The passage of the extratropical cyclone through the southern region of the country caused a windstorm between Wednesday (10) and Thursday (11) in the city of São Paulo, bringing down trees and causing chaos with the loss of electricity in more than 2.2 million homes.
And the main reason for this scenario was the wind, which blew with frequent and strong gusts in all regions.
According to the CGE (Climate Emergency Management Center) of São Paulo City Hall, the strongest gust was 98.1 km/h, recorded Wednesday at 12:40 p.m. at the Lapa-Leopoldina meteorological station.
This mark is not the highest of the year, however, a title that goes to a windstorm on September 22, when 100.8 km/h was recorded at the same station at 2:10 p.m.
This is also the record recorded in the 33 CGE meteorological stations since 2006, as well as on January 24, 2018, at the same location.
Wednesday’s 98.1 km/h also matches the same mark as October 18, 2016 at the Santana/Carandiru station.
Check out the ten fastest wind gusts ever recorded by the CGE below.
The latest power cuts in Greater São Paulo
3.Nov.23: Several regions of São Paulo recorded a series of destruction that afternoon due to a storm accompanied by wind gusts exceeding 100 km/h and hail. At least three deaths have been confirmed by Civil Protection and the Fire Department. More than 110 hours after the storm, around 11 thousand properties remained, Wednesday (8) at 10 a.m., without electricity in the metropolitan region of the capital, provoking protests from residents.
18.Mar.24: A power outage caused interruptions in the electricity supply, even affecting the water supply. According to Enel, an incident in the underground network which serves the Higienópolis district caused an interruption around 10:30 a.m. Early this Tuesday morning (19), power outages were again reported.
October 11.24: The city suffered a major power outage after a strong storm, affecting more than 2 million homes. Some areas took more than a week for service to be fully restored. The Union Comptroller General (CGU) later concluded that Enel had failed in its contingency plans during this and other events in 2024.
21.Dec.24: Another large-scale event occurred between Friday (20) and Saturday (21), felling dozens of trees, flooding roads and causing rivers to overflow. In the capital’s metropolitan area, around 666,000 Enel customers were left without power. According to the company, 70% of incidents were caused by wires coming into contact with vegetation. Saturday at 8 p.m., nearly 88,000 homes were still without electricity.
10.Dec.25: In the current case, winds gusting to nearly 100 km/h left more than 2.2 million properties without power in Greater São Paulo, and about 1.3 million of them were still in the dark more than 24 hours later.
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