The National Meteorological Service (SMN) maintained red alerts on Tuesday for “extremely high” temperatures for the province of Santa Fe, in addition to the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), part of the north of the province of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Corrientes, with maximums that will be around 37 degrees.
In particular, the same warning about the south of the province of Santa Fe, which affects the cities of Constitución, Iriondo, Rosario, San Lorenzo, Caseros and General López, with temperatures that will reach 35 degrees.
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Also under red alert are the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires towns of La Plata, Berisso, Ensenada, Brandsen, Cañuelas, Magdalena, San Vicente, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, La Matanza and Merlo. The red level, the maximum alert set by the meteorological agency, also applies to the north of the province of Buenos Aires in towns such as Tigre, San Fernando, San Nicolás, San Pedro, Lincoln and Pergamino.
Similarly, in the southern zone of Greater Buenos Aires the affected areas are Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Florencia Varela, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Presidente Perón and Quilmes. The same alert applies in the province of Entre Ríos for Colón, Gualeguaychú, Ibicuy Islands, Tala, Uruguay, Diamante, La Paz, Nogoyá, Paraná, Villaguay, Victoria and Gualeguay, with temperatures ranging between 35 and 37 degrees.
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Meanwhile, in Corrientes the red level included today the towns of General Alvear, Paso de los Libres, San Martín, Santo Tomé, Concepción, Curuzú Cuatiá, Mercedes, San Roque and Sauce, with thermal marks around 32 degrees for the arrival of showers and storms.
According to the SMN, the red alert indicates that the temperatures are “very dangerous and can affect all people, even the healthy ones”, so it is recommended to increase water consumption and not expose yourself to the sun excessively or for hours stations (between 10 and 16).
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At the end of the hottest summer in Argentine historythe national body also continued with orange alert notices for temperatures that imply a “moderate to high health” effect in the central area of the province of Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Córdoba and Tucumán, at the same time that govern yellow level warnings for Catamarca, a large part of Córdoba, the cities in the south of the province of Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero.
This intermediate alert was applied in the northeast and center of Santa Fe, in addition to several locations in Buenos Aires such as Bolívar, Olavarría and Azul; the north of Entre Ríos; the west of Corrientes, the north of Córdoba and the entire territory of the province of Tucumán.
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In the case of the orange level, the SMN warns that the temperatures “can be very dangerous”, especially for risk groups; while in the yellow level the effect is mild to moderate and the most affected may be boys and girls, and people over 65, with chronic diseases.
On the other hand, a yellow level alert is in force for the entire province of Catamarca, a large part of Córdoba, the west of Santiago del Estero, and some sectors of the province of Buenos Aires, such as the Buenos Aires coast, a portion of the northwest in Florentino Ameghino , General Villegas and Rivadavia, and the extreme south in cities like Puán, Tornquist and Carmen de Patagones.
