Overview

• Wind gusts near 98–100 km/h on Monday toppled hundreds of trees, shattered windows and initially cut electricity to nearly half a million customers in Greater São Paulo.
• By Wednesday morning, 37,118 addresses were still without power, and Enel later reported about 4,000 without service by night, saying it restored 97% and mobilized roughly 1,300 field teams.
• Brazil’s meteorological services kept high‑severity alerts in effect through Thursday for heavy rain and strong wind across parts of the Southeast, Center‑West and North, with Cimehgo listing 124 Goiás municipalities at risk and Tocantins under storm warnings.
• State authorities met with mayors to coordinate emergency repairs and said they will ask the judiciary to authorize the use of semi‑open detainees for street cleanups, while Procon and Aneel pressed Enel for contingency details and response metrics.
• Experts link the episode to a frontal system in a La Niña phase and warn that climate change raises the odds of intense spring storms, highlighting gaps in urban tree management and drainage that worsened the damage.