As reported by the Weather Prediction Center, a powerful storm threatens to bring a potentially devastating combination of snow and ice to the Midwest and southern United States.
Nearly 90 million people are under winter weather advisories stretching from the Rocky Mountains to New England.
“Right now, the forecast is that ERCOT will have access to 15,000 megawatts of power available even at peak demand. Therefore, ERCOT is well prepared for current conditions, but remains flexible in order to respond to the needs of energy demand,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Similarly, it indicated that power outages may occur due to circumstances unrelated to the capacity of the network, including falling trees or icy power lines.
In the Midwest, the governors of Missouri and Oklahoma declared states of emergency through Thursday due to the impending storm.
“The winter storm is expected to include a mix of freezing rain, sleet, snow, strong gusty winds and low temperatures across the state beginning Wednesday, which may lead to power outages,” said Oklahoma Governor, Kevin Stitt.
The fifth winter storm, which developed this Tuesday in northwestern Mexico , will cause a marked drop in temperature in the next few hours , isolated rains and strong gusts of wind in the states of that region of the country, reported the National Meteorological Service (SMN). ).
In addition, it will create the conditions for the fall of sleet or snow in the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Baja California, which will gradually spread during the first hours of Wednesday towards the Sierras of Chihuahua and Sonora.
In a statement, the SMN predicted frost for Wednesday morning in the states of Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Coahuila, State of Mexico and Guanajuato.
In addition to Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala and Zacatecas.
He also pointed out that “an environment will be generated from very cold to icy in entities in the northwest and north of the country, as well as from cold to very cold in high areas of the states that make up the northern table and the central table.”
“There will be conditions for the fall of sleet or snow in mountain areas of Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa and Sonora, extending during the early hours of Thursday towards the mountains of Coahuila and Nuevo León,” the agency said.
He also warned that minimum temperatures of -15 to -10 degrees Celsius will be recorded in mountainous areas of Chihuahua and Sonora; -10 to -5 degrees in mountainous areas of Baja California, Coahuila and Durango and -5 to 0 degrees in mountainous areas of the State of Mexico and Zacatecas.
While temperatures from 0 to 5 degrees Celsius will occur in the mountains of Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala and Veracruz.
Given this scenario, the National Meteorological Service recommended that the population avoid prolonged exposure to the cold environment and sudden changes in temperature, as well as wear warm clothes and pay special attention to children, the elderly and the sick, in addition to attending to the indications of the Civil Protection authorities of your locality.
The SMN recalled that the weather conditions in the northwest, north and northeast of the country will be caused by the fifth winter storm, Cold Front number 28, which will enter the north of the territory and its associated polar air mass on Wednesday.