Green alert issued by COE

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The Center of Emergency Operations (COE) has issued a Green Alert for the residents of the provinces of Barahona, Independencia and Bahoruco, due to heavy rains caused by airflows from the southeast and pre-frontal conditions over the Windward Passage. The COE recommends that residents of these three provinces who live near creeks, rivers and streams should be on the lookout for flash flooding. The bulletin, issued late Wednesday, also says that people who live on mountainsides should take precautions against landslides. The National Meteorological Office (ONAMET) says in its bulletin that the weather will be influenced by a combination of wind flows from the southeast that carry a lot of humidity. Onamet is forecasting rains over much of the country due to a frontal system over the Windward Passage that is moving slowly eastwards. The heaviest rains are expected to fall in the northwest, the southwest, the west and the central mountains.

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