Brazil Issues Wide Storm Alerts as Fast-Moving Front Drives Heavy Rain, Strong Winds and Hail

Overview

• The national weather service Inmet and state civil-defense agencies maintained multi-day warnings for storms across the South, Southeast, Center‑West, North and Northeast, with forecasts of 30–60 mm per hour or 50–100 mm per day and wind gusts up to 100 km/h.
• São Paulo’s Civil Defense warned for Nov 23–25 of intense rain with lightning, strong gusts and possible hail, flagging very high accumulations in the Vale do Paraíba, Litoral Norte, Serra da Mantiqueira, Baixada Santista and the capital region.
• Bahia recorded more than 90,000 lightning strikes in 48 hours as hundreds of municipalities stayed under alert; the state expanded public messaging with WhatsApp warnings that reached about 3 million people.
• Hailstorms damaged properties and crops in Paraná, with Guarapuava logging 91 assistance calls and Colombo reporting roughly 50 affected homes, while additional hail and flooding were reported in Rio de Janeiro’s northwest, including a collapsed sports-court roof in Itaocara.
• Further alerts covered Santa Catarina for storms with hail risk, Piauí for heavy rain in 45 municipalities through Monday morning, and multiple cities urged residents to sign up for SMS alerts at 40199 and use emergency numbers 199 and 193.