Nine of Brazil’s 27 state capitals are expected to break temperature records on Thursday.
In one of them, Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso, a maximum of 43 degrees is expected. In Palmas, capital of Tocantins, thermometers will reach 40 degrees, according to meteorologists.
Last Sunday, four capitals broke their records, including Rio de Janeiro, which was very close to 40 degrees, and Curitiba, traditionally the coldest capital in Brazil, which exceeded 33 degrees.
As temperatures are five degrees above average, Inmet, the Brazilian meteorological institute, launched a “great danger” alert on Monday the 18th. In Brazil, as in the entire southern hemisphere, winter has just ended, the most hot of the country. history, since 1963, in the cities of São Paulo and Cuiabá, among others.
However, according to Inmet, what causes the heat wave is an atmospheric blockage, which impairs the formation of rain and facilitates the increase in temperature. This blockage, a kind of “heat bubble”, should be released on Wednesday, causing a drop in temperature.
The arrival of a new cold front in the Southeast, the region where São Paulo and Rio, the most populated cities, are located, and the formation of a new extratropical cyclone in the South promise to interrupt the suffocating heat wave that is hitting these two regions. from Brazil.
But meteorologists warn that the mild feeling of late winter and early spring, as expected at this time of year, is no longer possible. There will be refreshments and nothing more: the heat is here to stay.
Source: TSF
