Mexico heat wave melts temperature records in ten cities, including Mexico City

11/5/2024 16:28

        Ten cities in Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.
        
        In the normally temperate high-altitude capital of Mexico City thermometers on Thursday peaked at 34.3 degrees Celsius , a tenth of a degree higher than the record hit just a month earlier.
        
        Neighboring Puebla broke its previous record of 34.3 C - set in 1947 - when it reached 35.2 C on Thursday.
        
        The intense heat caused blackouts lasting several hours in some areas of Mexico this week, mainly in the north, and caused classes to be suspended in the central state of San Luis Potosi, which this week reached 50 C.