Video: Emergency in the Chilean desert due to heavy rains

The Chilean Meteorological Department has revealed that the amount of rain fell Thursday in Calama (12 mm in less than three hours), due to the rainy season, has not been recorded for 47 years.

As this is an arid area, housing and infrastructure are not designed for this type of phenomenon that has had an unexpected year.

Meteorologist Alonso Guajardo told Radio Cooperativa that on February 10, 1972, 14.3 mm of water had precipitated, constituting "the strongest historic precipitation of February".

He badured that "the phenomenon will continue during the month of February, there is no weakening and it could be extended beyond February 10, it is a warning that we let's renew every three days. "

Although the National Emergency Office has indicated that "between today and dawn on Sunday, February 10, the situation will spread in the Cordillera and Foothills areas of the region. 39, Antofagasta, "said the meteorologist," today is the most important day, with rainfall ranging from 10 to 15 mm in the Cordillera and the foothills of Arica and Parinacota to Antofagasta ".

Finally, he explained that these rains "always occur in the evening because it is there that we reach the convection temperature, moisture from the sea and the flow of high Bolivia".

Source: Emol.com