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A series of deadly heat waves are sweeping across Mexico, with experts warning the worst may not yet have come.

Jorge Zavala Hidalgo, director of the Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Change, described the country’s current weather as “unprecedented” and said people are likely to experience temperatures “that they have never experienced before.”

A statement shared by Mr Zavala Hidalgo’s group and the Climate Change Research Programme, both part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), also stressed that the Latin American country is likely to experience the “highest temperatures in the history” will experience. or 15 days.

Weather Channel forecast temperatures will continue to rise in the coming days, reaching 40 degrees Celsius in Tabasco and 40.5 degrees Celsius in Mexicali.

In Mexico City, where most homes do not have air conditioning because the capital traditionally has a temperate climate, the mercury could reach a record 35 degrees Celsius in the next two weeks, Mr Zavala Hidalgo said.

The capital already came close to the sweltering temperature on May 9, when it broke the historic record and reached 34.3 degrees Celsius.

Elsewhere in Mexico, the northeastern state of San Luis Potosi recorded a temperature of 49.6 degrees Celsius.

Heat-related causes, including dehydration and heat stroke, killed 22 people in Mexico alone between May 12 and 21.

Since the start of the hot season on March 17, 48 people have died due to extreme temperatures.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador described this year’s heat as “exceptional” and said at a press conference: “It is a very regrettable natural phenomenon linked to climate change.”

Mexico is currently experiencing the third of five heat waves that experts predict will occur between March and July.

Weather conditions are worsened by the “heat dome” gripping much of the country, a weather phenomenon in which the atmosphere traps hot ocean air as if held by a lid.

The high pollution further exacerbates the already difficult weather conditions in urbanized areas such as Mexico City.