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Climate in Monterrey


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Monterrey is known for its hot weather in summer reaching 40 °C (104 °F) or more for three consecutive months, being one of the warmest major cities in Mexico.

Monterrey has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh). Its weather is temperate in spring and autumn and is hot in the summer. The average high in August is 35 °C (95 °F) and the average low is 23 °C(73 °F). Winters are mild. The average January high is 20 °C (68 °F) and the average low in January is 8 °C (46 °F); temperatures below freezing are rare. Rainfall is scarce, but more prominent during May through September. Monterrey is very extreme in weather change, sometimes reaching 30 °C (86 °F) in January and February, despite the fact that these are the coldest months. Most extreme weather change occurs with rainfall in summer, which changes extreme heat to cooler temperatures and the absence of northern winds in winter, sometimes causing extreme or abnormally high temperatures. Seasons are not well defined, the warm season can start in February and last until September. Snow is a very rare event, although an accumulation of 20 inches (51 cm) in 8 hours occurred in January 1967. The most recent snowfall was in December 2004, on Christmas Eve. Several sleet and ice events have occurred during January 2007, December 2009, January and February 2010 and February 2011, caused by temperatures around −5 °C (23 °F). In April and May 2011 temperatures reached 45 °C (113 °F) or more, causing fires and extreme heat in the city, despite the fact that these months are in spring. During June 30 – July 2 of 2010, Monterrey was hit by the worst natural disaster in the city's history when Hurricane Alex delivered more than 23 inches of rain around 72 hours with areas reaching up to 1 meter of rain during that same period destroying homes, avenues, highways and infrastructure leaving up to 200,000 families without water for a week or more. The amount of water that fell is
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