Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- wind
- Subclass of
- wind
- Named after
- pampa
- Country
- Uruguay
- Image
- Dust Plume over the Bahia Blanca - NASA Earth Observatory.jpg
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- has cause
- cold front
- located in/on physical feature
- pampa
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The pampero is a burst of cold polar air from the west, southwest, or south on the pampas in the south of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. This wind (often violently) picks up during the passage of a cold front of an active low passing by. It takes the form of a squall line and there is a marked drop in temperature after its passage. The Pampero is most common in winter in the Southern Hemisphere (principally between May and August). During the summers in the region around Buenos Aires, the pampero storms are a welcome feature, marking the end of long periods of high humidity and extreme heat.
Sources
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pampero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.