"It’s gotten exceptionally chilly in SOUTH AMERICA and ICELAND this week, as intense polar outbreaks escape both poles via a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow (a result of the historically low solar activity we’re experiencing).
... Following on from Monday’s intense Arctic depression –which delivered rare late-season snow to residents of Mývatnssveit and Fáskrúðsfjörður, and had meteorologists labeling it “special” due to just how far south it descended– record late-season COLD continues to blast ‘the land of fire and ice.’
This week almost none of the nations weather stations managed to reach daytime highs of 10C (50F).
Such low and widespread maximum temperatures haven’t been seen since 1975 (solar minimum of cycle 20).
Additionally, on June 15, a lava-seeking low of -5C (23F) was recorded at Reykir, which has gone down as Iceland’s lowest temperature in an inhabited area so late into the season.
Demonstrating just how global this global cooling is, the SOUTH AMERICAN nations of Paraguay and Uruguay logged colder-than-average months of May.
May 2021 in Paraguay came out colder than average, and much drier, too.
Temperature anomalies of between -0.5C & -2C (31F & 28F) below the 1981-2010 baseline were observed across large swathes of the country, particularly in the west:
While drought was felt, predominately in the east:
The story was a similar one in Uruguay, where the month of May was much colder than average across the entire nation.
According to the Uruguay’s meteorological agency, average temperatures for May varied from -0.4C (31F) below the 1981-2010 norm in the southeast, to a whopping -2.2C (28F) below in the north:
As I reported yesterday, South America’s May chill has extended and intensified into an unprecedented June freeze.
Heavy snow has even been reported in the interior of Argentina, including in the city of Córdoba which was blanketed in snow for the first time in 14 years.
Stunning photos and videos captured the incredibly rare Córdoba snow, which is thought to have occurred just a handful of times in the past 100+ years (in 2007, 1975, 1955, 1920, 1918, and 1912 — years which ALL correlate to solar minimums/prolonged periods of reduced solar activity)."
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Friday, June 18, 2021
"Record Late-Season Cold Sweeps Iceland, as the Month of May in Paraguay and Uruguay closes Below Average"
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