The rains of february 2023
After three years without precipitations, they came back to smash the same places where a similar episode happened more than a decade ago. A heavy rain falling over Sapillica Town, Upper Chipillico Valley, Ayabaca Province , on February 21 st , 2023. However, just 0.8 inches of rain fell that day. (Footage provided by El Tambograndino Noticias ) The most Piura Department, Peru, had moderate to heavy rains between 19 th and 25 th of February, 2023, feeling stronger between 22 nd and 23 rd . It was not a surprising episode. Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhyi, as in Spanish)issued such warnings since the 19 th by tagging orange alertfor coast and highlands of Northern Peru. Based upon satellite reports consulted by FACTORTIERRA and eyewitnesses on the field, the precipitations smashed mostly on Provinces ayabaca, Huancabamba, and Morropón, the whole crossed by the Andean Range, which had receiving rains intermitentely since beginning