Inmet Keeps Rain and Wind Alerts as Brazil Turns Warmer This Weekend

Overview

• National weather advisories remain in effect through Saturday with forecasts of 30–60 mm of rain per hour or 50–100 mm per day and gusts up to 100 km/h in parts of the Center-West, North and Southeast, according to Inmet.
• Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais are under a yellow alert of up to 50 mm/day and winds above 60 km/h, with meteorologists expecting temperatures to rise as summer begins on Sunday.
• Petrópolis stays in a stage of attention after severe flooding, and authorities continue to look for CPTrans employee Mauro de Oliveira França using divers, drones and boats.
• Storm impacts persist across other regions, including flooded avenues and power outages in Palmas and more than 30 mm of rain on Friday in Juiz de Fora, which earlier in the week logged hundreds of emergency calls and dozens of displaced families.
• Inmet data show 2025 has already recorded 117 severe wind events above 80 km/h, the most since automated measurements began in 2000, underscoring heightened wind risk during storms.