Overall Orange alert Drought for Central America, Mexico-2024
in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 3 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1016963
Name: Central America, Mexico-2024
Glide number: DR-2024-000076-BLZ
Countries: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua
Start Date: End of Feb 2024
Duration: 117 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 302011 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Caldo estremo, la strage di scimmie in Messico2024-06-08T06:55+0200.

Strage di scimmie in Messico per il caldo record: cadono dagli alberi come mele - Il paese sudamericano, in questi giorni, è stato colpito da un fenomeno meteorologico noto come cupola di calore: si forma una area stazionaria di alta pressi
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29 mag 2024, 15:30 Lorenzo Badellino Cronaca meteo. Caldo record nell' ... 2024-05-29T16:15+0200.

Caldo record e siccità in Messico. Nello scorso weekend il territorio messicano è stato interessato da una eccezionale ondata di caldo che ha portato la colonnina di mercurio a segnare un picco record di 34,7°C a Città del Messico . Il valo
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Strage di scimmie in Messico per il caldo record: cadono dagli alberi ... 2024-05-24T13:00+0200.

Roma, 24 maggio, 2024 – Una ondata di caldo estremo , la terza delle cinque previste nel periodo che va da marzo a luglio, sta soffocando il Messico e ha provocato la morte di decine di persone, 22 finora , e di centinaia di scimmie urlatri
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Mexico: Heat wave kills several people, hotter days ahead2024-05-24T07:18+0200.

in Mexico has killed dozens of people, according to the Health Ministry, with temperatures forecasted to rise further. Meteorologists say a known as a "heat dome" has trapped hot air over the southern Gulf of Mexico and northern Central Am
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),