The heavy rains caused by the passage of an extratopical cyclone, in addition to leaving at least five dead in the southern region, left more than a thousand homeless and more than 2,700 homeless in Rio Grande do Sul.
According to an update from the Civil Defense this Tuesday morning (5), 60 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul reported events related to the rains.
More than 2,700 are displaced and 1,060 are homeless in public shelters, according to the Civil Defense.
The concepts of homeless and displaced are different. Homeless is someone who has lost their home and is in a public shelter. The displaced had to leave their home – they did not necessarily lose it – and are not in shelters, but in the home of a relative, friend or acquaintance, for example.
In total, it is estimated that 18,500 people were directly affected by the storm in the state, and more than 2.5 million were indirectly affected.
247 people have already been rescued – some of them rescued by helicopter on the roofs of their homes.
Five deaths in RS and SC
This Tuesday morning, the number of deaths caused by heavy rains caused by the passage of an extratropical cyclone through the southern region of Brazil rose to five.
The SC Fire Department informed the CNN that the garrison team of the city of São Lourenço do Oeste was called to respond to an occurrence of a eucalyptus tree that fell on a vehicle and killed the driver. The victim was an adult male, who was alone in the car when firefighters arrived at the scene.
In Mato Castelhano, a person died trying to cross an area flooded by an overflowing river, and was carried away by the current.
In Passo Fundo, a man was electrocuted in the Cruzeiro neighborhood. About 20 homes in the city had their roofs damaged by the hailstorm.
In Ibiraiaras, two people died after being trapped inside a vehicle when trying to cross a river overflow area and being carried away by the current.
Cyclone moves south
The extratropical cyclone that hit the southern region in recent days has moved away, but the passage of the cold front associated with it causes a sharp drop in temperature in the southern region this Tuesday (5), points out Climatempo.
In an interview with CNN Climatempo meteorologist Maria Clara Sassaki said that some cities in Rio Grande do Sul recorded, in just that first week, all the rain expected for the month of September.
“This large amount of rain keeps the alert over the next few days, even if the weather is firmer, because the water still takes time to drain. The rivers end up overflowing, causing new floods, new landslides”, he explained.
The specialist also said that, with the cyclone’s removal, firm weather returns to predominate in the South and opens up space for polar air to lower temperatures in the region even further. In the border region with Uruguay and in the Gaúcha Campaign, the risk of frost is accentuated.
“Throughout the day, steady weather returns to Rio Grande do Sul and the polar air takes over the southern region of the country. Now we have a risk of frost, with very low temperatures over the next few days in the south of the country”, he reported.
Source: CNN Brasil
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