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Comorodo Rivadavia has a freakish climate... It's come up tons of times in climate battles and similar, and was often praised as a nice, comfortable site, but its averages don't reflect all the oddities of this place. Today the temperature plummeted to 5.8ºC during the afternoon due to a cold shot that brought rain showers, and reported a thunderstorm under 10ºC.
Nearby Puerto Deseado reported 6.0ºC and thunderstorm at noon.
On the other side, La Rioja has been hellish lately, with such daily highs and lows:
Dec 29: 20.4ºC / 40.0ºC
Dec 30: 24.0ºC / 42.5ºC
Dec 31: 26.5ºC / 45.5ºC
Jan 01: 29.5ºC / 40.4ºC
Jan 02: 24.4ºC / 39.0ºC
Jan 03: 27.0ºC / 45.0ºC
Comorodo Rivadavia has a freakish climate... It's come up tons of times in climate battles and similar, and was often praised as a nice, comfortable site, but its averages don't reflect all the oddities of this place. Today the temperature plummeted to 5.8ºC during the afternoon due to a cold shot that brought rain showers, and reported a thunderstorm under 10ºC.
In fact, Ushuaia was very close to see snow. Max of only 7ºC there.
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Originally Posted by Joe90
Another beach today. Sitting on the beach isn't my usual thing, but got visitors from Dunedin staying and they want to swim and sit on the beach and do the picnic thing.. Offshore water temperature was 19C, and a bit warmer inshore, but still not mid summer warm yet. Air temperature about 22C with a sea breeze.
Camera back in action, so some photos.
First two photos show yet another one of the many beaches in the area. Next three show a local park (visitors want to do a daily walk as well] This park shows original vegetation in this area. The second photo of the set shows a seriously tall tree fern -we all estimated 40-50ft.
Nice photos. I love the tropical alike vegetation of NZ's north island. It's so unique. I think that is the main difference btw Patagonia and NZ in favour of the last one (while in favour of Patagonia, there are the massive ice field, the thousands of fjords island and the deciduous vegetation). Yeah, Patagonia has a lot of tropical alike vegetation too, but they look more typical, while NZ's is like nothing else in the world.
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I post some pretty photos of a thunderstorm in Cordoba during the past week. Credits to foro.gustfront.com.ar
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Originally Posted by marlaver
In fact, Ushuaia was very close to see snow. Max of only 7ºC there.
Nice photos. I love the tropical alike vegetation of NZ's north island. It's so unique. I think that is the main difference btw Patagonia and NZ in favour of the last one (while in favour of Patagonia, there are the massive ice field, the thousands of fjords island and the deciduous vegetation). Yeah, Patagonia has a lot of tropical alike vegetation too, but they look more typical, while NZ's is like nothing else in the world.
I understood what you mean, evergreen vegetation of western Patagonia is more "temperate-like",while in NZ its look like an tropical rainforest,also in Patagonia the vegetation change dramatically from west to east,the eastern parts with the and deciduous vegetation just below the snowcapped mountains is one of most beautiful landscape in the world.
It was chilly here this morning, with the official temperature at 3.3C, and reports of frost up the valley. Neighbouring Blenheim (sea level) dropped to 1.3C last night. Took a while to warm up to today, but managed to crawl up to 21C. Snow on the higher peaks.
East coast areas saw a significant drop, with Havelock North dropping from 28C down to 2.5C.
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Originally Posted by marlaver
Nice photos. I love the tropical alike vegetation of NZ's north island. It's so unique. I think that is the main difference btw Patagonia and NZ in favour of the last one (while in favour of Patagonia, there are the massive ice field, the thousands of fjords island and the deciduous vegetation). Yeah, Patagonia has a lot of tropical alike vegetation too, but they look more typical, while NZ's is like nothing else in the world.
I post some pretty photos of a thunderstorm in Cordoba during the past week. Credits to foro.gustfront.com.ar
Thanks, although those photos are in the South Island.
Nice thunderstorm photos.
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Originally Posted by ghost-likin
I understood what you mean, evergreen vegetation of western Patagonia is more "temperate-like",while in NZ its look like an tropical rainforest,also in Patagonia the vegetation change dramatically from west to east,the eastern parts with the and deciduous vegetation just below the snowcapped mountains is one of most beautiful landscape in the world.
Much Beech forest in NZ doesn't really have a tropical look, having only sparse undergrowth, low species diversity and dwarfism. Changes in forest type are also rapid.
A productive afternoon spent chopping down banana plants -a great way to feel like a tough guy, swinging the machete. Some big ones there, with plants at 25ft. Lots of spiders.
Chilly mornings around here over the last week, with coastal sites seeing 1.3C lows, and most mornings below 10C for January. Quite a bit of afternoon SW/SE winds, which is drying the ground out rapidly - a bad combination, with extremely lush and long grass from the wet spring, turning into long dry grass. Grass is 5ft high around the property, dry, sticky, and full of bugs -not nice.
I can just imagine you swinging that big machete around.. oh my.
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