Climate in Argentina

[FrankPintor]

Who has the time to count how many days pass without a comment? On someone else's post?

Get a life.....!

I’ve been wondering if there’s any sensible response or riposte on my part to @Alby . I absolutely don’t hate him, in fact quite a few of the likes for his posts are from me. I guess I rubbed him up the wrong way with a few of my more political posts, but surely we can agree to disagree. Come back @Alby!!

 

[Redpossum]

Power cut in the boonies north of CABA at only 28 degrees

At least we have 4K litres of water in tanks on the roof so we won’t run out of water anytime soon. Plus we have a bottled gas cooker in the “Quincho”. Waiting to get our Generac gas generator soon, when I have money again

Ugh, sympathies. 28c with not even a fan can be damned unpleasant, especially with the humidity we have here.

How are the mosquitoes out there? And what's a quincho?

 

[Redpossum]

El Gobierno agita el fantasma de los cortes | Nueva advertencia de Cammesa de cara a la próxima ola de calor

El Gobierno se ataja en un contexto en donde la demanda está en alza por las altas temperaturas pero también se modera por el receso veraniego y la crisis industrial.

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The Wholesale Electricity Market Administration Company ( Cammesa ) warned that due to the heat wave that several areas of the country are going through this week, it is possible that demand and power records will be exceeded , so the possibility of importing energy from Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia or Brazil is being analyzed. If these operations are insufficient, there could be service cuts.


This is yet another chapter in the chain of warnings launched by the Government throughout last year, during which there were also brutal rate hikes and record profits for the whole range of companies in the energy sector.



You have to love that part about record profits, no?

 

[Dim Witty]

Here, have a silly Spaniel photo, it’s sure to improve your day

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[Dim Witty]

Here, have a silly Spaniel photo, it’s sure to improve your day

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[Dim Witty]

At last, we have the definitive answer to the question, Who's a good boy?

 

[FrankPintor]

Ugh, sympathies. 28c with not even a fan can be damned unpleasant, especially with the humidity we have here.

How are the mosquitoes out there? And what's a quincho?

I hope to start with the gas generator installation next week, so power cuts should then be a thing of the past. The last few here don't seem to have had anything to do with high temperatures, more to random events like a car on fire under an electricity line, damaged transformers, grass fires and the like, and also "programmed power cuts", where the utility company, Eden, claims to be improving their infrastructure in the face of major future development out here.

A bunch of people out here get hit twice by power cuts, once by having no power, and twice by having no water (no power to the pumps to move the water along). We have 4000 litres on the roof, so I think we can survive a few days if necessary.

The mosquitoes aren't too bad yet, certainly nothing like last autumn, but I guess we'll see how it really is after the expected rain this weekend. We got our first dose of the Dengue vaccine in November, 2nd dose due late February, and I guess we should have at least some protection already. And a quincho is where every self-respecting Argentinian has his BBQ set up

 

[Quilombo]

Just lost power here downtown, it's so awesome to be paying 400% more than last year and the service is just as bad; Edesur really invested those profits

 

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Mapa de los cortes de luz: cómo saber si en tu barrio hay electricidad o a qué hora vuelve | Usuarios de Edesur y Edenor

Ante el pronóstico de temperaturas máximas cercanas a los 37 grados en el AMBA, CAMESA informó que el sistema eléctrico se prepara para soportar una alta demanda. Cómo consultar si hay luz o no en una jurisdicción.

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According to the agency under the Energy Secretariat, as of 9:30 today —according to the latest update—, 27,921 EDESUR users are without electricity service . Most of the power outages affect the neighborhoods of Capital Federal, although it is also reported that there are users in the southern area of the metropolitan area —Lomas de Zamora, Lanús, Esteban Echeverría, Quilmes and Avellaneda— without supply.

On the other hand, in contrast, there are only 712 EDENOR users who are affected by power outages this Thursday , and in most cases, the victims are towns in the province of Buenos Aires - Pilar, La Matanza, Moreno, San Isidro.