Elaine Patricia Cruz       Reporter Agência Brasil

São Paulo – Early last night, Thursday, December 5, Civil Defense authorities in the city of São Paulo decreed a state of alert and put the neighborhoods of Butantã, Lapa, Perus, Pirituba-Jaraguá and Freguesia de Ó under a state of attention. The state Emergency Management Center (“CGE”) declared that areas of weather instability in the interior of the state were moving into the capital. In Barueri, a city in the great São Paulo metropolitan region, there was a hail storm at 6:30 pm.

The weather bureau reports that heavy rain is expected today (Friday, December 6) with possible flooding (“alagamentos”) in the late afternoon and early evening. The forecast for the next two days is rain with thunder storms.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

Link - Defesa Civil decreta estado de atenção para enchentes na cidade de São Paulo