The thermal temperature exceeded 42 degrees and almost 70 thousand users were without service in the AMBA

On another day of oppressive heat in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), The thermal sensation exceeded 42 degrees this afternoon, at a time when about 30 thousand users suffered power outages.

At 2 p.m., the thermal temperature reached 42.8º in the City and suburbs of Buenos Aires, when 26,206 Edesur users and another 3,544 Edenor users did not have electricity. some of them for almost a weekas revealed by the National Electricity Regulatory Entity (ENRE).

At 5:10 p.m., the number of users without service reached more than 69 thousand (47,898 from Edesur and 21,548 from Edenor).

The agency explained that this lack is caused by high demand and extreme heat temperatures that affect the entire country, which occurs almost systematically every summer.

The towns in the Conurbano under Edesur concession that were most affected were mostly in the South: Berazategui, Ezeiza, Florencio Varela, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Presidente Perón, Almirante Brown, Quilmes and San Vicente.

In the City, the most affected neighborhoods that continued to have power outages were Almagro, Balvanera, Barracas, Boedo, Caballito, Flores, Floresta, Liniers, Nueva Pompeya, Parque Patricios, Recoleta, San Nicolás, Villa Devoto, Villa General Miter and Villa . Luro.

“Our electrical distribution network is working with a very high demand, facing record consumption demand and high temperatures,” the company said, adding: “In the face of this extraordinary situation there are always specific failures that are being attended to by our technical teams”.

Meanwhile, under the Edenor concession, users in the Buenos Aires towns of General Rodríguez, General San Martín, La Matanza, Malvinas Argentinas, Merlo, Moreno, Morón, Pilar, San Isidro and Tigre, and in the neighborhood . Buenos Aires from Palermo.

That distributor was the one with the fewest affected users. “It is a normal day of operations, the network is not working with problems. The service will be restored throughout the afternoon,” a company source told Clarion. In addition, they clarified that they will not register users with prolonged power outages.

In Liniers, near Floresta, at least 15 families, They remained without power since last Wednesday when the service was cut off around 8 p.m.

“We came with low voltage, the lights flickered and the fans turned down, until last Wednesday it was permanently cut off“said Marga, one of the affected neighbors.

The homes that remained without electricity supply since last Wednesday are located on General Cesar Diaz Street between Bermúdez and Cervantes and the parallel Remedios de Escalada street, at the same height, in at least 15 homes.

“On Friday (the power supply) came back out of nowhere, it was on from 10 at night until 12 and it was cut off again until now. On Saturday it was cut off to the rest of the block,” the woman explained in a chat with Telam.

An outsourced Edesur crew worked at the site this Monday and “they fixed the part of the people who were left without electricity on Saturday, but ours – which we have been without electricity since Wednesday – they did not touch,” he confirmed.

Given the repeated complaints to Edesur, the neighbors did not receive “any response and they all give us a different return time (for the service), while with ENRE “not even a person assists you, it is a little machine that does not allow you to call until within three hours (of the claim being made)”.

Adriana, a resident of Balvanera, said that they remained without electricity or water since last Thursday in a building with 30 apartments, some “with very elderly people and mobility problems.”

“Innumerable claims have been made to both ENRE and Edesur. For each call the company assigns a new claim number, causing the previous one to fall,” said the woman, who questioned being “hostages to the lack of response and the absolute absence of the control organism”.

“We are experiencing serious complications, suffering from very high temperatures and unable to work,” he added.

Through posts on networks, Edesur pointed out that the demand for electricity due to high temperatures is a record throughout the country, and that its crews work day and night to be able to provide the service in all neighborhoods. A way to try to justify the drop in service for several AMBA users.

Early this Tuesday, the National Meteorological Service predicted partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies, probable isolated rains for the south of the province of Buenos Aires, a minimum temperature of 26 degrees and a maximum of 34.

Around midday, the heat wave was strongly felt in the streets of Buenos Aires, where the thermal sensation rose to 38.4º. After 1 p.m., The thermometer reached 41º on another oppressive day. An hour later it rose to 42.8°. In Morón, she climbed to 44.3°.

In the rest of the country, however, the thermal showed even higher levels: Marcos Juárez, in Córdoba, reached 49.7° at 3 p.m.

he red alert level Due to extreme temperatures, it governed the entire Federal Capital and the north of the province of Buenos Aires, including the towns of La Plata, Berisso, and Ensenada. The SMN warns that this level can have a high to extreme effect on health and all people can be affected, even healthy ones.

Meanwhile, the agency predicted rain for the center and south of the province of Buenos Aires, in towns such as Ayacucho, Balcarce, General Guido, Azul, Rauch, Tapalqué, the west of General Pueyrredón, the coast of Bahía Blanca and Monte Hermoso.

For tomorrow, Wednesday, the agency predicts a day with partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies, wind from the northeast sector rotating to the east, then to the southeast, and a temperature that will be between 27 degrees minimum and 37 maximum.

Meanwhile, on Thursday cloudy skies are forecast, showers during the early morning and morning hours, isolated storms the rest of the day, wind from the northeast sector rotating to the east, and a minimum temperature of 26 degrees and a maximum of 33.