The entrance of a front cold caused a sharp drop in temperature and snowfall on the Chubut plateauaccompanied by regular intensity rains on the Atlantic coast of this district and occasional hail, the local station of the National Meteorological Service reported this Friday.
“A couple of days ago, a very cold and unstable unstable and persistent polar air mass entered from the south that is affecting almost the entire territory with snowfall on our plateau and hail,” described the meteorologist Aldo Sánchez.
The specialist warned that “it is a front that tends to dissipate but will persist for at least 48 more hours and the temperatures more typical of summer will return around the middle of next week.”
In dialogue with Télam, Sánchez explained that “It is a mass that has not been seen for a few years“.
As a result of the phenomenon “in places like Esquel (on the Chubut mountain range), for example, it woke up with zero degrees of temperature and it is likely that at dawn there would be ice cream.”
The particular thing about the event is that in a couple of days the inhabitants of these latitudes went from dressing in light clothes to withstand the heat to sheltering in jackets to avoid a cold.
“It’s quite a phenomenon because this cold mass brought by the south wind is displacing another mass of very warm air that was present for a long time with a lot of heat in northern Patagonia and we should actually observe it as a relief because the temperatures were very high,” he said.
