Ariadne<p>Reminder - it is <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winter</span></a> in the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SouthernHemisphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernHemisphere</span></a> - "‘Winter is disappearing’: <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAmerica</span></a> hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heatwave</span></a></p><p>Buenos Aires records hottest start to August in 117 years, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chile</span></a> sees highs towards 40F and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Bolivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bolivia</span></a>, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Paraguay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paraguay</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a> also bake</p><p>Now should be South America’s bleak midwinter, but several parts of the continent are experiencing an extraordinary unseasonal heatwave that scientists believe offers a disturbing glimpse of a future of extreme weather.</p><p>Argentina’s riverside capital, Buenos Aires, this week recorded its hottest 1 August in 117 years.</p><p>Cindy Fernández, a weather bureau spokesperson, said her country was facing “a year of extreme heat".</p><p>“Winter temperatures are way off the scale – not only in the central region where Buenos Aires is but also in the northern regions bordering Bolivia and Paraguay where temperatures reached between 37C (98.6F) and 39C (102.2F) this week. Hundreds of miles to the west, in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chile</span></a>, temperatures rose even higher, towards 40C.</p><p>“July was the planet’s hottest month since records began and the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Andes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andes</span></a> are now experiencing their own thermal ordeal,” announced the Santiago-based newspaper La Tercera. “Although we’re in winter, Chile is living through a little hell of its very own.”<br>...<br>"Five years ago, winter in Paraguay made for chilly days, Mendoza pointed out. “But now it’s 30C-35C [86F-95F] in the winter due to climate change.”</p><p>In the Catholic University’s shade-filled campus off the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Paraguay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paraguay</span></a> River, Oscar López Grutter, the school’s administrative director, agreed that recent winters in Paraguay have changed as the world has grown hotter. “This winter is less cold and much shorter,” he said. “There’s less nature – there’s climate disorder, more cars, more industry, more pollution. Deforestation, less trees and, unfortunately, less periodic rains.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/03/south-america-winter-heatwave" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2023/aug</span><span class="invisible">/03/south-america-winter-heatwave</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Argentina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Argentina</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heatwave</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Hitzewelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitzewelle</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Klimakrise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klimakrise</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Klima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klima</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Santiago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Santiago</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BuenosAires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuenosAires</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a></p>