INT: S. America Pounded, Landslide Photos
Severe storms have gripped central South America this week. Alexandre Aguiar, from the MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, predicted this last week and emailed me this information today:
Here are relevant blog entries on the METSUL site:
Strong storms affect Argentina and Uruguay:
Friday's storms in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil):
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Sequence of radar pictures of the cell that affected Erechim (Brazil) where it rained 90 millimeters in 20 minutes and two people drowned on Friday:
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Saturday's landslide in the northeast Rio Grande do Sul and Southern Santa Catarina (Brazil):
Dramatic aerial footage of the landslides:
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Shelf cloud in Porto Alegre (Brazil) Sunday afternoon: