In the midst of the tenth heat wave of the summer, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) maintained the red alert due to extreme temperatures for the city of Buenos Aires (CABA) and municipalities of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and for towns in Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Santa Fe and the center and north of Buenos Aires, although it is forecast that Starting this Wednesday, temperatures will begin to drop and a cold front will arrive over the weekend..
In CABA, the Observatory of Buenos Aires, belonging to the SMN, At 2:00 p.m., he registered a temperature of 35.7 degrees and a thermal sensation of 42.4.
⚠️⚡️ Tuesday morning with rain and #storms of varying intensity in part of the central region.
In the next few hours, the formation of storms will continue in Córdoba and the north of the country, some strong with gusts and hail.
Governs level alert ?
? https://t.co/HR4LGtOKTn pic.twitter.com/tBq39h5TwI— SMN Argentina (@SMN_Argentina) March 14, 2023
Suffocating and historic days
12 days after the issuance of the red level alert for the AMBA region, the temperature according to the 18 o’clock ranking reached 34.1 in the Federal Capital with a thermal of 37.3, while showers and isolated storms are expected tomorrow with a minimum of 26 and a maximum of 32.
The red alert applies to the Buenos Aires towns of Esteban Echeverría, Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Florencio Varela, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Presidente Perón, Quilmes, La Plata, Berisso, Ensenada, Marcos Paz, Brandsen, Cañuelas, Magdalena, San Martín, Hurlingham, Ituzaingó, José C. Paz, Malvinas Argentinas, Moreno, Morón, Pilar, San Miguel, Tres de Febrero and San Vicente.
In Entre Ríos, the red level governs Gualeguaychú, which at 6:00 p.m. leads the ranking of temperatures with 36.1 degrees and 39.7 of thermal sensation, Ibicuy Islands, Tala, Uruguay, Colón, Diamante, La Paz, Nogoyá, Paraná , Gualeguay, Victoria and Villaguay.
The red level also applies in Santa Fe for Constitución, Iriondo, Rosario, San Lorenzo, Caseros and General López.
According to the SMN, the red alert indicates that high temperatures imply a “high to extreme effect on health”, are “very dangerous” and can “affect all people, even healthy ones”, for which reason it is recommended increase water consumption and do not expose yourself to the sun excessively or at central hours (from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.).
waiting for relief
Regarding when this unprecedented heat will end for the month of March, the meteorological agency reported that “towards the weekend we are waiting for the arrival of a cold front that will cause the displacement of the mass of warm and humid air that is now over the center and north of the country.
“We expect relief for Saturday, which will start from the center to the north of the country,” Matías Reinoso, an SMN specialist, explained to Télam.
In turn, he indicated that from this Tuesday until Friday “some isolated phenomena are expected in the provinces of the central strip of the country, such as rains and showers, which may contribute to a moderation of temperatures.”
On this point, he specified: “Although there are still a few days left for the change of air mass, which it will do towards the weekend, starting tomorrow for the city of Buenos Aires and the core area temperatures tend to moderate” .
“The minimums are going to be maintained, but the maximums are going to be moderate. There will be relief during the afternoons,” Reinoso said.
If the forecast is fulfilled, tomorrow the heat wave that has been affecting CABA, the center and north of the province of Buenos Aires, and partially the Litoral and northeast of Córdoba will end tomorrow.
At the country level, this is the tenth heat wave of the 2022-2023 warm season and the second registered in March (from February 28 to March 7).
For a heat wave to be determined, 3 or more days must be recorded with minimum and maximum temperatures above certain thresholds, according to each city.
Although the previous heat wave was interrupted because the minimum temperature on Tuesday the 7th fell below the necessary threshold, the oppressive heat continued and the city of Buenos Aires and its surroundings have been under a red alert since March 2 due to extreme temperatures.
Together with the end of the heat wave, the cessation of the red alert would come and, if the maximum remained around 30 degrees, the warning level would drop to orange or yellow.
Only on Saturday will the greatest relief be felt in CABA with thermal marks that will stop at 26 degrees and on Sunday they will reach 28.
In the middle of a historic March, which during the first 10 days had “extremely high temperatures in the central east of the country”, the SMN maintained orange alerts for the center of the province of Buenos Aires in towns such as Bolívar, Olavarría and Azul; the north of Entre Ríos; and the center and east of Córdoba.
In the case of the orange level, the SMN warns that the temperatures “can be very dangerous”, especially for risk groups; while in the yellow level the effect is mild to moderate and the most affected may be boys and girls, and people over 65 years of age, with chronic diseases.
Meanwhile, a yellow alert is in force for the Buenos Aires coast and part of the center of the province of Córdoba.
Regarding how the weather will continue next week, Reinoso indicated that “the wind could rotate again towards the north sector and increase the temperature, but the intense heat of these days will not return.”
Finally, the SMN specialist remarked: “We already see the periods of heat waves finished.”
