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The heat wave that hits all of Mexico gives no truce to anyone, the high temperatures that are registered in national territory have generated that authorities of all levels of government issue alerts for the population and thus reduce the affectations.
Social networks play a fundamental role in the way people demonstrate today, in addition to complaints about high temperatures, memes and videos that are published on social networks have also served to show that there are areas in the country where the heat has not given anyone a break.
Videos like the one published by the user @QuePocaMadre_mx humorously take the heat registered in the country. In the clip you can see how you can cook an egg and heat tortillas with a frying pan. While this is just a joke, the reality is that the prolonged sun exposure could generate adverse reactions in our health.
States such as Sinaloa, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas have reported maximum temperatures of 45 degrees Celsius; Despite the rains that are beginning to occur in a few states, the temperature will not drop, since it is estimated that the heat wave in the country extends at least one more week.
According to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the current situation in the national territory will last 15 days and, as of July 1, it could register another heat wavereported scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change.
The researcher, Graciela Binimelis de Raga, from the Micro and Mesoscale Interaction Group, indicated that the frequency of these phenomena per decade has increased systematically. “Let’s note that a large part of the national territory registers severe and extreme drought.”
In addition, he commented that there are significant impacts on the health of people, since dehydration and heat strokes can occur in infants and older adults. In addition to the consequences on the agricultural sector for damage to crops.
Why is it getting so hot?
According to the researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Atmosphere Sciences and Climate Change (ICAyCC), Francisco Estrada Porrúa, there are several factors that influence current temperatures, but the most significant is the phenomenon of “The boy”.
“On the one hand, we have the natural variability, that after spending three years in a moderate La Niña event, we went to conditions of The boy, which is associated with this type of temperatures in our country. On the other hand, global climate change also contributes to extreme temperatures that in the last century have become more probable and intense”, he pointed out.
The academic commented that The boy produces hotter and drier conditions in South America, with droughts in some areas and heavy rainfall in others and influences the weather, such as increased rainfall in USA, Mexicoand reduced rainfall in the western Pacific.
In this vein, he mentioned that the probabilities of very hot events increased significantly along with the extreme rainfall.
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