In all, there was 125 mm of precipitation, while the average for the month is 288 mm, according to the civil defense; The mayor says crews are on the streets to minimize impacts
THE Thunderstorm volume What hit Sao Paulo this Friday the 24thcorresponds to almost half of the rain expected for January in city. Overall, there was 125 mm of precipitation, while the average for the month is 288 mm, according to the civil defense. That is, this Friday alone, it rained 43.4% of the forecast for the first 31 days of the year in the state capital. Until this Thursday, the amount of rainfall was 193.2 mm.
The rain was also treated as historic. This is the third largest rainfall recorded in the city of São Paulo in the last 64 years. The data comes from the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet), calculated at the Mirante de Santana station, in the north of the capital, which carries out the 1961 measurements.
Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB) reported on social networks that city teams are on the streets to minimize impacts and recover flood points in the city.
“Sao Paulo today faced a volume of rainfall that was half of what was expected for the entire month,” Nunes wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “There are 345 vehicles and 2,400 employees working to minimize impacts. We have already restored most of the 37 flood points; 33 have been recovered, with only four so far.”
The storm violence caused a series of disturbances in the city. Roads and roads were flooded. The floods carried cars and metro stations, such as Jardim Sao Paulo-Ayrton Senna (line 1-Azul), in the north, were taken by water that dripped heavily on the stairs.
The roof of the Norte shopping center, in the Vila Guilherme neighborhood, also in the northern region of the city, collapsed in the middle of the corridor, between shopkeepers and customers of the establishment. There are no records of casualties. The firefighters received the collapse of a house in Santana (north area) and no injuries were reported.

Even after the rains, People found it difficult to return home. In addition to slow traffic on streets and roads, with 462 kilometers of congestion at around 8.30pm, trains and the subway were also affected.
The stretch between Tucuruvi and Sao Paulo-Ayrton Senna stations (line 1-Azul) will be closed until midnight on Friday, the Sao Paulo metro company said, while other parts of the same line are reduced and more time to stop .
Furthermore, more than 140,000 properties were left unlit in the capital: the number had already fallen to 80,118 as of 11pm, according to the balance of ENEL, an energy distributor. The company says it has teams on the ground to restore service to customers who have been affected.
Severus Alert is fired for the first time in Sao Paulo
The civil defense issued, For the first time for the state capital, a serious alarm For mobile phones of people who are in the risk zone. The message was fired at 3.57pm and warned of the need for people to protect themselves from the rain.
On social networks, netizens criticized the civil defense for triggering the warning after the rains had already started.
The agency claims that a message had already been issued before, when the rain was moderate (in this case, only registered people received it) and fired the warning of serious dangers when it was sure, based on the data, that rain had great potential damage. “There were still uncertainties about its severity,” he said in a statement.
TO EstadãoLieutenant Maxwel Souza explains that Severus’ warning shot was made after the civil defense rain indicates rapid rain in a short time. “It was 80 mm in an hour, between 15h and 16h,” said the civil defense lieutenant. “The forecast is for 288 mm of rain in each month. This gives a measure of how heavy the rain was this afternoon,” he added.
Source: Terra

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