Cold front number 18 will extend from the Gulf of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula and the southeast of the country, causing heavy to very heavy rains in Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Chiapas, reported the National Meteorological Service (SMN).
In high areas of Chihuahua and Durango, temperatures below -5°C (degrees Celsius) are expected; in Baja California, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo and Puebla, temperatures from -5 to 0°C.
Meanwhile, in Baja California Sur, Jalisco, Michoacán, Querétaro, Mexico City, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, from 0 to 5°C.
In addition, the cold air mass associated with the front will maintain a strong to very strong “North” event on the central and southern coast of Veracruz, the Isthmus, and the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
During the night, cold front number 19 is expected to enter and its arctic air mass will mainly affect the north and northeast of the country.
The SMN forecasts wind with gusts of 60 to 80 kilometers per hour (km/h) in Coahuila, Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí and a “North” event with wind gusts of 80 to 100 km/h and waves of 2 to 4 meters high off the coast of Tamaulipas, extending during the early hours of Friday towards Veracruz.
Likewise, the possible fall of sleet or snow is expected at maximum elevations in Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.
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