177

It’s the middle of winter in South America, but that hasn’t kept the heat away in Chile, Argentina and surrounding locations. Multiple spells of oddly hot weather have roasted the region in recent weeks. The latest spell early this week has become the most intense, pushing the mercury above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while setting an August record for Chile.

In Buenos Aires, where the average high on Aug. 1 is 58 degrees (14 Celsius), it surpassed 86 (30 Celsius) on Tuesday.

“South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen,” weather historian Maximiliano Herrera tweeted, adding, “This event is rewriting all climatic books.”

The most extreme conditions have occurred in the southern half of the continent, and particularly in the Andes Mountains region.

These were the hottest places during Earth’s hottest month

Temperatures Tuesday rose past 95 degrees (35 Celsius) in numerous locations, including at elevations of about 3,500 to 4,500 feet in the Andes foothills. In some cases, the temperature crested above 100 degrees (38 Celsius) after leaping from morning lows in the 30s and 40s (single-digits Celsius).

Some places have even reached all-time maximums — surpassing summer temperatures, even though it is winter. This has occurred in locations with 20 to 30 years of climate data available, showing how exceptional this heat is compared with recent decades.

:,) why aren't we taking action?

all 18 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] kinther@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

See you all in the resource wars coming up in the next few years. Gonna be 🔥

[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Literal 🔥

[-] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 year ago

In South America, 100 degrees boils water

[-] autotldr 19 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The latest spell early this week has become the most intense, pushing the mercury above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while setting an August record for Chile.

Temperatures Tuesday rose past 95 degrees (35 Celsius) in numerous locations, including at elevations of about 3,500 to 4,500 feet in the Andes foothills.

Parts of Brazil began to bake in mid-July, establishing record highs for the month as temperatures rose to at least 100 degrees (upper 30s Celsius).

There was another spell of unusual heat during the third week of the month, which brought a slew of July records to Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Weather historian Thierry Goose tweeted that this was an “extraordinary winter heatwave” for Chile as the temperature climbed to 101.7 degrees (38.7 Celsius), a national record for August.


I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

We really are in the age of global boiling

[-] elghoto@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Wtf, it's supposed to be winter down there. I grew up in those areas, and August is supposed to be very cold.

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

It's 16°C here in the UK. It's our summer...

[-] rikudou 7 points 1 year ago

Same in Czechia, some day last week it was 12 degrees. 12 fucking degrees in the middle of the summer.

[-] HowRu68@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah , especially with "El Niño" heating things up now in the Pacific around the end of 2022 .

this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
177 points (95.9% liked)

World News

38563 readers
1029 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS