With temperatures that exceeded 35 degrees this Friday in the middle of the country, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) declared a heat wave for the city of Buenos Aires and twelve provinces, with peaks above 44 degrees in some locations, while the isolated rains predicted for this Friday afternoon will not make the heat subside and some coolness is expected only for Tuesday morning.
Due to the extreme temperature values that have persisted for days, the SMN declared a heat wave in the north of the country for large sectors of Salta and Jujuy, the north of Corrientes, the south of Misiones, part of La Rioja and Catamarca.
The City of Buenos Aires, sectors of eastern San Juan, northern Mendoza and San Luis, a large part of Córdoba, southern and northern Santa Fe and some towns in the center of the province of Buenos Aires are also under a heat wave. Buenos Aires as Pigüé and Azul, indicated to Télam Cindy Fernández, meteorologist of the SMN.
For a heat wave to be determined, there must be at least three consecutive days with maximum and minimum temperatures above the threshold values for each location.
The ranking of the body that records the temperatures of meteorological observatories throughout the country warned that at 2:00 p.m. the hottest city was Las Lomitas, in Formosa, with 44.2 degreesfollowed by the Salta town of San Ramón de La Nueva Orán with 42.7 and the capital of Santiago del Estero, with 41.8.
Several locations in Corrientes, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, San Luis, Chaco, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, La Rioja, Tucumán, Misiones, Jujuy, Catamarca and the City of Buenos Aires also exceeded 35 degrees in the 2:00 p.m. report.
Meanwhile, the highest thermal sensation was registered in the Chaco cities of Resistencia, with 49.4 degrees, and in Presidency Roque Sáenz Peña with 48.1.
Red alert for CABA and ten provinces
Due to the intensity of the heat, the SMN maintains the city of Buenos Aires and towns in ten central and northern provinces under a red alert, the maximum established.
The agency stated that these thermal marks are considered “very dangerous” and that “can affect all people, even healthy ones”Therefore, it recommends increasing water consumption, not exposing yourself to the sun excessively, less in the central hours of the day (between 10 and 16), avoiding very abundant meals and paying attention to babies, children and people greater.
Storms will not lower the temperature
According to projections from the SMN, starting this afternoon there will be some storms and rain in the center of the country, especially in the Pampas region, but They will not produce a drop in temperature.
This noon the first storms began to register in the north of La Pampa and southwest of the province of Buenos Aires
“Some of these rains can reach the City of Buenos Aires today in the afternoon-night period,” he told Télam Fernández and warned that the probability of rain in the City “is low.”
“If there is any rain, it will be very isolated and the air mass does not change, so warm conditions continue.”pointed out the meteorologist and announced that “relief is not coming.”
In that sense, he added that “perhaps during the time that the rain lasts, the air will be a little cooler, but when the rain ends, the temperatures will rise again to the previous values.”
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“What will happen is that tomorrow it will start with more cloudiness and we will have winds a little more from the east, so it is possible that the maximums will not be as high, around 31 or 32 degrees, but the The day starts very warm with lows between 23 and 24 degrees,” said the specialist.
Due to the mass of warm air that mainly affects the Argentine north and reaches the center of Cuyo and the Pampas region, in the whole of La Rioja and Catamarca the red alert with predicted highs of 42 and 43 degrees for the dayas well as for the northwest of San Juan, north of San Luis, east of Mendoza, south of Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, and a large part of Córdoba and Corrientes.
The city of Buenos Aires and several parts of the Buenos Aires suburbs, where temperatures of 36 degrees have already been exceeded, also continued with a red alert for this long weekend holiday.
The rest of the northern and central provinces of the country were still under weather alert for heat, but with orange and yellow levels that imply a moderate to slight health risk.
Forecast for the next few days
Regarding the forecast for the next few days, Cindy Fernández indicated that “the coolest thing we are going to experience will be next Tuesday morning.”
“There, perhaps, at night, we will be able to open the window and it will give us a breather. But only that day because as of Wednesday we are talking about temperatures well above 30 degrees again,” he warned.
Fernández concluded that “there will be some very temporary decreases but cooler conditions or the heat going away is not going to happen.”
In this spring closure with sweltering heat, the meteorological agency anticipated that A summer with temperatures above normal is expected in the center of the country -particularly in Buenos Aires and La Pampa-, while the current dry conditions will continue with “a high probability” of registering below-average rainfall on the coast and north of Buenos Aires.
