OR16 million people remain on alert in the northeastern United States for tornadoes and a total of 110 million are at risk in the country due to the severe weather conditions, which in the last few hours have killed at least 23 people.
The tornadoes hit the area known as The Great Plains.
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and this monday 16 million people remained on alert for tornadoes in Washington DC, parts of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
Storms and tornadoes caused at least 23 deaths over the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, including four children. The deaths occurred in Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama.
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The risk of storms remains in force in Texas.
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“He expressed his condolences for the lives lost in each state” and ordered that “federal support be provided as necessary,” he said in a brief statement.
More than 450,000 homes and businesses in the central, southern and eastern United States remained without power after weekend storms
Meanwhile, More than 25 million people remain under heat alerts, mainly in eastern and southern Texas and central and southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
Over the next few days, temperatures could exceed 48.3 degrees Celsius in Laredo, Texas, and 45 degrees in Austin and Houston.
Mexico celebrates a week with temperatures that exceed 45 degrees
“During this Monday, the third heat wave of the season will continue over the Mexican Republic, so an extremely hot environment is forecast with maximum temperatures above 45 degrees,” the National Water Commission (Conagua) said in a bulletin. ).
The states that will reach this level are Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Yucatán.
Several people walk with umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun, this Friday in Mexico City (Mexico). The third heat wave of the year in Mexico will bring temperatures above 45 degrees this Friday in almost half of the country’s states, 15 of 32, although there will also be “very heavy” rains, according to the National Meteorological Service (SMN). ).
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The SMN also projected 35 to 40 degrees in Aguascalientes and the State of Mexico, and from 30 to 35 degrees in Mexico City and Tlaxcala.
“Due to the persistence of the heat wave, which is generated by an anticyclonic circulation at medium levels of the atmosphere, the population is recommended to take preventive measures,” the statement warned.
Despite the heat, the SMN also estimated “strong occasional” rains of 25 to 50 millimeters, wind gusts of 70 to 80 kilometers per hour (km/h) and conditions for the formation of whirlwinds or tornadoes.
In addition, “punctually strong” rains are forecast in Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas, and intervals of showers in Aguascalientes, Mexico City, Durango, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla and Querétaro .
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) warned last Wednesday that The country would experience the highest temperatures in its history in the next 15 days.
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