This is the latest from one of my favourite exotic weather places,
Río Gallegos, Argentina, 52 S, 69 W.

SAWG 161300Z 25045G57KT 9999 FEW030 16/01 Q0989

meaning: (9 a.m. local time) Wind WSW force 9, gusting to force 11.
Vis 10 km. 2 oktas at 3000 ft (probably shallow Cu). Temp 16,
dewpoint 1. Pressure 989. It's midsummer down there, oddly, the
windiest time of year.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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Tudor Hughes writes:
This is the latest from one of my favourite exotic weather places,
Río Gallegos, Argentina, 52 S, 69 W.

SAWG 161300Z 25045G57KT 9999 FEW030 16/01 Q0989

meaning: (9 a.m. local time) Wind WSW force 9, gusting to force 11.
Vis 10 km. 2 oktas at 3000 ft (probably shallow Cu). Temp 16,
dewpoint 1. Pressure 989. It's midsummer down there, oddly, the
windiest time of year.

With wind that high and humidity that low, the fire risk must be very
high. Crops must take an awful lot of irrigating too (or is it a
desert?).
--
John Hall

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
Katherine Cebrian

With wind that high and humidity that low, the fire risk must be very
high. Crops must take an awful lot of irrigating too (or is it a
desert?).

It's semi-desert, and cold too (annual mean 7°C). The current
temp and dewpoint are very typical, if not perhaps the wind! The mean
annual rainfall at Río Gallegos is 220 mm, and gets even less as you
move north. I don't think there's any arable farming, just millions of
miserably frigid sheep. It's said you don't need to move around to see
Patagonia - stay in one place and it'll eventually all blow past you
(as dust). Unique, I'd say, in being a cool west-wind desert.
Tudor Hughes