Historical Cold Snap Freezes South America

July 21, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Wattsupwiththat.com:

Cold snap freezes South America – beaches whitened, some areas experience snow for the first time in living memory

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Anthony Watts

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Excerpts:

HISTORICAL COLD SNAP FREEZES SOUTH AMERICA
By Alexandre Aguiar / MetSul Weather Center

A brutal and historical cold snap has so far caused 80 deaths in South America, according to international news agencies. Temperatures have been much below normal for over a week in vast areas of the continent. In Chile, the Aysen region was affected early last week by the worst snowstorm in 30 year. The snow accumulation reached 5 feet in Balmaceda and the Army was called to rescue people trapped by the snow….

In Uruguay, there were widespread reports of sleet and even snow mixed with rain in towns in the Southern and Eastern part of the country, even in the capital Montevideo. At leas two deaths have been blamed in Uruguay on the low temperatures. Hospitals were packed with patients with respiratory illness.
In Paraguay, at least nine people died due to the cold weather in only 3 days. Cattle were very affected and one thousand animals died of hypothermia. In Bolivia, dozes of people died in consequence of the very low temperatures. In some areas of the nation the cold period was described as the worst in 15 years. It even snowed in the Chaco of Bolivia, one of warmest areas of South America, where the local population never saw snow before. Classes were suspended in Bolivia for three days to prevent more cold related deaths (El Nacional newspaper from Bolivia)….

Southern Brazil was also very affected by the cold air eruption from the Southern Pole. Last week the temperature dropped to -7,8C in the city of Urupema, Santa Catarina. In Rio Grande do Sul, in the hills of the state, temperature felt to -4,9C in the city of Cambara. In the state of Paraná, the low was -6C. Only the nights were freezing, but the afternoons were very cold. In some days, temperature failed to reach 5C in many towns, the first time in a decade. Flurries observed in towns of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná and sleet was also reported in Western Santa Catarina….

On July 14th, in the afternoon hours, temperatures in the hills of Rio Grande do Sul state in Southern Brazil were lower than in Marambio, the main polar base of Argentina in Antarctica. In Central Brazil, in the tropics, the long streak of cold days was considered extremely rare. It was so cold that thousand of animals died in this region of Brazil known for its cattle, just South of the Amazon basin….

Maybe the most notable fact took place in North South America. The cold reached Amazon and temperatures felt to as low as 7ºC in towns in the Amazon Forest in the states of Acre and Rondonia. Temperature even felt in Roraima, where the state capital Boa Vista record 20C (normal lows are 25C) and the wind were blowing from the South. Boa Vista is located at 2º North of latitude, so the influence of the Antarctic cold blast crossed the Equator line and reached towns in the Northern Hemisphere. It would be the same of a cold snap from the Arctic crossing the entire North America continent, the Caribbean and reaching North Brazil in cities at 2º South of latitude as Santarem, a bizarre situation….

Well, given that all of that happened July 15, why did we not hear or see much of that on the news?  Perhaps we are not supposed to know about it.  Effective propaganda entails censorship of news that don’t fit the program.   A cold snap of historical proportions in South America, one that causes an antarctic blast of cold air to cross the equator into the northern hemisphere does not fit the program of man-made global warming alarmism.

We have to be careful about what we see and read in the news, but it appears that it is at least as important to be aware of what we do not see or read in the news.

As far as the mainstream media goes, consider the extent to which they regard the hundreds of deaths due to cold in South America as news worth covering.

Something is seriously wrong with that picture.

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