Historic Snowstorms in Patagonia
... bury sheep alive and leave entire cities without power
Large parts of Patagonia (southern South America) are experiencing one of their “cruelest winters of the last 20 years,” reads the opening line of infobae.com article.
Over the past month, record-breaking temperatures of up to 23-below have been a regular occurrence ACROSS the lower regions of Argentina and Chile. Intense Antarctic cold fronts riding anomalously-far north on the back of a meridional jet stream flow have accompanied the freeze, and have delivered brutal accumulations of snow (of 5+ feet).
The region’s Meteorological Service have issued a strong of alerts of late for “persistent snowfall” — particularly in southern and central Mendoza, central and western Neuquén, and central of Río Negro.
Livestock farming is in a “critical state”, reports infobae.com.
This week, the Rio Negro government was forced to declared a State of Emergency and/or an Agricultural Disaster in 6 regions, which means farmers in the western province are now “exempt from taxes for a short time”.
This was the scene in Río Negro:
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