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© AP Photo/Federico GrossoSnow covers a dock in Villa La Angostura in southern Argentina, Monday, July 17, 2017. The National Meteorological Service says that the cold front comes all the way from the South Pole.
The victims are a 54-year-old homeless man in the seaside resort city of Mar del Plata and a 41-year-old man living in a shack in Santa Fe province. Officials said Monday that both died of hypothermia.
The National Meteorological Service says the cold front comes all the way from the South Pole and is hitting Argentina's center and northern regions particularly hard. Temperatures in those areas have reached as low as 19.4 Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius).
An absolute record of -13.7 Fahrenheit (-25.4 Celsius) was also registered in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche.
Flights were delayed or canceled there as the airport was temporarily closed due to weather conditions.
© suppliedA Qantas turboprop ready to be de-iced.
TEMPERATURES plummeted to a record breaking -12C this morning as winter made its presence felt across Australia's south east.
AUSTRALIA may have just recorded its coldest temperature of 2017 as a series of cold fronts barrelled across the country's south east on Sunday.
NSW and Victoria both had a freezing start to the day dropping to -12C in the mountains. Qantas has been forced to de-ice planes at Melbourne — a task usually only needed in Canberra and Hobart.
Sunday will still be chilly for Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart but temperatures will rise further north.
South of the Murray, the mercury in Ballarat fell to -2.1C, in Bairnsdale to -3.5C and at Mount Hotham to -7.8C.
But that's nothing on NSW and the ACT where residents of Orange woke to a low of -6.3C, and Canberra fell to -7C. But the mountain resort of Perisher knocked it out of the winter ballpark slumping to -12.1C at 3.30am.
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Do you need an excuse to turn the heater on in winter? Low ambient room temperatures will thicken your blood.
Moderate cold accounted for as many as 6.6% of all deaths. Extreme temperatures (either cold or hot) were responsible for only 0·86%.
Join the dots — will we save more lives by:
a) making homes cold now in the hope that lower "carbon" emissions will,
b) mean less deaths from heat in 90 years time despite people probably having better access to heaters and air conditioners?
Would you sacrifice ten years of your life...
July snow in Schefferville, Quebec
The mercury hit 1 degree Celsius on Wednesday morning at Schefferville and the slush has been seen by many citizens. According to Francois Desy, who lives in the community with almost 200 people, the snow was visible a little more in altitude, on the small mountains near the city. Some white spots were visible on the mountains at low altitude.
© Getty ImagesThe cold snap brought a rare opportunity to build snowmen in Santiago
Up to five centimetres come down in the city's first snowfall for decades, causing havoc in the Chilean capital.
More than 280,000 people have reportedly been left without power in Santiago after a rare blanket of snow hit the Chilean capital.
About 3-5cm of the white stuff came down on Saturday in what some reports say is the first snowfall there for 20 years.
A security guard at a medical facility died from an apparent heart attack while trying to clear snow, according to reports, while trees struck electricity lines.
And two other people - a 15-year-old girl and her grandmother - were thought to have been injured after they suffered electric shocks from a damaged cable.
The snow has also led to treacherous driving conditions.
© The Weather CompanyRecord temperatures are being recorded across southern Europe
Wildfires have been sparked in Italy and tourist sites in Greece have been shut because of the heat.
One man died in Spain of suspected heatstroke late Wednesday while working on roads near Seville, where temperatures reached 43C. In nearby Granada the mercury has been recorded at 45.7C.
Spain's meteorological agency AEMA said seven cities including capital Madrid had set record temperatures for July.
It soared to 40.2 C in Madrid, smashing a previous record of 39.6 C recorded in 2015.
New record highs were also set in Badajoz, Caceres, Ciudad Real, Cordoba, Jaen and Teruel.
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Comment: In neighboring Chile 280,000 people lost power this week as extremely cold weather there brought snow to Santiago for the first time in 20 years.