It snows in the south. Nothing too crazy. Well, if you're in Tierra del Fuego, it'll snow a lot, so bring good snow boots. Argentina is pretty well developed, so if you don't bring it with you, they'll have your weather gear down there.
It rains a ton in Bahia Blanca. I have had many times walking the muddy streets of Bahia Blanca and having the time of my life.
I was in the city of Rio Gachegos, which is kind of known as the windy city, at least in Argentina. And it just has some crazy winds and it was my first day we were walking and it was super windy like you know the winds like almost push you over and I could just remember thinking wow and whenever you look out it it's just flat and the land goes forever and ever and ever and the wind just kept coming and it never stopped and during that entire area every day just walking against the wind. I even have a video opening my jacket and the wind catches it kind of like a parachute and pushes me back just because the wind was so strong it would just flip things over and some crazy weather.
The weather in Buenos Aires, I think it's most comparable to the east coast in the summertime. It's very hot. I think it's usually around 37 to 38 degrees celsius, which is hot, and almost like 90 percent humidity, sometimes up to 100 percent, sometimes down to 50, but it's hot and it's humid. So it gets really nasty during the summertime. In the wintertime it gets pretty cold too. It doesn't snow because it's too humid, but the humid cold is almost worse than like the cold cold here of Utah. So make sure you take lots of like thermals and stuff like that because you're going to put thermals on and then a sweater and then a coat and a scarf and it'll still be cold. So you want to take as much layers as you can.
Santiago del Estero, man it gets hot. It's a lot like St. George if you've ever been to St. George, Utah. Salta is probably the most mild. It's really nice, usually stays around the 70s. It can get really cold in the winter. Jujuy is more of a very humid and tropical. The same with Tucumán. Tucumán gets really hot and humid, so crazy weather. Sometimes, for example, in any one of the provinces, there could be massive rainstorms. I mean, you get a foot of water in the street, and it was awesome. It's so fun to play in that water. And in the mornings, it could be really cold, and then in the afternoons, it can be dang hot. So just have fun, enjoy the weather, because it's beautiful down there, and you'll have a blast.
While I was there, there was rain for about a week straight up to my mid-thigh, and I'm 6'1". It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it rains.
So there was this one time in Comodoro Rivadavia when there was just this crazy lightning storm. For about an hour, hour and a half, it just poured rain outside of our apartment. You could see this the roads becoming kind of like a river. Comodoro is right on, it's kind of like this bowl on the edge of the ocean, so when it rains the water kind of collects and creates these really powerful streams. I think if I remember correctly, I think several people, maybe about a half dozen people died from that storm getting swept away. Some of the houses by the mountain got filled with about a foot of mud. Some of the houses where the water collected, just kind of like the tin houses that people would put up, got washed away. And after, you know, the sewage would come out of the ground a little bit for the next week or so, I think. Anyway, that was a crazy experience. There was crazy lightning.
The rain gets pretty bad. It's not like a downpour all day, but what'll happen is the rain will come in and have these giant flash floods. So in the streets you'll get these just rivers of water. The worst one I ever had was we probably had two or three feet of water in the street that went all the way down probably two or three miles and we had to go down that street for two or three miles. It came up to our waists. So we were just biking through this giant river and the bus comes by and knocks it over. But definitely take some rain boots. I would recommend ones that go all the way up to your knee instead of just like calves because those will get wet and then your feet will get moldy.
Argentina has some very, very insane rainstorms. I remember in an area called Tigre, it was this huge flash flood for like two days straight. Just the streets were just completely nuts, just full of water about up to my waist. And Tigre is a little special because it's like an island, it's surrounded by rivers, so the water doesn't really drain out, but it was crazy. We were like swimming through the streets, so definitely be prepared for lots and lots of water.
Okay, the weather up north is really hot. It's very hot and very humid and there's lots of mosquitoes, especially when it rains, and it rains a lot as well, and it's muddy, very muddy, but it's awesome and you just have to learn how to deal with it and put on a lot of bug spray, but it's good. And lightning gets pretty intense when it rains.
The weather in Argentina is, well in Santa Fe, it's pretty humid. It gets really really hot in the summer so just be aware that it's it's a lot more humid and a lot hotter than you would ever imagine and then randomly it gets so so cold. Rainstorms come out of nowhere so just be prepared especially in the summer.
It gets really, really hot, especially if you're in the Santa Fe province. During summer, it gets really, really humid. So just be ready for that. Most of the apartments have air conditioning in it, so you should be fine there to sleep and everything. However, it gets super... Well, there's a lot of rain, so just be ready with some good rain boots. I had lots of nights where and days where we're just walking through rain up to our knees, holding up our dresses, but it makes for a good experience.
The craziest weather in Argentina was during the flooding season, which I can't remember when that was. It was in Villa Angela and I mean it became a shallow lake in most area. People warned us of walking in it because snakes could come up and bite us. I never had that happen but I really enjoyed it. It was really fun to like just walk through walk through the streets that was now a river and I didn't mind the rain one bit but that was the worst weather is it would rain a ton during a short amount of time and flood.
Zapata is very, very windy. We would walk around with skirts and dresses and we would put rocks in the pockets so our dresses wouldn't fly up.
So the weather in the Santa Fe area is very humid and mainly if you're I would say in the Santa Fe Parana area which is like near each other they have a large river and so it gets super humid over there and so pretty much like during the summer it is super hot and sometimes when you're walking outside you feel like it's 130 degrees and sometimes it feels feels like that you're just so heavy and so drenched from sweat and during the winter it gets it gets pretty cold. I would say the coldest that I've heard of was about like 30 something degrees. It never snows but usually like the weather I would say sometimes usually during the summer there there's a lot of like storms going on but they're not major storms like sometimes it would hail every once in a while but it wouldn't be like a tornado.