Passengers relax inside the skyline car as the sun sets Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, between Churchill and Gilliam, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
The immediate meteorological cause was a high pressure system parked over central Mexico that blocked cooling storms and clouds, then it moved to the U.S. Southwest and is now bringing the heat to the U.S. East, Winkley said.formed Wednesday and is heading to northern Mexico and southern Texas with some rains, which may cause flooding.
Mexico and other places have been dealing for months withA woman and a girl walk along the shore to cool off during the heat wave on the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, on June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)A woman and a girl walk along the shore to cool off during the heat wave on the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, on June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
This heat wave “exacerbates existing inequalities” betweenin the Americas, Izquierdo said, and Kenkel agreed. The night heat is where the inequalities really become apparent because the ability to cool down with central air conditioning depends on how financially comfortable they are, Kenkel said.
And that means during this heat wave Salazar Pérez has been quite uncomfortable.
Félix Márquez in Veracruz, Mexico and Teresa de Miguel in Mexico City contributed to this report.The day celebrating Moscow’s defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 is Russia’s biggest secular holiday. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and others will gather in the Russian capital on Thursday for the 80th anniversary and watch a parade featuring thousands of troops accompanied by tanks and missiles.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry urged foreign countries not to send military representatives to take part in the parade, as some have in the past. None is officially confirmed for this year’s event.AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports all four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights today as Russian forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones.
Ukraine will regard the participation of foreign military personnel as “an affront to the memory of the victory over Nazism, to the memory of millions of Ukrainian front-line soldiers who liberated our country and all of Europe from Nazism eight decades ago,” a statement on the ministry’s website said.Security is expected to be tight. Russian officials have warned that internet access could be restricted in Moscow during the celebrations and have told residents not to set off fireworks.