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Rare snowfall reported in Uruguay

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Brazilian and North American meteorologists both agreed it was snow that was seen falling in parts of Uruguay on Sunday, August 19, 2018. Since Uruguay is located within the temperate zone of the tropic of Capricorn, the country has warm summers and crisp winters with almost unknown freezing temperatures.

A cold front swept over Uruguay and Argentina on August 18 and 19, dropping very rare snow on parts of Uruguay and graupel on Argentina.

"While not the coldest air of the season, enough moisture lingered in the allow snow to fall in the higher terrain of southeast Uruguay," AccuWeather's senior meteorologist Eric Leister said.

"High temperatures were roughly 14 °C (25 °F) lower on Sunday than Saturday across the region. Farther south, the same storm system and cold airmass produced graupel across eastern Argentina, near Bahia Blanca."

Featured image credit: Met Uy Estacion bcp @Estacion_bcp

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3 Comments

  1. All of that snow was not ment for you all to play in and make snow man in stuff! It is going to be a famine in all of the lands soon, but yet in the North Pole there will be know snow for the children who are coming home soon! Trump knows what I mean. And if he don’t one of him do?

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