If you feel that you are "melting", there is an increase in temperatures

For this season, a canícula mayor is expected on the national territory due to the fact that there will be fewer tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and the eventual occurrence of the climatic phenomenon El Niño that will cause little rain during the summer, said the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat).

He indicated that with increasing temperatures and decreasing rainfall, the heat wave began this year in the Yucatan Peninsula the south, the southeast and some areas of central Mexico. about 40 days.

Phenomenon that produces greater heat to what is also called summer or drought in the middle of summer, heat is the hottest time of the year and lasts about 40 days, abounded in his blog.

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Why & quot; Canícula & quot;

The name of Canicula was given in the past as it coincides with the visibility in the sky of the Canter constellation with its big star Sirius, to which, due to its high brightness, has been attributed the increase heat.

Without a fixed period of occurrence, in Mexico, it occurs between the months of July and August and, in exceptional circumstances, it may begin in June or extend until September in the central zone. -south of the country, and sometimes also to the northwest. to the northeast, while on the coast the thermometer can go up to 50 degrees Celsius.

The Semarnat reported that, although statistics indicate that the rains start on May 15 and end on November 30, during this period summer with little clouds and few precipitation is presented, It generates a very hot and sensual thermal sensation in most of the country.

He added that the most obvious effects of canicula are observed in the states of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Puebla, State of Mexico, Morelos, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas , Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo and part of San Luis Potosí, according to data from the National Meteorological Service (SMN).

Meteorologists explain that the phenomenon results from the oceans-atmosphere relationship and that it reacts in the country to the wind circulation on the Gulf of Mexico or to small seasonal variations that produce higher temperatures in the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. to the coasts of Guerrero and Oaxaca.

The first hypothesis is the most accepted: a system of high atmospheric pressure, the Bermuda-Azores anticyclone, generally located in the center of the Atlantic Ocean, and high atmospheric pressure systems that involve a "Good weather", that is, a rare cloudiness and a high temperature.