Hail closes freeway; winter carries on
Heavy rains, thunderstorms, wind, hail and cool temperatures forecast
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Just as many parts of the country had recovered from Cold Front #41, along comes #42.
There was enough hail yesterday on the Mexico City-Puebla freeway that the highways agency Capufe briefly closed a section of it.
Motorists were issued warnings over the course of several hours via Twitter that traffic was heavy, and wet and wintry conditions required extreme caution.
Today, the National Meteorological Service is warning of more to come in 20 states, along with heavy rain, electrical storms and strong winds.
Heavy rains with the possibility of thunderstorms and hail are forecast for State of México, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guerrero, while strong winds with gusts up to 50 km/h are expected in Chihuahua and Coahuila.
Higher regions in Chihuahua and Durango will see temperatures as low as -5 to 0 C while those in Sonora, Zacatecas, State of Mexico and Puebla will find it slightly warmer at 0 to 5 C.
The hot spot in the past 24 hours was Choix, Sinaloa, where a temperature of 35 C was reached; the coldest temperature, -7 C, was recorded in La Rosilla, Durango.
Snow has closed a couple of major freeways in the past two weeks: the Mexico-Puebla highway was shut for nine hours on March 12, and four days later a section of the Durango-Mazatlán was affected by a brief closure.
As Puebla resident Miguel Olivares told Televisa, “the weather is a bit crazy.” But he reminded a reporter of the old saying, “Febrero loco y marzo otro poco.”
February is crazy, and March can be a little crazy, too.
Mexico News Daily
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