NWS Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city, provides that high humidity can raise the ‘intensity of rain this weekend and next week’
The National Meteorological Service of (NWS) warned on Friday (11) for more storms in part of the states of Texas and New Mexico, after recent floods that left more than 100 dead. “A wide ‘light risk warning occurs in most southern plains, including parts of the center and northern Texas, where previous conditions remain sensitive,” said NWS. The NWS office in Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico, predicts that high humidity can raise the “intensity of rain this weekend and next week”.
The agency reported on the “return of the risk of sudden floods in the southern plains on Saturday, including parts of the center of Texas”, as well as “generalized storms with risk of sudden floods and severe climate” in part of the midwest this weekend. This warning was given while the search for more than 170 missing by the floods last weekend in Texas, where about 120 deaths were confirmed, most in Kerr County and the rest in five other counties near the city of San Antonio.
President Donald Trump scheduled a visit on Friday to the region, amid questions of the opposition about the flood alert system and cuts of climate offices such as NWS. In New Mexico, three people died, including two children, on Tuesday, due to floods in the city of Ruidos, according to local authorities.
*With information from EFE
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