The South American nation this week battled its eighth warmth wave to this point. (Representational)

Buenos Aires:

Argentina broke information for warmth and chilly inside a brief window of simply 5 days this week, with temperatures plummeting a jaw-dropping 30 levels Celsius as a heatwave gave method to historic snowfalls.

A chilly entrance from Patagonia brought on temperatures in Buenos Aires to drop from a excessive of 38.1 C (100.6 levels Fahrenheit) final Sunday to solely 7.9C (46.2F) on Thursday — a file low for the month of February since 1951, the Nationwide Meteorological Service reported.

The bottom ever was 4.2C in 1910.

The South American nation this week battled its eighth warmth wave to this point this summer season with temperatures taking pictures as much as practically 40C (104F) within the heart and north.

However in the identical week, on Friday, snow fell for the primary time since information started within the low peaks of the Sierra de la Ventana mountains some 560 kilometers (350 miles) west of the capital Buenos Aires, with a minimal of minus 4C recorded within the city of the identical title.

File February lows had been additionally recorded elsewhere as a mass of chilly air from the South Pole entered central Argentina after crossing the Andes from neighboring Chile, in line with meteorologist Christian Garavaglia.

In simply 5 days, Buenos Aires’s streets turned from sunny to gray, from individuals wiping off sweat to donning coats.

The “excessive variability” was seemingly attributable to a robust La Nina climate phenomenon, mentioned Garavaglia.

He mentioned La Nina causes the air and soil to be drier than normal, which makes for extra excessive temperature swings.

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