User:Maxcrc/South America

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The following table lists records of extreme temperature in territories of South America.


Territory Lowest Temperature Highest Temperature
T°C Place Date T°C Place Date
South America -40.0 Puesto Viejo Flag of Chile Chile 21 June 2002 49.1 Villa de María del Río Seco Flag of Argentina Argentina 2 January 1920
Flag of Argentina Argentina -39.0 Valle de Los Patos Superior San Juan province [1][2] 17 July 1972 49.1 Villa de María del Río Seco Córdoba province [1] 2 January 1920
Flag of Bolivia Bolivia -25.7 Uyuni Potosí department [3][4] 4 August 1946 46.7 Villa Montes Tarija department [5] November and December 1980
Flag of Brazil Brazil -17.8 Morro da Igreja, Urubici municipality Santa Catarina state [6][7] 29 June 1996 44.6 Orleans Santa Catarina state [8][9] 6 January 1963
Flag of Chile Chile -40.0 Puesto Viejo Aysén region [10][11] 21 June 2002 41.6 Los Ángeles Biobío region [12] 9 February 1944
Flag of Colombia Colombia -9.8 Sierra Nevada del Cocuy [13] January 1979 41.5 Barrancabermeja [14]
Flag of Ecuador Ecuador -4.3 Izobamba [15][16] November 1996 39.6 La Libertad [17]
Flag of the Falkland Islands Falkland Islands (UK) -11.1 Stanley [18] 26.9 Mount Pleasant Airport [19] 23 February 2004
Flag of French Guiana French Guiana (Fr) 12.2 Saül 39.0 Regina [20] 6 October 2005
Flag of Guyana Guyana 13.0 Kaieteur Falls [21][22] 39.0 Ebini Livestock Station and Lethem [23] September 1997
Flag of Paraguay Paraguay -7.5 Prats Gill Boquerón department [24] 13 July 2000 44.8 Doctor Pedro P. Peña Boquerón department [25] 9 November 1968
Flag of Peru Peru -28.2 Chuapalca Tacna region [26] August 2003 41.1 Neshuya Ucayali department [27][28] August 1963
Flag of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) -29.8 Thule (Morrell) Island South Sandwich Islands [29][30] 31 July 1995 23.5 Grytviken South Georgia [31][30] 9 February 2004
Flag of Suriname Suriname 14.8 Sipaliwini [32] 23 January 1964 39.3 Placer L. en F. de Jong (near Djumu) Sipaliwini district [33]
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay -11.0 Melo Cerro Largo department [34] 14 June 1967 44.0 Paysandú Paysandú department [34] 20 January 1943
Rivera Rivera department [34] 26 February 1953
Flag of Venezuela Venezuela -8.0 San Isidro de Apartaderos Mérida state [35] 41.4 Coro Falcón state [36] 24 September 1946

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Datos extremos en el país y en el mundo, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
  2. ^ It is likely that Valle de Los Patos Superior is an uninhabited area. The town of Maquinchao Río Negro Province recorded -35.0°C on 17 July 1991.
  3. ^ Boletín Mensual del Tiempo 1946, Bolivia Servicio Meteorológico, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 27 January 2007.
  4. ^ Unofficial temperatures as low as -30C as also been reported in the Uyuni Glaciar.
  5. ^ Boletines Climatológicos, Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (SENAMHI). Retrieved 18 June 2007.
  6. ^ Sibéria brasileira no sul do Brasil, Serra Catarinense. Retrieved 23 February 2007.
  7. ^ This is reading is possibly unreliable. -14°C has been reported from Caçador Santa Catarina state on 11 June 1952, and -11.6°C from Xanxerê Santa Catarina state on 25 July 1945.
  8. ^ Primavera bem Alternada e Verão…, ClimaTerra. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
  9. ^ 44.8°C was reported from Bom Jesus do Piauí Piauí state on 21 November 2005 but the reading is probably unreliable. 44.8C was also recorded in late XIX century at the Fazenda Descalvados, in the Pantanal region.
  10. ^ Boletines Anteriores, Junio 2002, Sección de Meteorología del Departamento de Geofísica de la Universidad de Chile. Retrieved 13 June 2007.
  11. ^ Highest temperature recorded in an inhabited place is -37°C which was recorded on the same day at Coyaique Alto. -37C was also recorded at the Ollague glaciar, near the border with Bolivia,in 1962.
  12. ^ McWhirter, Norris (1976). The Guinness Book of Answers. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0900424702
  13. ^ http://sanmateo-boyaca.gov.co/nuestromunicipio.shtml?apc=m-y1--&m=f. Lowest recorded temperature in a middle-size town was -7.2C at Funza on 15 February 1995.
  14. ^ Predicción Climática y Alertas Para Planear y Decidir, Abril de 2005, Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM). Retrieved 15 June 2007. A reading of 42.7C claimed at Barrancabermeja in December 1949 is an error.Unofficial temperatures as high as 43C has been reported in the Tatacoa Desert.
  15. ^ Información Meteorológica, Instituto Nacional de Meteorología en Hidrología (INAMHI). Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  16. ^ -8°C has been reported from high elevation at Hacienda Romerillos and -15C on the top of Volcan Chimborazo
  17. ^ 39.8C was reported -an tagged as national record- in the central plains in April 1963. Other readings higher than 39.8C are errors.
  18. ^ Tables of Temperature, Relative Humidity and Precipitation for the World. Great Britain Meteorological Office (1958-1967).
  19. ^ Historical Weather: Mount Pleasant Airport, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (sic), El Tiempo. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
  20. ^ http://www.meteofrance.fr/FR/climat/clim_guyan.jsp.
  21. ^ http://www.cimh.edu.bb/summary/s2004b/sheet006.php Summary of Daily Observations – 2004], Caribbean Meteorological Institute. Retrieved 28 July 2007. This reading was recroded in January 2004, since the observations at Kaieteur Falls don't encompass a long period of time, lower temperatures may have been recorded during colder years.
  22. ^ Temperatures as low as 0°C have been reported from high elevation on Mount Roraima.
  23. ^ http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cd318_pdf/LSN1612.PDF Monthly Weather Summary 1997, Caribbean Meteorological Institute], NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
  24. ^ Valores Extremos Historicos, Dirección de Meteorología e Hidrología. Retrieved 17 June 2007.
  25. ^ Unofficial records of 46.0C were also reported at Pedro Pena and Prats Gills
  26. ^ Boletin Meteorológico e Hidrológico del Perú, Agosto, 2003, World Agrometeorological Information Service (WAMIS). Retrieved 17 June 2007.
  27. ^ Boletín Climatológico Anual, Año 1963, Dirección General de Meteorología, Perú, NOAA Central Library, Climate Data Imaging Project. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
  28. ^ 42°C has been reported from Pucallpa Ucayali department but this is probably unreliable.
  29. ^ Historical Weather: South Thule Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, El Tiempo. Retrieved 29 Jul 2007.
  30. ^ a b 28.9°C has been reported from Grytviken (Cumberland Bay) South Georgia, but is probably unreliable.
  31. ^ Interface to BAS/Met Oracle database, British Antarctic Survey. Retrieved 18 June 2007.
  32. ^ Temperatures are believed to approach 11C near the border with Brazil.
  33. ^ Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië, Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren. Retrieved 22 June 2007.
  34. ^ a b c http://www.rau.edu.uy/uruguay/geografia/records.txt. Retrieved 24 June 2007.
  35. ^ -11°C has also been reported near the Pico Espejo.
  36. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=N1cTAAAAYAAJ&q=September+24,+1946++intitle:venezuela+intitle:date&dq=September+24,+1946++intitle:venezuela+intitle:date&pgis=1. An unofficial temperature of 42C was also recorded in the regional station of Judibana.