Cold front and heat wave collide, bringing high winds and hot temps

Prepare your wardrobe for a assortment of upwind this week: Mexico is acceptable to acquisition contrasting climates acknowledgment to an overlapping acold beforehand and vigor wave. 

According to the National Meteorological Service (SMN), bluish Mexico volition spot thunderstorms and beardown winds, portion the halfway and confederate parts of the state could spot immoderate of the highest temperatures recorded truthful acold this season.

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Throughout the day, acold beforehand no. 39 volition stay stationary successful the northeast, sending beardown gusts of upwind and rainfall to the Baja California peninsula and Sonora. 

By Tuesday, the acold beforehand volition widen implicit the bluish border, bringing acold upwind and imaginable frost to precocious elevation areas of Chihuahua, Durango, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora and Zacatecas.

Meanwhile, a vigor question is expected to bring scorching temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius successful respective areas of the country. The states affected see the following:

Maximum temperatures of 40 to 45 degrees Celsius: Michoacán, Morelos, Guerrero and Oaxaca.

Maximum temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees Celsius: Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Durango, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, southwest México state, Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche and Yucatán.

Maximum temperatures of 30 to 35 degrees Celsius: debased elevation areas of Baja California and Baja California Sur, Aguascalientes, Mexico City, Tlaxcala and Quintana Roo. 

Rain is besides expected successful immoderate states owed to low-pressure channels implicit the Yucatán Peninsula and bluish and eastbound Mexico. Here is the rainfall forecast by state:

Heavy rainfall (25 to 50 millimeters): Tamaulipas, Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas. 

Showers (5 to 25 millimeters): Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, México authorities and Tlaxcala.

Scattered showers (0.1 to 5 milliliters): Coahuila, Zacatecas, Mexico City, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

Authorities person called connected residents of these areas to enactment good hydrated, deterioration long-sleeved, light-colored clothing, debar extended vulnerability to the prima and wage peculiar attraction to children and the elderly.

With reports from El Financiero