translated from Spanish: Forecast up to 30 °C in the valleys for next week

Among Chilean meteorologists there is consensus: what will happen during the next week, when thermometers reach 30 degrees Celsius between Monday and Wednesday, will not be normal.” Very significant changes are taking place, “admitted the meteorologist of the Meteorological Directorate of Chile, Arnaldo Zúñiga, who predicted that this phenomenon will occur in a large part of the interior valleys of the national territory. Already in July there were two days of unusually high temperatures for the last 30 years and Jaime Leyton, meteorologist at Mega, adds that in the last 50 years there were only two days in August when the thermometers approached that level, but he points out that it happened when September was approaching. His projection is categorical: “This year practically spring is going to be invisible from the atmospheric and meteorological point of view.” Both agree that the situation is given by the presence of a very powerful anticyclone, the absence of cloudiness and a sun that, by the time of year, is higher in its elliptical than in the previous months and, therefore, there is greater radiation. These factors also affect that the mornings have been cold. For example, in July there were 17 days with temperatures around 0°C, in circumstances that in the same month of 2020 there were only two. And everything indicates that it will remain so for the next few weeks.” The forecast we made for the winter is being given,” Zúñiga reasoned about the estimate of colder mornings and warmer-than-usual afternoons. Leyton and Zúñiga agree that the country is in a neutral stage in terms of the presence of phenomena. However, they agree that the current atmospheric manifestation has characteristics similar to La Niña, which is expressed in low rainfall. That, Leyton adds, makes it likely that at least until February of next year there will be no significant presence of rain in the central area.

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