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The state of São Paulo today registered the highest temperature in its history, according to the official base of Inmet (National Institute of Meteorology). At 2:00 p.m., the Lins automatic station, just over 430 kilometers from the capital, reached 43.2 ° C, exceeding the 43 ° C of Iguape, in 1933.
The record is not yet the final maximum, as the temperature may rise further until the end of the day. The brand is the result of the great and intense heat wave that has swept across Brazil since the end of September.
Today is also the twelfth consecutive day that the state of São Paulo registers the same or higher temperatures 40 ° C, according to Climatempo.
Four of the five highest temperatures ever recorded in São Paulo were verified in 2020, all in the last five days. Now, according to Metsul Meteorologia, the new ranking of the maximums is:
- 43.2 ° C (partial) – Lins, October 7, 2020
- 43.0 ° C – Iguape, February 3, 1933
- 42.8 ° C – Record, October 2, 2020
- 42.4 ° C – Dracena, October 6, 2020
- 42.2 ° C – Catanduva, October 5, 2020
Heat also in the capital
Yesterday, according to measurements from the Mirante de Santana automatic weather station, the city of São Paulo registered a maximum temperature of 36.4 ° C, the fifth highest in the history of 77 years for the month of October, exceeding 35 , 9 ° C verified on Monday (5).
Last Friday (2), the capital of São Paulo reached 37.4 ° C, its highest temperature in 2020 and the second highest in the Inmet historical series, which began in 1943. The absolute maximum temperature record for the city of São Paulo (considering Mirante de Santana as a reference) continues to be 37.8 ° C, registered on October 17, 2014.
The hottest month in history
The heat didn’t just hit São Paulo or Brazil. According to a study by C3S (Copernicus Weather Change Service) published today, September 2020 was the hottest month in the history of the planet, exceeding 0.05ºC in September 2019, which held the previous record.
In Brazil, the heat and dryness prompted Inmet to issue a death risk alert in some cities in the Midwest region. The previous average temperature also influenced the intensity of the fires that devastate the Amazon and the Pantanal.
“This heat wave that has settled in Brazil will be widely studied by the academy because it is rewriting the climatology of temperatures in the country, breaking heat records for more than 100 years,” evaluated meteorologist Josélia Pegorim, from Climatempo.
