{"id":68391,"date":"2024-05-27T17:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68391"},"modified":"2024-05-27T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T22:49:33","slug":"mexico-is-about-to-experience-its-highest-temperatures-ever-recorded-as-death-toll-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68391","title":{"rendered":"Mexico is about to experience its ‘highest temperatures ever recorded’ as death toll climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico is about to experience its ‘highest temperatures ever recorded’ as death toll climbs<\/a><\/h3>\n

The extreme heat smothering much of Mexico has killed dozens of people across multiple states<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The sun rises amid high temperatures in Mexico City on Thursday. Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions of people in sweltering temperatures, strained energy grids and resulted in iconic howler monkeys in Mexico dropping dead from trees. (Marco Ugarte\/The Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The extreme heat smothering much of Mexico has\u00a0already killed dozens of people, but the hottest temperatures are yet to come, officials say.<\/p>\n

“In the next 10 to 15 days, the country will experience the highest temperatures ever recorded,” researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0<\/a>earlier this week. They called the heat wave “unprecedented.”<\/p>\n

According to the Weather Channel,\u00a0by early next week, temperatures in\u00a0Veracruz are expected to soar to 37 C,\u00a0Tabasco will be 40 C\u00a0and Mexicali will reach temperatures of 40.5 C.<\/p>\n

Temperatures in the capital, Mexico City,\u00a0could reach a record 35 C\u00a0in the next two weeks, said Jorge Zavala, director of UNAM’s Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change.<\/p>\n

Most of the metropolitan area’s 21 million residents \u2014 accustomed to more temperate weather \u2014 lack air conditioning. Earlier this month, the capital was one of at least 10 cities in Mexico that registered their hottest day on record.<\/p>\n

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A boy dives into the sea on a hot spring day in Veracruz, Mexico, on Tuesday, amid a nationwide drought and heat waves that have sent temperatures soaring across much of the country.\u00a0(Yahir Ceballos\/Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Mexico\u00a0has been reeling from a high-pressure weather phenomenon known as a “heat\u00a0dome,” which has trapped hot air over much of the country, creating record-breaking temperatures that have surpassed 45 C in some places.<\/p>\n

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Mexico is about to experience its ‘highest temperatures ever recorded’ as death toll climbs The extreme heat smothering much of Mexico has killed dozens of people across multiple states The sun rises amid high temperatures in Mexico City on Thursday. Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3000,1737,517,13081],"class_list":["post-68391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cbc-news","tag-extreme-heat","tag-mexico","tag-thomson-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68392,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68391\/revisions\/68392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}