Expert Guillermo Remis said in a radio appearance that rainfall will particularly affect “the departments south of the Negro River” and that the Uruguayan capital could bear “the worst part”.

Remis warned that March will end “with a water level above 100 millimeters, it could be 230 or 250”, values above the average for that month.

For this reason, he warned of possible floods and road closures due to “overflowing streams and rivers”.

He also called for the need to take precautions such as “cleaning the drains” to ease water drainage. There have been many days of storms”, he emphasized.

The meteorological agency Metsul, which predicted that “a wave of storms will hit Argentina, Uruguay, and the south of Brazil”, made a similar statement.

Metsul forecasts a “high risk of locally heavy to intense rains and storms with very strong wind gusts at some points”. jrr/jav/mem/ool