Four provinces on yellow alert due to rains in the Dominican Republic

Published at: 20/03/2026 08:56 PM

The Emergency Operations Center (COE) in the Dominican Republic raised yellow alert levels for the provinces of Monte Cristi, Valverde, Dajabón and Santiago Rodríguez due to “imminent risk and emergency situations.”

These demarcations that were on green alert were placed on yellow alert due to the rains of different intensity that occur in those areas. “When the upward trend in the development of the event involves imminent situations of risk and severe emergency situations,” the COE explained about the reason for placing a province on yellow alert.

The entity left the provinces of Puerto Plata and Elías Piña on green alert. The rest of the country is not under alert. According to the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), a prefrontal flood continues over the country.

It is associated with a frontal system located over Cuba, which, by interacting with the local effects of daytime and orographic warming, favors cloudy conditions so that rains of different intensity continue to be produced.

This Saturday, the frontal system will pass over Dominican territory, will maintain a mostly cloudy sky and will generate morning showers in some provinces such as Santiago, Valverde, Monte Cristi, Puerto Plata, Espaillat, Hermanas Mirabal, La Altagracia, among others.

In the afternoon, rainfall could intensify, with moderate to heavy downpours, thunderstorms and gusts of wind, especially in regions such as San Cristóbal, Santo Domingo, Monte Plata, Hato Mayor, El Seibo and María Trinidad Sánchez, as well as in other nearby areas, Indomet said.

Mazo News Team