuelan coast. Depending on their magnitude and intensity, these waves could cause significant rain impacts on the population and their habitat.
The rainy season will begin regularly in Caracas and the central northern coastal region after the second half of June. The severe rainfall that occurred in some areas, which caused damage and affected at least five states, was due to a strong atmospheric instability line over the Venezuelan Caribbean. However, the president of Inameh assured that there will be progressive stability in the weather conditions from the last week of April, acknowledging that there might be some scattered rainfall due to the humidity of the previous days and high temperatures typical of this season.
The period of rainfall has only started on some areas such as Bolívar, Esequibo, Amazonas, Apure, Mérida, Táchira and southern Zulia, but it will gradually move north, modulated by the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
The Venezuelan government has evaluated the System of Early Warning, action lines on preventative measures, and plans for prevention and monitoring to deal with the rains in the national territory. The vice-presidents under the sectors of Sovereignty, Security and Peace, Socialism, Social and Territorial, Public Works and Services, Science, Technology, Education and Health, Communication, Culture and Tourism, and Planning participated in a council meeting to work on these plans.
