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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires and Matthew Grace in Asunción

‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

Children cool off at a fountain in a park in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
Children cool off at a fountain in a park in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Now should be South America’s bleak midwinter, but several parts of the continent are experiencing an extraordinary unseasonal heatwave that scientists believe offers a disturbing glimpse of a future of extreme weather.

Argentina’s riverside capital, Buenos Aires, this week recorded its hottest 1 August in 117 years.

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