Strong Winds in Rio De Janeiro Cause Chaos, Blackouts and Affect ...
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A cloud of dust envelops Rio de Janeiro, but the images are only the most spectacular face of a wave of bad weather that hit the South and the South-East of Brazil. The cold front also hit São Paulo with gusts over 100 kilometers per hour, causing at least five victims, felled trees, collapses and blackouts. Disasters and interruptions affected metropolitans, airports and the port of Santos, one of the main commercial hubs of Latin America. In R…
The ventania that reaches the Rio de Janeiro on the afternoon of Wednesday fell trees, destroyed tents and roofs and caused the closing of the trade due to the drop of enegia in various points of the city, besides reflecting on the public transport: the subway lines and trains were suspended. The cracks can reach more than 90 km/h between this Wednesday and Thursday, with the passage of the system through the coast of Fluminense. Residents have …
More than 510,000 properties in the state of Rio de Janeiro were still without electricity on the morning of this 5th day (30.Jul.2026), one day after the windfall that hit the state with bursts of more than 100 km/h. According to Light, 44 trees fell on the electricity grid, interrupting the supply of energy to 370,000 customers. The windfall also caused 5 collapses in the state. One of them was the fall of a wall in the South Zone of the city …
A video recorded by an eyewitness recorded strong winds lifting dust over the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and trees swinging to the taste of the wind.
A blackout hit the city of Rio de Janeiro and municipalities of the state on the afternoon of Wednesday, 29, leaving more than 1.34 million properties without electricity. The failure was recorded around 4:38 pm and affected consumers attended by Light and Enel Rio. The circulation of lines 1, 2 and 4 of the subway was temporarily interrupted. + Understand news from Brazil in the West According to the panel of the National Electricity Agency, in…
Several neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro were left without light in the afternoon of Wednesday (29), in the middle of a wind blowing the city. The wind was considered very strong, reaching 105.5 km/h at Galeão Airport, in the North Zone, between 16h and 17h. Teams of the Fire Department of the State of Rio de Janeiro were activated for 26 rescues of people. The corporation also recorded four collapses and had to attend to 30 occurrences of tree c…
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