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The country will become the hottest spot on the planet this week and Buenos Aires hopes to reach up to 42 degrees
Argentines have set aside their political disputes to unite in a single request: let it rain, and very soon. More than a wave, the heat tsunami that plagues the country has little precedent and hints at a more worrying future as a consequence of the climate change.
The city of Buenos Aires It was an oven last Tuesday. The 41.1 degree made the capital of Argentina in a kind of new Sahara, with the aggravation that a good part of the day 700,000 users stayed without electrical power for an unusual cut. The only superior meteorological experience had taken place 62 years ago, when the 43.3 degrees. At that time it was considered a true anomaly that had had as a precedent that flamboyant day of 1906. But those exceptionalities could soon become a rule of the summer in a city with little green space, dominated by asphalt and cement despite rising from facing the river of La Plata.
A preview of what life in Buenos Aires could be will be known in the next few hours because 42 degrees have been forecast. “It is not surprising that Argentina can be the hottest corner of the planet during some hours of the day Thursday and Friday, “said The World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Without going out to the streets
Daily life has been profoundly altered in urban spaces. People avoid going outside or drag their feet wearily pushed by the puffs of hot air. The WMO warned in turn about the consequences that these circumstances have on health, water and energy supplies, and agriculture.
The National Metereological Service reported that high temperatures, above 40 degrees, will be felt during the next few days in the central areas (43 degrees were caressed in the province of Córdoba) and north, where the highest levels in South America will be recorded, along with Colombia. Uruguay, Paraguay Y Brazil they were another of the most intense outbreaks.
#Argentina‘s #heatwave is impacting health, energy and water supplies, agriculture (and more)
It reached 41.1°C in the capital Buenos Aires at 1600 yesterday, per @SMN_Argentina
Córdoba recorded temperature of 42.5°C#Climatechange increases intensity and frequency of heatwaves pic.twitter.com/LHwrXniQIx— World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) January 12, 2022
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“It’s not the heat wave, it’s deforestation“. The meme it has circulated frequently on social media. The same WMO has recalled that the unprecedented scenario is not alien to climate change. The organism, dependent on the HIM-HER-IT, cited an ‘Annual Global Perception Survey’ carried out by the World Economic Forum and includes an acknowledgment of the mutations that have been leaving their indelible marks. “Extreme weather and loss of biodiversity and the collapse of ecosystems are considered three of the ten main global risks by gravity in the next 10 years “.
In this context, the Government of Argentina declared last Wednesday the “igneous emergency” in the entire territory for a year due to the “serious threat” posed by the “massive fires and repeated. “The Ministry of the Environment has detected three worrisome foci in the provinces of Buenos Aires, San Luis (center) and the Patagonian Río Negro.
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