Heat wave in the AMBA: another oppressive day is lived with 42 ° thermal and relief will come tomorrow

The

that affects the AMBA and other regions of the center and Mesopotamia is coming to an end.

However, millions of Argentines will still have to endure another day of high temperatures.

Relief is expected starting tomorrow.

The National Meteorological Service (SMN) maintains this Tuesday

for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), part of the north of the province of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Corrientes.

are expected

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At 2:00 p.m., the SMN records showed that it was 35.7 degrees in the City, but due to the humidity, the temperature reached

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Many residents are not only affected by the heat, but also by the power outages that this Tuesday affected thousands of users, after Monday there were peaks of up to 130,000 homes without power in the AMBA.

After the string of days of extreme temperatures, the thermometer will begin to drop starting tomorrow.

The SMN anticipated that there will be some showers in the morning and isolated storms in the afternoon in the City and surroundings, so the minimum will be 25 degrees, but the maximum

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The areas affected this Tuesday by the heat wave, according to the National Meteorological Service.

Thursday brings even better news: although the showers will continue, the minimum would drop to 23 degrees and the maximum will have a ceiling of 29 degrees.

At the end of the hottest summer in Argentine history, the national body also continued with orange alert notices for temperatures that imply a "moderate to high health" effect in the central area of ​​the province of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Córdoba and Tucumán, while yellow level warnings are in effect for Catamarca, a large part of Córdoba, the cities in the south of the province of Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero.

What does a red alert mean?

Twelve days after the issuance of the red level alert for CABA and surroundings, the SMN kept the same warning active today for the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires towns of La Plata, Berisso, Ensenada, Brandsen, Cañuelas, Magdalena, San Vicente, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, La Matanza and Merlo.

The red level, the maximum alert set by the meteorological agency, also applies to the north of the province of Buenos Aires in towns such as Tigre, San Fernando, San Nicolás, San Pedro, Lincoln and Pergamino.

Similarly, in the southern zone of Greater Buenos Aires the affected areas are Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Florencia Varela, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Presidente Perón and Quilmes.

This Tuesday the temperature could reach 37 degrees and relief is expected only tomorrow.

Photo: Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi

The same alert applies in the province of Entre Ríos for Colón, Gualeguaychú, Ibicuy Islands, Tala, Uruguay, Diamante, La Paz, Nogoyá, Paraná, Villaguay, Victoria and Gualeguay, with temperatures ranging between 35 and 37 degrees.

Meanwhile, in Corrientes the red level included today the towns of General Alvear, Paso de los Libres, San Martín, Santo Tomé, Concepción, Curuzú Cuatiá, Mercedes, San Roque and Sauce, with thermal marks around 32 degrees for the arrival of showers and storms.

Also in the south of the province of Santa Fe, it affects the cities of Constitución, Iriondo, Rosario, San Lorenzo, Caseros and General López, with temperatures that will reach 35 degrees.

According to the SMN, the red alert indicates that the temperatures are

, so it is recommended to increase water consumption and not expose yourself to the sun excessively or for hours stations (between 10 and 16).

In the middle of a historic March, which during the first 10 days had "extremely high temperatures in the central east of the country", the SMN also maintained orange alerts for the center of the province of Buenos Aires in towns such as Bolívar, Olavarría and Azul;

the north of Entre Ríos;

the west of Corrientes;

the northeast and center of Santa Fe, the north of Córdoba and the entire territory of the province of Tucumán.

On the other hand, a yellow level alert is in force for the entire province of Catamarca, a large part of Córdoba, the west of Santiago del Estero, and some sectors of the province of Buenos Aires, such as the Buenos Aires coast, a portion of the northwest in Florentino Ameghino , General Villegas and Rivadavia, and the extreme south in cities like Puán, Tornquist and Carmen de Patagones.

In the case of the orange level, the SMN warns that the temperatures "can be very dangerous", especially for risk groups;

while in the yellow level the effect is mild to moderate and the most affected may be boys and girls, and people over 65, with chronic diseases.

With information from Telam

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