Chileans bundle up amid the fiercest cold snap in decades
Chileans are bundling up with more clothes and clutching cups of hot coffee as the country faces the most intense cold snap in nearly 70 years, bringing winter weather in the middle of autumn. University of Santiago climatologist Raul Cordero says it's, "the longest cold snap ever recorded" in the capital Santiago. - REUTERS
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00:20 May used to be a super autumn month and now we go from extremely hot to extremely cold.
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00:38 Since 1950 onwards, i.e., in the last 74 years, we have not had such an intense cold spell in May.
00:46 We have had days with even lower temperatures, but now we have a succession of 8 days
00:52 with temperatures well below typical values.
00:57 So, we are in the presence of the longest cold spell ever recorded in the capital,
01:02 at least for the autumn months.
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