Winter 2016 thread (Southern Hemisphere) (august, NYC, northern, snowy)

[Noodleman556]

Originally Posted by Joe90

That's impressive. Any idea how often it snows there? There's barely any snow on the mountains around here at the moment. They look more like December than June.

A cold day here, with the forecast high of 16C tuning into a cloudy 11C maximum.

fairly rarely I believe, once every 2-3 years I suppose, JGtheone may be a better one to answer that.

[Ethereal]

Southern hemisphere example of a "polar vortex":

[Ethereal]

Even colder now (12:30am) in subtropical Australia:

East coast:


West coast:

[ghost-likin]

Convective core between northern Argentina and southern Paraguay.
Cold of 0°C in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul this morning.
South-central Argentina below zero: Bariloche with -7 ° C!

[ghost-likin]

Models showing why all cold and snow in Northwestern Argentina,an upper Low there are also causing a much below average for much of west-central Argentina,Southeast Bolivia and Western Paraguay,who is divided between cold west and warm east.

[marlaver]

Snowy days in the west and centr of the country. Photos:

Talampaya National Park, San Juan province:



In a normal day, for comparison:



La Alumbrera, Catamarca:



Chilecito, La Rioja:



Also in the chilean desert:

[marlaver]

Today in Cordoba and San Luis sierras:

La Cumbrecita, Córdoba:







Valle de Pancanta, San Luis:



All credits to foro.gustfront.com.ar

[lab276]

Top of 11.7C on the 27th, Coldest high temp since 1996. Still plenty of time until 9am though, so that could go up.

But I'm in Hong Kong right now and I've never experienced such mugginess. I had a bottle of water at room temperature and dew was forming on it!

[ghost-likin]

This month was most below normal for South-Western and Southern region,the cold wave in the early of month have a great part on this:



There are an cold air mass coming,but it will most affect western regions of Argentina,Paraguay and southeastern Bolivia,and looks like it will be caused by another low pressure in Western Argentina.

at same time looks like Southern Patagonia will finally get some cold and snow in early July,still early but looks very cold,maybe -15/-20C low for some places,this cold in Southern Patagonia may be cause by a low pressure east of Antarctic peninsula,who is "sending" cold from Antartic to there,causing an strong movement on the jet stream into Patagonia.



Satellite image of the Low who caused Cold and Snow in Western Argentina last week as Marlaver posted:

[Warszawa]

Conosur as much less seasonal lag than North America, so the temperatures in June and July are probably the lowest they'll see, whereas in NYC you often get the coldest tempreatres in February