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I know it can't even be considered as cold for most of people but, at least for a second, think you have lived your entire life over 30C and all of a sudden you face highs around 15ºC to 20ºC on AMAZON, and highs below 10ºC within tropical areas(20ºS)...What do you think about?? Strong one??
It's hard for me to put it into perspective because I don't know much about interior South American climates (also how high these places are above sea level) but that high of 9C in Corumba is impressive. I still think the low of 8C at 7 degrees S (or whatever exactly it was) in your other thread is more impressive though. Would people even have cold-weather clothes in those places? Would they think this was problematic cold or just a refreshing change from the weather they normally get? Were these record lows or just temperatures you can expect once every 20 years or so?
For tropical locations, definitely very impressive. I imagine people there have little to no warm clothing, so temperatures below 10C must feel like being in a freezer for them.
It's hard for me to put it into perspective because I don't know much about interior South American climates (also how high these places are above sea level) but that high of 9C in Corumba is impressive. I still think the low of 8C at 7 degrees S (or whatever exactly it was) in your other thread is more impressive though. Would people even have cold-weather clothes in those places? Would they think this was problematic cold or just a refreshing change from the weather they normally get? Were these record lows or just temperatures you can expect once every 20 years or so?
All places listed above lie under 100 meters above sea level...
At least once a year the cold air reaches Equatorial Brazil through Paraguay river but not so cold like that.
That high of 14C in Rio Branco was a record. Not sure about Corumbá but all the way down to Paraguay and Bolivia, several cities had very low highs. Another city called Ponta Porã, some 250km South of Corumbá had a high of only 6C and a low of 4C at the same day.
I remember it caused 9 deaths here in Brazil and 70 more in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. People here have no protection to situations like that.
2010 July wasn't very impressive (in fact last July was colder). In the other hand, in 2007 we had one of the coldest July's in the last fifty years or so (was the July of the famous snowfall).
What about the southern cone there must of been impressive nightime lows.
It didn't get very cold there, even though it snowed in 12 provinces of Argentina, including Buenos Aires.
Some temps and events:
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires(capital): Low of -1,5ºC with frost in the morning.
Salta: Significant snowfall(the first one since 1999 according to SNM) as seen on the video below
BOLIVIA
Tarija: First snowfall in 15 years...
And I got some data from the Bolivian Meteorology Service site, of the coldest days of tha polar blast(temps in Celsius):
Riberalta(11ºS)-141m
July 16th: 12,4/17,4
July 17th: 9,3/16,4
July 18th: 9,4/21
July 19th: 10,2/27,4
Santa Ana Del Yacuma(13ºS)-144m
July 16th: 11,6/15,5
July 17th: 8,5/13,3
July 18th: 9/19,1
July 20th: 8,1/23,4
Trinindad(14,5ºS)-156m
July 16th: 11,3/16,2
July 17th: 7,3/12,3
July 18th: 7/17,3
July 19th: 8,3/21,2
^^^Just imagine how much colder these tropical places could get if South America and Antarctica were connected via a land bridge or if the Antarctic Peninsula joined up with the southern cone of South America.
We may laugh here in the U.S. but 50 F or 10 C is downright dangerous if you only own shorts, t-shirts, have no central heating, no warm water, no electricity, and are not acclimated to the climate. Remember many people there live in poverty (Although there are wealthy pockets as well).
must be a big deal. esp in the mass media. A high of "just" 7C below average here in Indonesia means hot thread in the local forums.
Imagine when a "cool" 25C high happened in Jakarta last July (avg high is 31-33 C) : even the comments in our local forum were "wow, thats like the film the day after tomorrow" and "wonder when will the first snowfall here (in Jakarta)?" or in Bandung (avg high 27-28C) 18C was said "polar"
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