Buenos Aires City prepares for the coldest Saturday in recent decades
A polar air mass settled in Argentina the week of July 13, pushing temperatures down across the country and causing rare snowfall in the Buenos Aires province. People in downtown Buenos Aires City bundled up against the cold as temperatures ducked down near freezing.
Street vendors ran a swift trade in hats, scarves and gloves as rumors floated around that snow might fly in the capital. A snow in 2007 in Buenos Aires, the first in 89 years, touched off euphoria amongst residents.
Meteorologist Daniel Cortes said the cold air mass pushed up from Antarctica and settled in the middle of the country.
“The entrance of a cold front from the Antarctica into the middle of the country caused very low temperatures and snows in the province of Buenos Aires, especially on the coast,” he said.
In Mendoza, 1.000 kilometers east of Buenos Aires, a skiff of snow blanketed the city that sits at the foothills of the Andes.
Cortes added that the cold weather had spread across the nation, even into the subtropical regions in the north bordering Brazil and Paraguay.
“The cold snap is going to continue. We had a very cold week. The cold air made it to Salta on Tuesday, to Posadas. It's remarkable when you have temperatures of 2 or 3 degrees Celsius in the north. It's really cold. The cold snap will continue, especially in the middle of the country. Tomorrow Saturday will be the coldest day in Buenos Aires, getting down to zero,” Cortes added.
Beyond snows in Mendoza, local news stations showed images of the coastal resort city Mar del Plata, its beaches white with a skiff of snow, while towns less than 60 miles outside the capital reported snow on Thursday morning.
According to Argentina’s Meteorological Office at 07:35 in the capital Buenos Aires the temperature plummeted to minus 1.5 Celsius, a record for the last decade.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Buenos Aires City was 9 July 1918 plus a huge snowfall, said Miriam Andrioli from the Met Office.
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Ask your british mates....
It is them enjoying the news and mocking poor people dying from cold in Argentina.
Who cares anyway ... right? They are miserable animals!
What's your civilized excuse for this?:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/rise-in-northern-ireland-elderly-dying-from-cold-14546222.html#
Bit hard to claim the moral high ground while at the same time posting links about the elderly dying in the UK.
No, Was your previous post your excuse?
At first, you use the news from a third word country to ”amuse yourself” about poor people freezing to death.
Then, when made aware that similar things are happening in your own “first word country”, your only reaction is to try to “shoot the messenger”.
As I have said before, you use the news in here to feel better and finer. (democracy, navy, human rights, missiles, money whatever...)
And at the same time tolerate these “winter death sentences” for the aged....
This old people dying are not “miserable parasites” that don’t want to work.... They are the generation that constructed your modern Britain.
This thread exemplifies perfectly your unawareness about your own system.......
“Much funnier to spit in the face of a far away country”......... “Our government is taking good care of everything here”.......... “The house is in perfect order”
Well, it is not, and continues not to be................:
www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6997427/Britains-cold-weather-deaths-soar-as-winter-takes-its-toll.html
Bullied at school think?
Then, when made aware that similar things are happening in your own “first word country”, your only reaction is to try to “shoot the messenger”.
but you so enjoy being Mercury
You are wrong.
I just “pick” some of the primitive and dehumanizing wiewpoints your side employs against us................ and turn them around.
Be it historical nazi links, inhuman conduct, racism, hypocrisy, political or social development, whatsoever...... .....
In hope of a better and enlightening debate .........
I would “enjoy” that!
deserves
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/rise-in-northern-ireland-elderly-dying-from-cold-14546222.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6997427/Britains-cold-weather-deaths-soar-as-winter-takes-its-toll.html
No think you are just nasty and spiteful
Those same veterans everybody here is paying “lip service” to.
What do you tell them?
Ohhhhhhh.... Britain is in “Dire Straits”, my “Brother in Arms”
We have a new Powerful Enemy you know? ! Argentina !
We need 2 new Aircraft Carriers; £3.000 million a piece.
We need new Taranis planes; £143 million a piece.
We need your heating money............
What?
Are you freezing to death?
Put on an extra Cardigan old chap..........
(Tsk....Ungratefull old geezer...)
Synonyms: acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, ireful, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, rancorous, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, splenetic, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful
Antonyms: kind, kindly, peaceable
Yep spiteful fits the bill
“It is them enjoying the news and mocking poor people dying from cold in Argentina.”
Claiming the morale high ground, Then afterwhich you spend almost every post mocking elderly people in the UK dying from the cold.
Two faced is an understatement.
I mock YOU, your weapons, YOUR mercenaries, YOUR sick war fantasies etc.
Do you get it mate?
Argentina has a military too.
Three of your posts was about elderly dying in the UK, only one mentioned our army. So yes, you was mocking our elderly wo have died. While at the same time complaining that we did it.
Two faced.
(13) I had no intention of commenting this weather article but then I read your “witty” comments.
You use the news from a third word country to ”amuse yourself” about poor people freezing to death.
Then, when made aware that similar things are happening in your own “first word country”, your only reaction is to try to “shoot the messenger”.
As I have said before, you use the news in here to feel better and finer. (democracy, navy, human rights, missiles, money whatever...)
And at the same time tolerate these “winter death sentences” for the aged....
This old people dying are not “miserable parasites” that don’t want to work.... They are the generation that constructed your modern Britain.
This thread exemplifies perfectly your unawareness about your own system.......
“Much funnier to spit in the face of a far away country”......... “Our government is taking good care of everything here”.......... “The house is in perfect order”
Well, it is not, and continues not to be................:
www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6997427/Britains-cold-weather-deaths-soar-as-winter-takes-its-toll.html
And argentine elderly get bugger all
Our government is taking good care of everything here”..........
“The house is in perfect order” .............
But............. why is people dying then?
Maybe it is all an Argentinean hoax?
www.direct.gov.uk/en/Pensionsandretirementplanning/Benefits/BenefitsInRetirement/DG_10018657
I'm not a believer....
I am a thinking person....
If I see a flattened dog carcass lying on the roadside, I don't believe it's alive.
I know it's dead.
you belive we let our senior citzens die, nasty think
Thanks for putting me straight....
“I know nothing....
I'm from Barcelona...”
Ok, maybie YOU should read the thread again.
“I had no intention of commenting this weather article but then I read your “witty” comments.
You use the news from a third word country to ”amuse yourself” about poor people freezing to death.”
Please show me the post where i've commented about the sufforing of the elderly amusing myself? It's not there. because my first post was:
8:
Bit hard to claim the moral high ground while at the same time posting links about the elderly dying in the UK.
Suddenly all the “Big Guns” rejoicing over the death of some “blackies” just disappeared leaving a “pair of Boys” to defend them........
Well ............ at least it’s warmer in Argentina today.
“In addition to the deaths due to low temperatures, 33 people, including 11 children, died from carbon monoxide poisoning, a product of poor combustion in the heating system.”
Government controlled planning at it's best...
Due to cold, throughout the country, the former Energy Secretary Jorge Lapeña today confirmed that “there is a serious problem in the energy sector” “the solution will require time and money.”
And added that “Argentina is no longer an self-sufficient gas country because has difficulties in supplying its own demand.”
Nice to see the price controls on gas have ruined your energy sector and depleted your gas and oil reserves. Maybe you can get some oil from the Falklands.
There is no purpose in pointing at, or decrying, others. Set you own house in order first.
Yes a tragedy
if the argies object, go and tell him
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