Brazil Issues Wide-Ranging Heavy-Rain Alerts as Weekend Storms Focus on Minas and Espírito Santo

Overview

• Inmet’s orange alert is in force this Saturday for the Federal District and 10 states, with 30–60 mm of rain per hour or 50–100 mm in a day and wind gusts of 60–100 km/h.
• Belo Horizonte and more than 700 municipalities in Minas Gerais remain under an orange alert, and the city’s civil defense raised landslide risk to strong in parts of the capital through Tuesday.
• In Rio Grande do Norte, Inmet expanded a yellow alert to all 167 municipalities for Saturday, forecasting up to 50 mm of rain in 24 hours with 40–60 km/h winds.
• Ceará has a yellow alert for Sunday covering 87 municipalities including Fortaleza, with 20–30 mm/h or up to 50 mm/day and gusts up to 60 km/h.
• Forecasts show a partial break in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with only isolated showers, while heavier rain persists between Minas and Espírito Santo and across the North as CPTEC highlights peak totals near the ES–RJ border and around Belém; much of the South stays stable.