Sao Paulo Has The Highest Winter Temperatures In The Last 62 Years.

While The Northern Hemisphere Leaves Behind The Hottest Summer In Recent Years, Brazilians Try To Deal With Historical Heat.

Frederico Costa
2 min readSep 26, 2023
Augusta Park: Sao Paulo downtown.

Spring arrived in Brazil last Saturday, September 24, leaving behind one of the hottest winters in history. The 12 million people in Sao Paulo had the highest winter temperatures in sixty-two years of recordings.

Known as a place with cold temperatures during winter, Sao Paulo had an average of 85.1 F this winter. These are high winter temperatures, even in the tropics. The weather made the local government change the plan and start a water distribution for the population downtown instead of providing blankets for homeless people to withstand the low temperatures as they used to do at this time of the year.

The winter ends, so the city had its hottest day ever, with 97.7F of temperature last Sunday, September 25. The average temperature in Sao Paulo in winter used to be 74.4F, ten degrees less than now in 2023.

Why Is It So Hot?

El Niño, which is a climate pattern that originates in the Pacific Ocean along the equator and impacts weather over the world, and the global warming effects explain these unusually high…

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Frederico Costa
Frederico Costa

Written by Frederico Costa

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