Beyond consulting the weather forecast to know what to wear or whether or not to load with an umbrella, the Meteorological report It is an instrument that has become fundamental for various sectors such as Transport (for heaven, sea and land), agriculture, tourism, disaster prevention, public health and even to carry out military operations.
But if they predict the time of time It could be complex to this, another variant is added: climate change, which has made even more urgent the need to keep up to act and Adopt public policies that reduce disaster risks as alerts on floods, droughts, icy waves, a bad landing and other related phenomena.
In this context, here The weather report for the next few hours in Mexico City this Saturday:
In Mexico City it is forecast a maximum temperature of 29 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 14 degrees Celsius.
As for the rain, The probability of rainfall for this city will be 2% during the day and 4% throughout the night.
In the same sense, cloudiness will be 34% over the course of the day and 14% in the course of the night. While Wind bursts They will reach 39 kilometers per hour in the day and 28 kilometers per hour at night.
Be careful with the sun, ultraviolet rays are expected to reach a level of up to 14.
It could be thought that due to your geographical location and its size, the CDMX would have a uniform subtropical climate but this is not sobecause it has climates ranging from the temperate to the humid cold and the alpine tundra in the highest part of the south.
In general, the weather is warm and tempered in the CDMX around between 22 and 27 degrees; Veranos are characterized by having a good amount of rainwater, being June, August and September the months in which precipitation are most recorded.
During winter, temperatures usually decrease to zero degrees in mountainous areas, such as Adjustment; In contrast, mayors such as Iztacalco, Iztapalapa, Venustiano Carranza and La Gustavo A. Madero They are usually the driest and temperate.
Among the historical records It has to be the last time it snowed in the city was in the year of 1967; While the highest temperature was recorded on May 9, 1998, when the thermometer amounted to 33.9 degrees, while the minimum has been that of -10 degrees occurred on December 10, 1972.
Due to Climate change The capital is very beaten by the constant environmental contingencies, so the Ministry of the Environment (Sedema), in alliance with German cooperation to sustainable development (GIZ Mexico) and the climate initiative of Mexico (ICM), implements a series of actions that revolve around integrated and sustainable mobility; Solar City; zero waste; Sustainable water and rescue management of rivers; Revegetation of the countryside and the city; Air quality and climatic culture.
Mexico is one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world, because due to its geographical location that It makes it creditor to a wide variety of climates is that it has become home for 12% of the species in the world (12,000 of which are endemic).
The country is located in two completely different areas when crossed by the Tropic of Cancer: On the one hand there is the tropical zone and on the other with a temperate climate, however, they intermingle through the oceans and reliefs that surround Mexico giving rise to more times.
Given this, it is not surprising to find that in The highest parts of Chihuahua Temperatures are around -30 degrees, while in the Mexicali desert the thermometer reaches up to 50 degrees.
The country has a warm rainy zone that includes the low coastal plain of the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific; Warm-Hummed and warm sub-humid regions that can be found in coastal plains of the Gulf of Mexico, of the Pacific Ocean, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in northern Chiapas and in the Yucatan Peninsula; Dry climate in the Sierra Madre Occidental and Eastern, the high basins of the Balsas and Papaloapan rivers, parts of the Isthmus of TehuantepecYucatán and Chiapas; temperate zones, mostly the territory north of the Tropic of Cancer; and semi -desert, north of the Altiplano.
The average time of the country is 19 degrees, however, there are cities like Mexicali, Culiacán, Ciudad Juárez, Hermosillo, Torreón, Saltillo or Monterrey where high temperatures are really extreme.
When talking about the maximum and minimum record temperature in Mexico you have to San Luis Río Coloradoa city located in Sonora but bordering the great altar desert of Baja California, ascended to the 58.5 degrees on July 6, 1966; In contrast the minimum temperature was recorded on December 27, 1997 in the Municipality of Madero in Chihuahua, with -25 degrees.
Experts say that due to climate change the nation will suffer in the future a decrease in annual rains and a considerable increase in temperatures; In addition, great affectations have been recorded to farmers and ranchers due to droughts or severe floods of recent years; While in times of heat there has been a rise in the number of environmental contingencies in the main cities such as the CDMX or Monterrey.
