30 counties under warning yellow alert code of storms
National Meteorological Administration (ANM) has issued a yellow alert code of instability and increased cooling air between Sunday, 02: 00 and Monday 10: 00. The warning is valid for 30 counties.
Articol de Florin Matei, 13 Mai 2012, 10:55
Western regions, North, Centre and South, part of the country will be between Sunday 2.00 p.m. and Monday 10.00 under yellow alert code of rain, storms and isolated hail, according to an alert issued on Saturday by the National Meteorological Administration (ANM).
The warning is available for the counties of Timiş, Arad, Bihor, Satu Mare, Maramureş, Sălaj, Cluj, Alba, Hunedoara, Gorj, Caras Severin, Vâlcea, Sibiu, Mureş, Bistriţa Năsăud, Suceava, Brasov, Harghita, Argeş, Olt, Teleorman, Dâmboviţa, Romania, Bacău, Botoşani, Neamţ, Iaşi and partly in Vrancea, Buzău and Prahova.
According to ANM, atmospheric instability within the mentioned interval will increase gradually in most regions. It will be showers, lightning, strong wind that will appearance to be storm.
Isolated in some areas it will be hail.
Photo: Counties under weather alert yellow code of storms. Source: ANM.
Water quantities exceed local 25 litres per square metre and isolate, 40-50 litres per square metre, especially in the area of Carpathian Mountains and Southern Apuseni and in Transylvania.
ANM states that since Sunday the weather will cool appreciably throughout the country, becoming even cold for this period in areas of the West, the North and centre of the country.
On Sunday wind will also increase in the regions without yellow alert code, where gusts of wind isolated will exceed 60 kilometres per hour.
Translated by Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University
