They do not rule out that Amazon's smoke reaches Mendoza

From the National Meteorological Service they do not exclude that smoke from fires in the Amazon and affected areas of Bolivia and Paraguay could reach Mendoza in the next days

A flow of the high pressure wind from the north of our country can make the smoke present in the center of the country and in our province I arrived, though very diluted.

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"There is fires in much of South America which include part of northeastern Argentina, in addition to those of Bolivia, Paraguay and the Amazon. This This helps to generate a large mbad of smoke in the area from all fires, "said Cindy Fernández, National Meteorological Service Communications Officer.

"Due to the presence of the north wind, some of this air is transferred to the center of the country, so it is expected that the smoke will also be perceived in the city center. Already today we had visibility reports reduced by the smoke in San Juan, Catamarca, La Rioja, Salta and Jujuy ", explained the meteorologist.

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In case we get smoke in our province, it would be the product of the various fires that are developing in the area known as the Amazonian jungle and that are not the exclusive property of the Brazilian territory.

Fernando Jara, a forecaster of the national meteorological service, and Federico Norte, doctor of meteorology, were also consulted by MDZ and both expressed the same opinion as Fernández, referring to the presence of the north wind as a vehicle of a smoke that, if it happened, would make it much more moderate or diluted.

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