Overview
- Mexico’s weather service reports the front extending over the Yucatán Peninsula with strong to locally heavy rain in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche, plus showers in Puebla, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
- The polar air mass behind the system is dropping minimum temperatures to between -5 and 0 °C in high elevations of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Veracruz, with frost risk in highland zones.
- A pronounced norte persists with gusts of 70–90 km/h in Oaxaca and Chiapas and 50–60 km/h along Gulf coasts from Tamaulipas to Quintana Roo, with rough seas expected.
- Veracruz activated an ‘Alerta Gris’ for an explosive norte, the state forecast center warned of 80–100 km/h gusts for the Veracruz–Boca del Río area, and the Universidad Veracruzana suspended in‑person classes in Xalapa, Veracruz–Boca del Río and Coatzacoalcos–Minatitlán.
- In parallel forecasts, Spain’s Galicia expects evening rain and coastal gusts up to about 62 km/h, while Argentina’s national service reports no alerts today and projects a cold front bringing isolated storms to Patagonia and central regions toward the weekend.