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Alert due to the rising of the River Plate

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The first report of the day from the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported on the strong storms that are affecting the northwest of the provinces of Buenos Aires and Córdoba as well as the south and center of Santa Fe and the center and east of the province of La Pampa. 

Meanwhile, the Flood Prevention Center of the Naval Hydrography Service, which is dependent on the Ministry of Defense, has reported this Tuesday (26.09.2017), through its Twitter account, that there is an alert for flooding of the Rio de la Plata for CABA and the coastal areas of the south and north of the Greater Buenos Aires"The inland Río de la Plata will be one metre and eighty centimetres above the values ​​indicated in the tide tables tonight and tomorrow morning," they specified.

Consequently, in the Port of La Plata Heights of 2.8 meters are estimated for 23 p.m. Also, in the port of Buenos Aires heights of 2.9 metres are expected at midnight. Meanwhile, in the Port of San Fernando The heights would reach 3.10 meters in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The SMN has also reported that "accumulated rainfall between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning is expected to be between 40 and 60 mm, and may be exceeded in some places." Meanwhile, the rain continues to fall and hundreds of social media users are recording the storm.

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