Important Takeaways:

• It’s winter in Argentina — and it’s the hottest August in 117 years of records
• The high temperatures arrive within “a context where we are experiencing a winter that, in general, is being very warm,” Fernández said.
• “The number of cold events we’ve had this winter has been very few, scarce, and the few times we had cold air outbreaks, they lasted for a very short period,” she added.
• Argentina’s hottest temperature Tuesday afternoon was recorded in the town of Rivadavia in the northern Salta province, where the thermometer hit 37.2 degrees Celsius (98 degrees Fahrenheit) in midafternoon.

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