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"Now should be South America’s bleak midwinter, but several parts of the
continent are experiencing an extraordinary unseasonal heatwave that scientists
believe offers a disturbing glimpse of a future of extreme weather.
Argentina’s riverside capital, Buenos Aires, this week recorded its hottest 1
August in 117 years.
Cindy Fernández, a weather bureau spokesperson, said her country was facing “a
year of extreme heat”.
“Winter temperatures are way off the scale – not only in the central region
where Buenos Aires is but also in the northern regions bordering Bolivia and
Paraguay where temperatures reached between 37C (98.6F) and 39C (102.2F) this
week.”
Hundreds of miles to the west, in Chile, temperatures rose even higher, towards
40C.
“July was the planet’s hottest month since records began and the Andes are now
experiencing their own thermal ordeal,” announced the Santiago-based newspaper
La Tercera. “Although we’re in winter, Chile is living through a little hell of
its very own.”
Raúl Cordero, a climate expert from the University of Santiago, told the
newspaper that as far as temperatures and rainfall were concerned, “Chile’s
winter is disappearing”.
“It’s not surprising that temperature records are being set all over the world.
Climate change ensures these records are broken more and more frequently,”
Cordero said."
Via Doug Senko.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
