As the first heat wave of the season is heading to Poland, heat has been pouring from the sky in Central America for many weeks, and Wednesday was the warmest June day in Mexico’s history.
The temperature has reached unimaginable values, and the heat is not giving up easily.
Extremely high temperatures have been raging there since spring. Particularly extreme weather appeared in May.
In Mexico City, the country’s capital, the temperature reached 51.1 degrees Celsius on May 9, setting a heat record for May for all of North America.
This heatwave has led to power supply problems and caused fires in over 70,000 hectares of forests. But now it has gotten even hotter.
On Wednesday, June 12, in the town of El Cubil in the state of Sonora in northwestern Mexico, the temperature went up to as high as 51.9 degrees Celsius.
Other cities in the state were not better in temperature. The thermometres in Plutarco showed 51.4 degrees Celsius and 51.0 degrees Celsius in Rodolfo Valdes.
These are also the highest June values in the history of the entire country.
The heat takes its toll on both people and animals. Only by May 21, the number of heat victims was 48 and it is growing rapidly. More than 250 howler monkeys also died. People also die from heat strokes and dehydration, among others.
The next days will be a continuation of extremely high temperatures, which in the valleys in the west and north-west of the country will regularly reach 40-45 degrees Celsius, and in places may approach 50 degrees Celsius.
