El Niño is over, but the rains persist. In recent weeks, Chile has received a series of phenomena that have caused, and triggered, heavy rainfall about the country: extensive extratropical cyclones have enhanced the advance of the rains in Chile, which have received the contribution of atmospheric river humidity of high categories.
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And this condition of heavy rains and frequent frontal systems will remain for at least the next 10 days over several regions, many of them extremely affected by the catastrophic consequences of abundant rains, that they had not seen each other for a long time.
More rain on the way
He low pressure corridor that has been established, just as in the winters of yore, will remain intensely active Over the next week, at least that is what the precipitation trends show us, provided by the weekly weather models from the European Center for Medium-Range Forecasts (ECMWF).
The central zone, as well as the south of the country, will once again be the focal point of the front systems in the coming days, fronts that are even already visible in satellite images. The ECMWF weekly projection tells us that rainfall will be abundant again on the section that goes from the south of Coquimbo and to the Los Lagos Region.
However, and although the extension will be broad, It will be the section between O’Higgins and Biobío that will concentrate the largest accumulated. This part of the country has been one of the most affected by the intense rains of recent days and, although with brief pauses, they will continue to receive the frontal systems.
Will it rain with cold?
The recent frontal systems have not been accompanied by the advance of intense cold air masses, however, they have still left abundant snowfall in mountain areas of the central zone and also in the mountain range and foothills of Coquimbo.
Although temperatures will drop in areas of the country affected by recent floods, The extreme cold will remain over Patagoniaconfined to the southern extreme as a result of the presence of intense high pressures over the southern ocean.
In Magellan, The high pressures will ensure that the weather is stablewith little rainfall on the southernmost tip of Chileand the showers received during the next week will be snow and concentrated at the beginning of next week.
The cold will leave anomalies of between 3 to 6 degrees Celsius below the averagewhich at the time is between 0 and -1 ºC for the minimum temperatures in Punta Arenas, according to data consulted on the Climate Services page of the Meteorological Directorate of Chile.
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And although the extreme cold will be concentrated over Patagonia, the temperatures will tend to register below average in sectors of Los Ríos and also Los Lagoswhere days with between 1 and 3 degrees below average are expected on average.
What is the projection for the last week of June?
The cold must remain present in the southern regions of the country, as well as over Patagonia in the last days of June.
Talking about precipitationthese should come in within the normal range for the time at the end of the first month of climatological winter.
