Extreme heat and drought: Argentina suffers its most scorching summer ever
batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/with-extreme-he...Posted Mar 10, 2023, 3:28 AM UTC
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Submission Statement:
- Argentina is enduring the hottest summer on record.
- 9 consecutive heat weaves instead of the usual 4.
- Heat weaves lasted for 7 days each instead of the usual duration of 3 days.
- A red alert covers a third of the country.
- Intermittent power and water shortages affect half of the population.
- "Argentina is suffering a climatic scenario unprecedented in modern agriculture," warned the Rosario Stock Exchange in its latest report.
- The combination of high temperatures and drought led to forest fires and has dramatically affected agricultural yields in Argentina, a major food exporter.
- Argentina is one of the largest food exporters in the planet. This will contribute to the food shortages and price increase world wide as a result of the war in Ukraine.
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That's fake news, frequency and duration of heatwaves COULD DOUBLE by the END of the century, IF we don't go net zero by 2050....../s
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Argentina this year is an outlier. Those predictions could be accurate globally
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Estela Lago, 49, a saleswoman at a kiosk in Buenos Aires, is fed up with this endless summer. "I can't stand it any more. We've had extreme heat since November, it's March and it doesn't end," she complained.
That's not an "extreme" anymore, that's description of normal.
"The children get sick, they can't concentrate, there are 39 students in a classroom with no air circulation," described Patricia Castro, the mother of a seven-year-old girl who attends a public school in the Boedo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.
Yep, this is a known fact. Heat discomfort messes with learning.
"The playground where they do physical education is on fire, there's no shade, it's inhumane," said this employee who sends her daughter to school anyway "because there is no one to look after her at home."
I remember some days like that. Fuck cars and the asphalt brained builders.
Meanwhile, the surge in energy demand due to the high temperatures has caused power cuts and protests from users.
"The heat affects people with few resources more, especially children," said Ernesto Texo, a 70-year-old lawyer, who observed that poverty in Argentina affects 37 percent of the population.
For Valeria Sparrow, a 50-year-old employee, "the heat is tiring, but worse is the inflation," which in 2022 was almost 100 percent per year.
"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."
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At least they won World Cup
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Always look on the bright side of life.
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Some things in life are bad
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this is sad, in middle of economic crisis and crazy inflation they have to bear with this
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And in the Northern Hemisphere's aka "Western" media nobody is talking about it. The Southern Hemisphere doesn't exist
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Hey, we're busy pretending things are gonna get better next month! /s
no, but seriously, I found trace of the situation in Argentina in Courrier International and France 24 and similar international news bodies. Nothing in french national media though.
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Tbh I live in Brazil, which is very close to Argentina, both geographically and culturally and I don't remember seeing any of this in our media either. These heat waves don't seem to be affecting us so nobody cares
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Hey guys, I think a permanent food shortage due to a permanent global heatwave will become more and more of a problem and not something we can get used to, like we got used to living in a permanent pandemic with swaths of people becoming virtually disabled every month 🤷♀️
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In my country, we have ~300 people dying every day and no one wears masks. Who cares anymore.
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Well the sun in their flag is coming through
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The following submission statement was provided by u/dr_set:
Submission Statement:
- Argentina is enduring the hottest summer on record.
- 9 consecutive heat weaves instead of the usual 4.
- Heat weaves lasted for 7 days each instead of the usual duration of 3 days.
- A red alert covers a third of the country.
- Intermittent power and water shortages affect half of the population.
- "Argentina is suffering a climatic scenario unprecedented in modern agriculture," warned the Rosario Stock Exchange in its latest report.
- The combination of high temperatures and drought led to forest fires and has dramatically affected agricultural yields in Argentina, a major food exporter.
- Argentina is one of the largest food exporters in the planet. This will contribute to the food shortages and price increase world wide as a result of the war in Ukraine.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11ndc2g/extreme_heat_and_drought_argentina_suffers_its/jbmpzyw/
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Deploy the ground based mirrors!
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Jesus Christ. This is probably a preview for the type of summer the northern hemisphere is in for.
Even worse if we get a strong El Niño!
The ratio of land to ocean is greater in the northern hemisphere, so the northern hemisphere tends to see bigger swings in temperature. If we get some nice Rossby waves locking heat domes in place for months, we could see some spectacular temps.
Naaah, it's only temporary, don't worry!
Well, you were certainly right.
In my backyard atm, wind-chill is 40°C. It's only survivable if you're in the shadow.
I'm using my hose to cool down. I have AC, but you can't have it running 24/7.