Tag: Santiago pollution

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 07:15 UTC

  Driest June in Santiago in fifty years worsens pollution in the midst of Copa America match

  

  Chile's capital Santiago has experienced the driest June in half a century, leading to unexpected headache-inducing levels of contamination and Andean ski slopes bereft of snow, with no rain clouds on the horizon. There has been zero precipitation in the month to date in Santiago, the first time that has happened in fifty years, according to meteorology records.