Overview
- More than 100 millimeters fell in hours across the AMBA, with neighborhoods such as Villa Devoto reaching about 155 millimeters, surpassing the city’s typical October total in one night.
- Flooding swamped key corridors including Avenida General Paz and sections of the Panamericana and Buenos Aires–La Plata highways, forcing closures and underpass shutdowns.
- About 16,000 households were without electricity in the morning, with outages concentrated in barrios such as Flores, Floresta, Parque Avellaneda, Villa General Mitre and Villa Santa Rita, according to ENRE.
- The City activated Defensa Civil, Fire, Police, Traffic, Public Space and Auxiliary Guard teams under the control center, handling hundreds of storm-related calls and drainage operations.
- SMN kept orange and yellow alerts in parts of central and northern Argentina, with reports of hail, damaging winds and localized damage in provinces such as Santiago del Estero, as conditions were expected to ease later Saturday.