The city of Chubut Esquel was this Tuesday morning the coldest place in the countrywith a temperature of -8.3 degrees, followed by Malargüe, in Mendozawith a temperature of -5.8 degrees but a wind chill of -8.5 degrees, according to the record of the National Meteorological Service (SMN) updated at 7.
In a framework of low temperatures throughout the countrywith a mass of cold air of polar origin, Santa Rosa, the capital of La Pampa, registered -4.9 degrees, while the Buenos Aires cities of San Carlos de Bolívar had -4.2º degrees and Azul -3.2ºC.
Other cities with marks below zero were Venado Tuerto, in Santa Fe, with -2.9 degrees; Olavarría and Tandil, in Buenos Aires, with -2.8 and -2.6 degrees; Rosario, in Santa Fe, with -2.1 degrees; and in the suburbs of Buenos Aires Ezeiza with -1.3 degrees, San Fernando with -1 degrees and Merlo with -0.6º degrees.
At the other end of the ranking, the thermometer in Las Lomitas, Formosa, marked 10.2 degrees and in Tartagal, Salta, 11 degrees, with humidity between 70 and 80 percent.
A mass of cold air of polar origin that has been advancing over Argentine territory since early Monday morning has left thermal marks below 0 degrees in much of the country, the National Meteorological Service (SMN), which warned on Monday that this meteorological situation It will continue until at least next Thursday.
The mass of cold air that since last week has affected all of Argentine Patagonia burst into the central region of the country at dawn on Sunday, causing a decrease in the minimum thermal marks in the region, meanwhile, a second cold air system, this time of polar origin, it entered the region on Sunday night, reinforcing the conditions to generate even lower temperatures.
