Record-setting heatwave bakes US South and Mexico


A scorched corn discipline in Veracruz, Mexico, on 24 June

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The record-setting heatwave that has scorched Texas and northern Mexico for the previous two weeks is forecast to develop throughout the south earlier than cooling off by the 4th of July. The irregular warmth can be unlikely with out the contribution of local weather change.

On 27 June, a lot of Texas and Louisiana and components of different southern states have been below warmth advisories, in line with the US Nationwide Climate Service; abnormally excessive temperatures continued in northern Mexico as effectively. That extends what has been …