Overview
- The National Weather Service (SMN) projects the season’s second winter storm to develop Jan. 10–12 from a polar trough interacting with the jet stream, affecting wide areas of Mexico.
- Forecasts call for very low temperatures and frost, including lows of -20 to -15 °C in Durango’s highlands and -15 to -10 °C in mountainous Chihuahua, with many central and northern states near -5 to 0 °C.
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain is possible in mountain zones of Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas, with freezing rain risk highlighted for Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Zacatecas.
- A strong Norte event is expected on the Gulf coast with wind gusts of 100–120 km/h on the Veracruz shoreline and seas of 4–5 meters in Tamaulipas, Veracruz and the Gulf of Tehuantepec, alongside heavy to intense rains from Puebla to Tabasco.
- Protección Civil reports a preventive closure on the Agua Prieta–Janos route at Puerto San Luis due to icing and says crews with the National Guard and SCT assisted motorists, as advisories urge cold‑weather precautions and travel caution; in Sonora, cold mornings persist with gradual daytime warming from Sunday.