WARNING: BAD WEATHER COMING IN THE NEXT 12 HOURS!
31.07.2014

The Mayor of Nis, PhD Zoran Perisic today warned thecitizens that in the next 12 hours, in the territory of Nis District, is expected local disasters of such intensity that can cause extensive damage and can be very dangerous for the safety of people and animals.

"It is expected that local thunderstorm with hail, rainfall over 40 liters per square meter for a period of 12 hours, which according to the degree of danger is - a very dangerous weather," read the warning Perisic reporters at City Hall, breaking the official protocol of the conference. Under the label - very dangerous weather- the forecast is especially dangerous weather phenomena, and such an intensity that can cause extensive damage and can be very dangerous for the safety of people and animals. Warning issued Operational Centre of Emergency Situations in Niš, and it was put on the website city http://www.ni.rs/.

As we learned from Boban Džunić in Palilula Municipality on this occasion, the emergency meeting of the Municipal Council and municipal headquarters for emergency situations was held.

City Councillor Zarko Rankovic, chief of the City headquarters for emergency situations, told Tanjug that all the services in the city are raised to high level of readiness. He said that from recently bought 140 missiles against heavy rain the other left part is only 18 but today there was a decision to buy another 70. "We also had a warning of the danger of the storm earlier, but we have never had such an announcement with a note - "very dangerous", "said Rankovic. Niš and the environment are affected in the past week to daily rainfall and the city followed by a gust of wind. The material damage so far was from one situation to another and did not get the scale of natural disasters. The floods that destroyed a large number of material goods and agricultural crops in Nis and Toplica districts took place in April.