Mexico.- The weather forecast of the National Meteorological Service (SMN) foresees for this Sunday, February 20, 2022 heavy rains and north wind in southeastern Mexico due to the cold front number 30.
This day the cold front will extend over the center of the Gulf of Mexico, in interaction with a low pressure channel, will cause heavy punctual rains in Oaxaca and Chiapas, and rains with showers in Veracruz and Tabasco.
The mass of cold air associated with the front will begin to modify its thermal characteristics, forecasting a rising temperatures during the afternoon, however, the cold environment to very cold with frosts at dawn in high areas of the northwest, north, west, center and east of the country.
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Likewise, a north component wind will remain in Veracruz, the Isthmus and the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
For its part, the subtropical jet stream, in interaction with a cold-core vortex over northwestern Mexico, will cause rains with intervals of showers in that region, being punctual strong in Chihuahua, where the possible sleet or snow fall in the south of that state.
In addition, they will generate winds with gusts of 70 to 80 km/h and dust storms in Chihuahua and Durango.
Finally, the entry of moisture from the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will cause isolated rains with electric shocks in western, central and southern Mexico, as well as in the Yucatan Peninsula.
rains for today
Intervals of showers with strong punctual rains (25 to 50 mm): Chihuahua, Oaxaca and Chiapas.
Intervals of showers (5 to 25 mm): Sonora, Sinaloa, Veracruz and Tabasco.
Isolated rains (0.1 to 5 mm): Baja California, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guerrero, Querétaro, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Puebla, State of Mexico, Mexico City, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
Possible fall of sleet or snow: Chihuahua (south).
Minimum and maximum temperatures
Minimum temperatures from -5 to 0 °C: mountainous areas of Baja California, Chihuahua and Durango.
Minimum temperatures from 0 to 5 °C: mountainous areas of Baja California Sur, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Puebla, State of Mexico, Ciudad from Mexico and Oaxaca.
Frost: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Durango, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, State of Mexico, Mexico City and Oaxaca.
Maximum temperatures from 35 to 40 °C: Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Campeche.
Maximum temperatures from 30 to 35 °C: Tamaulipas, Veracruz (south), Sinaloa, Nayarit, Morelos, Puebla (southwest), Tabasco, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
wind and waves
Wind with gusts of 70 to 80 km/h and dust storms: Chihuahua and Durango.
Wind with gusts of 50 to 60 km/h and dust storms: Baja California, Gulf of California, Sonora, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
North component wind with gusts of 60 to 70 km/h: Isthmus and Gulf of Tehuantepec, gradually decreasing.
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North component wind with gusts of 50 to 60 km/h: Veracruz coast (south), gradually decreasing.
Waves from 1 to 3 meters high: Gulf of Tehuantepec.
With information from the National Water Commission (Conagua).
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