Pampero

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The Pampero is an often stormy southwest wind in the Argentine pampas . It brings cold, dry air from Patagonia to the pampas, to Buenos Aires and to Paraguay and Uruguay . The Pampero is often accompanied by considerable rainfall and temperature drops.

The Pampero, whose name derives from its origin in the area of ​​the pampas , occurs on the back of the southern hemisphere mid-latitude lows mainly from October to January. It corresponds to a north-west weather situation in Europe.

The wind is the namesake for the Pampero Pass in Antarctica

Individual evidence

  1. Handbook of the East Coast of South America: Between Cape San Roque and the Strait of Magellan by Deutsche Seewarte, Georg Balthasar von Neumayer, 1902, p. 22ff, accessed on February 14, 2012
  2. Handbuch der Klimatologie by Julius von Hann , p. 675f, accessed on February 14, 2012
  3. Argentina in the Twentieth Century by Alberto B. Martínez and Maurice Lewandowski, 1912, p. 26