The Chilean Meteorological Directorate issued an alert on Tuesday for four regions of the country due to “Extreme High Temperatures”. The phenomenon, which will be experienced in the Metropolitan Region, O’Higgins, Ñuble and Maule, will establish temperatures above 34 ° and it is expected that they can rise to 36 ° in some areas.
According to the institution, this alert for “Extreme High Temperatures” will be felt in the Valley and Precordillera areas. In this way, this heat wave will range between 34° and 36° in Valparaíso, in the aforementioned areas. The same will happen in the Metropolitan Region, where thermometers are also expected to show up to 36°. Meanwhile, in O’Higgins, the temperature could also reach 36°, as in the Ñuble and Maule regions.
The state of alert in these regions goes hand in hand with the consequences that it could entail with respect to the situation of forest fires and the complication that it could suppose for the combat of these events in said zones.
In its Twitter account, the Meteorological Directorate detailed this alert, which estimates its duration until this afternoon.
#Alert AA11/2022: [06/feb 12:27] Extreme High Temperature Event in areas from the Metropolitan region to the Ñuble region https://t.co/zkpTz1rNYn pic.twitter.com/lt7EDCCEzb
— MeteoChile (@meteochile_dmc) February 6, 2022
