If you feel that the cold already ‘seeps into the bones’ it is because he winter approaches and with it the first snowfall of the season. In the coming weeks, the presence of the cold fronts and the low temperatures that are already beginning to be experienced in the country could cause the snow fall in several states.
This was announced by the National Water Commission (Conagua) and the National Meteorological Service (SMN), who indicated that as of Saturday October 26 The first falls of snow or sleet are expected on the volcanoes Popocatepetl, Iztaccíhuatl and Orizaba Peakthus inaugurating the arrival of the icy winds.
This is what the weather will be like this weekend
The extended forecast of the National Meteorological Service reported that starting tomorrow, Friday, October 25, and until Monday, October 28, an extensive low pressure channel, in interaction with a trough and a tropical wave, will produce very heavy rains at specific times in the southeast of the country and Yucatan Peninsula.
The rains will be located mainly in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco and Quintana Roo, while fog banks during the early hours of Friday in the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Mexican Central Pacific coast.
For this weekend they are also forecast frost with temperatures from -5 to 0 degrees in the mountainous areas of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua and Durango; as well as minimum temperatures from 0 to 5 degrees for mountainous areas of Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Mexico City, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Veracruz.
Where could it snow in Mexico in 2024?
According to the coordinator of the SMN, Alejandra Margarita Méndez Girón, during the Cold Fronts season 2024-2025 The occurrence of 48 frontal systems is expected and seven winter storms in Mexico.
As for the winter stormsMéndez Girón pointed out that one is expected in November, another in December, two in January and three more in February. He emphasized that, climatologically, the states that could register the greatest drops in temperature and even present snow or sleet in some areas are:
- Chihuahua
- Durango
- Tlaxcala
- Zacatecas
- State of Mexico
- Aguascalientes
- Coahuila
- Gentleman
How many times has it snowed in Mexico City?
According to the National Disaster Prevention Center (Cenapred), due to the geographical location of our country, there are few regions that could experience the snow falljust as we see them in other countries such as Canada and the United States.
However, to the astonishment of its inhabitants, this unusual phenomenon has occurred not once, but three times in the history of Mexico City (CDMX). The first of them took place in 1907, while the second occurred in 1920.
Fortunately, the latter occasion was documented for posterity. That ‘miraculous’ snowfall took place on January 11, 1967when at 2 in the morning it began to snow on Paseo de la Reforma and covered the roundabout of the Angel of Independence and other monuments.
Via @Cuauhtemoc_1521:
The Palace of Fine Arts, the Diana the Huntress and the Independence Column covered in snow during the last snowfall that occurred in the #CDMXon January 11, 1967. Up to 5 cm of snow was deposited on Paseo de la Reforma. pic.twitter.com/0lwbTsfZc0
— Webcams from Mexico (@webcamsdemexico) January 11, 2021
According to Cenapred, snowfall “occurs when the temperature in the atmosphere, at the surface level, is equal to or less than 0 centigradein addition to other factors, such as the wind, mainly its vertical component, humidity”, among several others.
For this reason the probability of snow falling in Mexico City It is again very low, since several factors need to come together, in addition to the cold temperatures, for the country’s capital to be covered in white again.
