The S.A.T. recommends a special notice to the emergency authorities in the Department of La Guajira because from the third or fourth week of April the first rains of the first rainy season of the year will appear. 2015, extending during the months of May and mid-June, all of this due to the presence of the Intertropical Confluence Zone. (Z.C.I.T.), Precipitation is expected within normal ranges, effects could occur on the Colombian Caribbean Coast.
The S.A.T office. warns that there will be an increase in rainfall throughout the Department in the aforementioned months, and the occurrence of gales is not ruled out, electrical storms, landslides are not ruled out in the southern municipalities of La Guajira and Dibulla. Nor are there conditions of sudden flooding in rivers, especially those that come down from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perija.. Due to this season the Early Warning System (S.A.T.) recommends that the Municipal and Regional Risk Management Councils “CDGR and CMGR” take preventive measures in the event of possible emergencies that may arise in their jurisdiction., through the activation of your Response Strategies Plans.