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BH Civil Defense
The month of October has been hot in the capital of Minas Gerais, which today had the hottest day in its history. Since day 1, the afternoons have registered temperature marks above 32 ° C.
On the 3rd, the city had a heat peak with 36.2 ° C, yesterday it was 36.6 ° C and today the temperature rose even more to 38.4 ° C, which is the highest absolute temperature mark of the entire series. from the National Institute of Meteorology in Belo Horizonte. The highest previous mark until this heat wave had occurred on October 22, 2015 when the Capital was 37.4 ° C. The historic afternoon heat came after the hottest sunrise of the year with a record low of 23, 9 ° C.
The state of Minas Gerais, as well as the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, is going through a severe drought with many weeks of little rain and low humidity that culminated in this very early October in much of the state.
According to Inmet’s record, the last rain episode occurred last month on 9/21, when only 1.6mm was recorded. In September, it rained only 11.6mm. Similar volume to August, which was only 11.5mm. It means that in the last 68 days it only rained 23.1 mm in the capital of Minas Gerais.
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