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we're so fucked.
Goodbye wild axolotls 😞 (Among all the other bad from this)
I was just in Mexico city this past week
When I was waiting for my flight to come home I tried to find cold water. None of the coolers at any of the stores in terminal B were keeping the water cool at all
All of the chocolate in the 7-11 was melted. It was surreal.
No AC in the airport and it was so hot. This was at 8-11pm when you think it sound stay cooling down.
The rest of the trip was fine, it felt pretty hot but not any hotter then summer usually feels further north. Then again, it's not summer yet...
Any lemmings in Mexico that can speak to the experience of this?
in cdmx. Can confirm it was hot. Pretty dry here right now, though, so if you were out of the sun it was okay.
How is the vegetation? Dry? High fire risk often associated with this kind of weather.
oh mmm I just mean this week during those hot days was quite dry. In general seems okay I think? And we should be hitting rainy season pretty soon here. But I'm pretty city-bound, and I think the places that would probably be affected by this more are a bit north, so could definitely be issues I'm less aware of.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ten cities in Mexico have registered record-high temperatures, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.
The intense heat caused blackouts lasting several hours in some areas of Mexico this week, mainly in the north, and caused classes to be suspended in the central state of San Luis Potosi, which this week reached 50 C.
Human-caused climate change and El Nino have been pushing up temperatures worldwide and causing deadly heat waves.
Mexico’s electricity system regulator issued several alerts this week as demand in some parts of the country exceeded supply.
Business chambers and sector analysts criticized the blackouts, accusing the government of not investing in energy transmission networks or in sufficient generation to cover demand.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who leaves office in October, described the blackouts as “exceptional” and assured that Mexico has sufficient generation capacity.
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