Overview
- Mexico’s meteorological service reports Cold Front 28 and its polar air mass covering most of the country, bringing intense rain in Chiapas and Tabasco, dense fog, and a “Norte” with gusts up to 80–100 km/h over the Isthmus and Gulf of Tehuantepec.
- Forecasts call for frigid conditions in northern highlands with lows of −15 to −10 °C in parts of Chihuahua and Durango, while high surf of 3.5–4.5 m in Tehuantepec and 2–3 m along other Gulf coasts prompts coastal cautions.
- Mexico’s civil protection agencies keep nationwide alerts active and urge layered precautions, including securing loose objects, avoiding flooded crossings, and exercising care on fog-prone roads.
- Argentina’s weather service maintains yellow and orange thunderstorm alerts across multiple provinces, warning of frequent lightning, hail, and gusts up to 90 km/h, with isolated storms also forecast for the Buenos Aires metro area.
- A technical failure at an Edenor substation cut power to an estimated four million people in the Buenos Aires region around 14:45, halting subways, disrupting trains and darkening traffic lights, with about 85% of service restored by 15:45; Peru’s La Libertad region seeks an emergency declaration ahead of forecast rains as Mexico monitors an incoming Cold Front 29.