Riviera Maya, Q.R. — A majority of central Playa del Carmen was left under water Tuesday after back-to-back downpours. Rain accompanied by thunder and lightning began in the early evening and continued for several hours, leaving the center waterlogged.
Solidaridad Transit were out manning flooded main avenues, helping drivers maneuver around known trouble spots. City Council announced implementing Operation Storm due to the downpour.
“In immediate response to the coordinated actions of the Solidaridad City Council, elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat reinforced the work on the main roads to prevent accidents due to rain with Operation Storm,” Solidaridad Police announced Tuesday night.
However, the rain was not only in Playa del Carmen. Heavy rain was also felt in both the south and north of Riviera Maya due to a low pressure system. That system, according to local meteorologists, will keep the region on-again-off-again wet for the remainder of the week and into the weekend.
A system in the west is expected to clash with a developing disturbance in the east which “will give rise to a new period of intense to torrential rains in the southeast and east of Mexico,” the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) has reported.
Heavy bouts of rain of between 25 and 50 mm is forecast to continue throughout the week for Quintana Roo. On Wednesday, “the period of intense to extraordinary rains accompanied by electrical discharges will continue in addition to very heavy rains in Yucatan and Quintana Roo due to a possible tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Tehuantepec and two low pressure zones, one very close to the coast of the South Pacific of Mexico and the second in the Gulf of Mexico, in interaction with the monsoon trough.”
During Friday and Saturday, the low pressure zone in the Pacific Ocean will move south of the coasts of Michoacán, Colima, and Jalisco, while the low pressure zone in the Gulf of Mexico will remain in the vicinity of the Yucatan Peninsula, the SMN said.
“These systems, in interaction with the monsoon trough, will maintain intense to torrential rains accompanied by electrical discharges in the south and southeast of the national territory, as well as very heavy rains in the Yucatan Peninsula.
