the maximum in the City would reach 39 degrees

The heat wave does not subside and for this Friday one of the most stifling days of the summer is expected in the AMBA. The City and Conurnabo are under red alert due to extreme temperatures and a maximum of 39 degrees is expected. Meanwhile, thousands of users are still without electricity after a new record in electricity consumption was reached yesterday.

According to data from the National Meteorological Service, this Friday the City of Buenos Aires and surrounding areas will have somewhat to partially cloudy skies. The minimum temperature was forecast at 27 degrees. and the maximum, at 39the highest for these days of intense heat.

The red level of the extreme temperature alert indicates that heat can have a “high to extreme health effect.” According to the SMN, these temperatures are “very dangerous” and “can affect all people, even healthy ones.”

In the midst of this situation, thousands of neighbors remain without electricity in the AMBA. According to ENRE data, at 7:30 a.m.There were 15 thousand users affected by the supply outage (8 thousand from Edesur and 7 thousand from Edenor). Yesterday, the record demand for electrical energy was surpassed, with 29,029 MW, according to the wholesale administrator CAMMESA (Company Administrator of the Wholesale Electricity Market) and there was a peak of 59 users without service.

This Friday there were cuts in the most affected Buenos Aires towns: Tigre, San Fernando, Moreno, Malvinas Argentinas, La Matanza, Morón, Vicente López, General San Martín, Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Ezeiza, Lanús, Quilmes and Lomas de Zamora.

In the City, some residents of the neighborhoods of Núñez, Belgrano, Villa Devoto, Villa Pueyrredón, Balvanera, Pompeya, Villa Soldati, Almagro, Barracas, Boedo, Constitución, Flores, Floresta, Mataderos, Parque Chacabuco, Parque Patricios, Versalles, were affected. Villa Crespo, Villa General Miter, Villa Luro and Villa Santa Rita.

What does the weather have in store for us in the coming days? More calories. The SMN anticipates for this Saturday a day with somewhat partly cloudy skies and a temperature that will be between 26 degrees minimum and (again) 39 maximum.

Meanwhile, on Sunday the sky will be somewhat cloudy and a drop in temperature is expected, with a minimum that will be 22 degrees and a maximum of 30.

High temperatures affect a large part of the country. This Friday, only the southern region of Patagonia (Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego) did not have current alerts for heat. In the rest of the country, there were warnings of red, orange and yellow levels.

In addition to the AMBA, the red alerts cover some towns in Salta, Córdoba, Río Negro and San Luis, a large part of the interior of Buenos Aires, almost all of Catamarca, Neuquén and La Pampa and the entire provinces of La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza.

The National Meteorological Service (SMN) released this week the Quarterly Climate Forecast (PCT) for the next 3 months, which predicts “a greater frequency of extremely high maximum temperatures” in the northwest, north, Cuyo and south of Patagonia, while temperatures will be normal in the provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires and the city of Buenos Aires.

“It is not ruled out, especially at the beginning of the quarter, that towards the extreme north, northwest and center-west of the country a greater frequency of extremely high maximum temperatures may be observed, possibly favoring the occurrence of heat waves with probable heat waves,” indicated the inform.

Regarding rainfall in the February, March and April quarter, the SMN expects it to be above normal over the southern coast, and between normal or above normal in the northern coast, Santa Fe and Córdoba.

Meanwhile, rains will be normal in the northern region and over eastern Patagonia, and below normal in the northwest region, and over western and southern Patagonia.

The National Meteorological Service also issued alerts for storm, rain and strong winds for southern Patagonia and for localities in the southwest of Buenos Aires and the east of La Pampa. The Escalante plateau, Sarmiento, the southwest of Florentino Ameghino, and the plateau and Cordillera of Río Senguer, in Chubut, are on orange alert due to winds from the western sector with speeds between 50 and 75 kilometers per hour and gusts that can reach 110 kilometers per hour.

The same conditions occur in the mountain range and plateau areas of Lake Buenos Aires and Río Chico, in Santa Cruz, where intense rains are also expected.

In this sense, the Güer Aike and Lago Argentino mountain ranges, in the same province, are under orange alert due to heavy rains and accumulated precipitation values ​​are estimated between 30 and 50 millimeters, which can be exceeded from time to time.

The rest of Santa Cruz is also under a rain alert, although at the yellow level, as is Tierra del Fuego, where accumulated precipitation values ​​of between 20 and 40 millimeters are expected.

Meanwhile, the southwest of Buenos Aires is under yellow alert for strong storms that will reach Bahía Blanca, Puán, Villarino, Coronel Dorrego and Monte Hermoso, among other areas, as well as the Pampas towns of Caleu Caleu and Hucal.