Heavy rainfall causes power cuts, fallen trees in the City

Registered rainfall in the city of Buenos Aires hit 55.9 millimetres this morning, the Central Observatory in Villa Ortúzar informed. The storms hit the city and Greater Buenos Aires area overnight and lasted over a period of seven hours, causing power cuts across some neighbourhoods, and many broken traffic lights.

In the city neighbourhood of Liniers a YPF petrol station roof fell through, after buckling under the strain of piled up rain water in the middle of the storms. Officials assured that the incident occurred at around 1 am and that there were no reported casualties. The petrol station was out of service today and cordoned off by police.

Furthermore, across Buenos Aires province the strength of the storms caused trees to fall, and in southern areas roofs to fall in on weaker structured buildings.

In addition, weather warnings were issued across seven provinces for the rest of the day. Storm alerts were given out for Buenos Aires, central and southern Córdoba, central and eastern part of La Pampa, San Luis, south of Santa Fe, Buenos Aires Capital city and the southern area of Entre Ríos, the Weather Forecasting Service (SMN) said.

Similarly, SMN also forecasted the possibility of heavy isolated storms, thunder and lightning and occasional hail.