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Hurricane Adrian Means More
Rain Than Normal in Costa Rica
This weekend will be wetter than
normal thanks to the effects of
"Adrian", the tropical storm
that converter to Hurricane as
it hit the El Salvador coast and
weakening as it moved east
towards the Caribbean.
Hurricane Adrian slammed into El
Salvador's coast before dawn
yesterday, cutting off power and
forcing officials to close
schools and remove about 14,000
people from the area.
The storm quickly weakened as it
raced across Central America and
no deaths directly linked to the
storm were reported.
The centre of the hurricane hit
a stretch of coast near the
capital, San Salvador, according
to the U.S. National Hurricane
Center in Miami, which reported
maximum sustained winds of
almost 120 kilometres an hour as
it made landfall.
The effect on Costa Rica is more
rain. We are now officially into
the rainy season, but Adrian
will bring more rain than usual
for this time of year, according
to Lidier Esquivel, of the
Comisión Nacional de Emergencias.
The areas greatest affected will
be the norther zone of
Guanacaste and the Pacific
Central which includes
Puntarenas and Jacó beach.
The Comisión Nacional de
Emergencias (CNE) said there no
reports of rivers overflowing
their banks or flooding, even in
areas prone to flooding.
Notwithstanding the Cruz Roja
(Red Cross) is standing by with
a crew of 1.000 people in the
event of an emergency.
The CNE expects conditions back
to normal - normal rain - in the
next 48 hours.
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