MEXICO CITY — Ten cities in Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday (May 10), amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.
People cover themselves with umbrellas next to others as they walk along a sidewalk during high temperatures, in Mexico City, Mexico, May 9, 2024.MEXICO CITY — 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 Ciudad Victoria, in the northern border state Tamaulipas, across from Texas in the US, the temperature hit a sweltering 47.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday, breaking the previous high set in 1998. Human-caused climate change and El Nino have been pushing up temperatures worldwide and causing deadly heat waves.
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