Galeana, Nuevo León, where roofs have been collapsing under the snow.
In fact, the national Civil Protection office has declared an "extraordinary emergency" in 446 municipalities in 23 states, brought on by cold front No. 34 and the eighth winter storm of the season.
The declaration will make resources available for the emergency supply of food and blankets to an estimated half a million people from Chihuahua in the north to Chiapas in the south.
The cold front´s mass of polar air is covering much of the country, guaranteeing cold to very cold weather for the weekend. Sleet or wet snow are forecast for areas 3,500 meters above sea level in the State of México, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Hidalgo and Veracruz and winds gusting to 70 km/h in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Mountain regions of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas and Nuevo León can expect temperatures to plunge lower than -5 C.
The weather in both Mexico and California has been having adverse effects on fresh produce supplies in the U.S. and Canada. The second-largest food retailer in Canada said last week there would be shortages for three weeks due in part to weather conditions.
Sobey´s said it is struggling to deal with the worst situation in 30 years.
One of the coldest places in Mexico this week was La Rosilla, a community in the Durango municipality of Guaneceví. The temperature dropped two days ago to -17 C.
In Nuevo León, meanwhile, the roofs of many homes in the community of Galeana, located in the south of the state, collapsed under the weight of the heaviest snowfall in 20 years.
Sources: Milenio, CNNExpansión , Canadian Press
One has to recall what happened in 2008-2010, when the Galactic Cosmic Rays (as seen in the Neutron Monitor Graphs) headed up to new highs. The procession of High/Low pressure cells slowed East-West, and began dipping lower in latitudes from Polar to Subtropics. Slow-Motion ("Stuck in Lodi") weather patterns was the end result. What kind of weather one gets is purely a matter of where a region is in the flow of highly displaced Jet Streams, and how fast or slow they progress East/West.
The other effect, lest we soon forget, is the appearance of very low clouds, like the paintings of England in the Little Ice Age remind us.
If Solar Cycle 25 is anything like Solar Cycle 24, the Solar Wind will back off significantly and the magnetic fields will drop like a rock. Even less resistance to incoming GCR's. Besides all that, the outer atmosphere will shrink 30% or more as the Sun's spectrum is shifted towards the Red (lower energy). UV light is reduced, and that is critical for agriculture.
Unseen Energy Round #2.