Climate Mexico, May 7: rains and a cold front

for this saturday a new cold front associated with a polar trough is forecast to approach and enter northwestern Mexico and originate winds with gusts of 60 to 80 km/h and dust storms in Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua.

Rain forecast:

Heavy rains with very strong punctuals (50 to 75 mm):

Intervals of showers with heavy punctual rains (25 to 50 mm):

  • Hidalgo
  • Queretaro
  • Puebla
  • Tlaxcala
  • Oaxaca

Shower intervals (5 to 25 mm):

  • San Luis Potosi
  • Guanajuato
  • Mexico state
  • Mexico City
  • Morelos

Isolated showers (0.1 to 5 mm):

  • Coahuila
  • New Lion
  • Tamaulipas
  • Veracruz
  • Tabasco
  • Michoacan
  • Guerrero
  • Campeche
  • Yucatan
  • Quintana Roo

The rains will be accompanied by electric shocks, strong winds and hail fall of different sizes.

A dry line will remain over Coahuila and will interact with a low pressure channel which will extend from the northeast to the center of the country, both systems, combined with the entry of moisture from the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, will produce heavy rains in Hidalgo, QueretaroPuebla and Tlaxcala, as well as winds with gusts of 60 to 80 km/h and dust storms in the Mesa del Norte.

One second low pressure channel in the southeast of the Mexican republicwill generate very strong punctual rains in Chiapas.

In contrast, during the morning minimum temperatures of 0 to 5 degrees Celsius are expected in Baja California, Chihuahua and Durango. Frosts are forecast for Chihuahua and Durango.

Finally, a anticyclonic system in the middle levels of the atmosphere will keep the heat wave over a large part of the Mexican territory, with maximum temperatures above 40°C in 20 states of the Mexican Republic.

Temperature forecast:

Minimum temperatures of 0 to 5 °C are expected in Baja California, Chihuahua and Durango. While, the frost in Chihuahua and Durango.

Maximum temperatures from 40 to 45° in Baja California (north), Sonora (south), Chihuahua (southwest), Coahuila (southwest), Nuevo León (east), Tamaulipas (west), Sinaloa (north), Nayarit (northeast), Jalisco (north), Michoacán (west and south), Guerrero (north), Morelos (south), Zacatecas (south and southwest), San Luis Potosí (south), Veracruz (south), Oaxaca (northeast and northwest), Chiapas (north and south), Tabasco (center and west), Campeche (north and southwest) and Yucatán (west).

Maximum temperatures from 35 to 40 °C in Baja California Sur (south), Durango (south), Colima, Guanajuato (northeast and southwest), Querétaro (north), Hidalgo (north), State of Mexico (southwest), Puebla (north and southwest) and Quintana Roo (west ).

Maximum temperatures from 30 to 35 °C in Aguascalientes, Mexico City and Tlaxcala.

Wind and wave forecast:

Wind with gusts of 60 to 80 km/h and dust storms in Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí and the Gulf of California.

Gusts of 50 to 60 km/h are also expected. in Baja California Sur, Aguascalientes, Jalisco (north), Querétaro, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Oaxaca.

And waves of 2 to 3 meters of significant height on the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula, as well as on the coasts of Jalisco, Colima and Michoacán.

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