A heavy rainstorm with hail hit the city of Belo Horizonte (MG) on Sunday afternoon (the 15th). Since 9:30 in the morning, the capital of Minas Gerais and hundreds of other cities in the state have been under a yellow alert for storms.
The yellow alert is the lowest level of severity on the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) scale and indicates a situation of potential danger.
All municipalities in the states of São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul, most of the states of Rio de Janeiro, Paraná, and Goiás, and parts of the states of Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso have also been placed under alert.
There is also a yellow alert for parts of the states of Tocantins, Pará, Maranhão, Recife, and Bahia. The yellow alert is in effect until the end of the day today.
Inmet forecasts that the states located in the Central-South region of the country should face storms until tomorrow (the 16th).
Due to the action of a meteorological trough [a name given to an area of instability that favors the formation of storm clouds], the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, and areas of the South Region should face rain this Sunday (the 15th).
According to Inmet, throughout the afternoon and evening it may also rain in the interior of the Northeast, especially in the west and south of the region.
As for tomorrow (the 16th), the trend is for the continuation and intensification of the instabilities, reaching even areas that have not recorded significant rainfall in recent days.