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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Alice Fowle and Matt Andrews (Metdesk)

Weather tracker: extremes of heat and cold hit South and North America

A smoke-filled yellow sky during a wild fire near the city of Santa Juana, Chile.
A smoke-filled yellow sky during a wild fire near the city of Santa Juana, Chile. Photograph: Pablo Hidalgo/EPA

Unrelenting and record-breaking heat is expected to continue across parts of South America this week. Temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-to-high 30s celsius for Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, with maximum temperatures possibly hitting 40C across northern Argentina.

These temperatures are at least 5-10C above the climatological average, with the extreme heat expected to continue at least until the middle part of February.

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