Frozen Patagonia: with 23 degrees below thermal zero, in Río Grande it froze to the sea

The city of Rio Grande, in Tierra del Fuego, is living the coldest two weeks of the last 15 years. This Wednesday dawned with a thermal sensation of 21 degrees below zero. These sustained freezing temperatures led to many neighbors freezing their water and gas pipes.

“We have had extreme temperatures for more than a week. We are already used to this type of weather, even outside of winter. But this last week we have been cold until we reached an extreme, with a 23 degree below zero thermal sensation“said Cristian Meza, the correspondent of TN in that city.

The landscape is white and you can even see it blocks of ice in the sea. In the fuegian city it is colder than in Antarctica and the inhabitants are suffering from it.

This Tuesday the lowest peak was registered, with a thermal sensation of 23 degrees below zero, and it has been more than five days since they failed to exceed zero degrees.

There are 35 thousand people that the water supply and some also the Of gas, at a time when they are necessary goods to be able to heat homes and have a little better time.

There’s also traffic difficulties and flooded connections through the snow. The postcards of the ice-covered cars caught the attention of Internet users, but they are a constant in this place.

According to data from the National Weather Service (SMN), the temperature will begin to rise slowly on Thursday.

Tierra del Fuego is one of the three Argentine provinces that does not register new COVID-19 infections in the last 14 days. But, despite the fact that the favorable epidemiological situation allowed him to normalize his activities, the polar wave complicates the picture.

This is not the only Patagonian city that was affected by sub-zero temperatures, the same situation is experienced in Río Turbio, Puerto San Julián, Puerto Deseado and El Calafate.