Brazil Issues Multi-State Weather Alerts as Heavy Rains Trigger Flooding and Displacement

Overview

• INMET has active red, orange and yellow warnings across several regions, covering hundreds of municipalities with risks of floods, landslides, falling trees, power cuts and lightning.
• In southern Bahia, a house collapsed in Medeiros Neto and ten people were displaced, while Pau Brasil reported a roughly six‑meter river rise in about 20 minutes, inundating homes and isolating communities as crisis teams opened shelters.
• Tocantins remains largely under an orange danger alert forecasting up to 100 mm of rain in a day and winds of 60–100 km/h, with a yellow notice for the Bico do Papagaio area.
• In Piauí, 96 municipalities are under 24‑hour INMET alerts valid until 10 a.m. Saturday, warning of 20–30 mm/hour or up to 50 mm/day and a high risk of outages, flooding and lightning in some areas.
• Urban flooding also hit Montes Claros (MG), where 30.8 mm fell in two hours, inundating streets and a school and disrupting traffic, as authorities urged residents to follow safety guidance and contact Defesa Civil (199) or Corpo de Bombeiros (193).