Brazil Extends Storm Alerts as Mato Grosso do Sul Hit With Highest Warning

Overview

• Inmet maintains orange danger alerts for heavy rain and strong winds across large areas through Friday, including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná and Minas Gerais, with a focused notice for Rio’s South and Costa Verde from Thursday to Friday morning.
• All 184 municipalities in Ceará remain under alerts through Friday, with updated notices on Thursday forecasting up to 100 mm of rain per day and wind gusts of 60–100 km/h and listing dozens of interior cities at higher risk.
• Mato Grosso do Sul is under the highest-severity warning for storms between Thursday and Friday, with forecasts of intense rain, hail and gusts up to 100 km/h affecting broad swaths including the Pantanal and regions from the southwest to the center-north.
• Additional alerts were issued for parts of Piauí after Teresina recorded 68 mm on Tuesday night, for Tocantins under a statewide yellow alert through Friday morning, and for 69 municipalities in Goiás as regional monitors flagged the risk of isolated severe storms.
• Inmet quantifies the hazard at 30–60 mm of rain per hour or 50–100 mm per day with localized hail and power outages possible, and Defesa Civil advises people to avoid trees and flooded roads, unplug electronics, and call 193 (fire department) or 199 (civil defense) in emergencies.