by he “oven” what the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area became during the last two weeks due to extreme temperatures start to fade and even cool slowly over the next few days, since temperatures, according to the forecasts of the National Meteorological Service (SMN), will drop considerably. In any case, a red alert for extreme heat is still in effect in four northern provinces.
Although this Sunday the wind chill reached 40 degrees, when a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 33 had been predicted, at night, the drop in temperature began to be felt. The rains announced for more than half of this Monday would help make the week somewhat cooler than the previous one.
For this day, the SMN anticipated that The thermometer will range between 18 and 26 degrees.with a 40 to 70 percent chance of precipitation from morning to afternoon.
On Tuesday, the minimum of 15 degrees appears as the lowest point of the extended forecast, while the maximum of 28 and 29 degrees are the other extreme of what is expected in terms of heat.
On the contrary, the SMN issued this Sunday a red level alert for extreme temperatures for the provinces of Corrientes, Misiones, Formosa and Chaco, while others six provinces are under orange alerts and yellow for storms.
The red alert for heat applies to the center and south of Misiones, almost the entire province of Corrientes, with the exception of the western sector, and the east of Chaco and Formosa.
The red alert level implies that temperatures can have a “high to extreme effect on health.”
According to the SMN, these are “very dangerous” temperatures that “can affect all people, even healthy ones.”
In addition, in the south of Jujuy, a large part of Tucumán and the north of Santiago del Estero and Catamarca, an orange alert is in effect for storms, which do represent “risks for society, life, property and the environment.”
