ties from the wind, and temperatures become more extreme. Maquinchao is a couple hundred kilometers east of Bariloche, at the same altitude on a plateau, and summer daytime temperatures are usually about 5 �C warmer, rising up to 35 �C sometimes, but winter temperatures are much more extreme: the record is ?35 �C, and it is not uncommon to see some nights 10 �C colder than Bariloche. The plateaus in Santa Cruz province and parts of Chubut usually have snow cover through the winter, and often experience very cold temperatures. In Chile, the city of Balmaceda is known for being situated in this region (which is otherwise almost exclusively in Argentina), and for being the coldest place in Chile, with temperatures below ?20 �C every once in a while.
The northern Atlantic coast has warm summers (28 �C to 32 �C, but with relatively cool nights at 15 �C) and mild winters, with highs of about 12 �C and lows about 2�3 �C. Occasionally, temperatures reach ?10 �C or 40 �C, and rainfall is very scarce. It only gets a bit colder further south in Chubut, and the city of Comodoro Rivadavia has summer temperatures of 24 �C to 28 �C, nights of 12 �C to 16 �C, and winters with days around 10 �C and nights around 3 �C, and less than 250 mm of rain. However, there is a drastic drop as we move south to Santa Cruz: Rio Gallegos, in the south of the province, has summer temps of 17 �C to 21 �C, (nights between 6 �C and 10 �C) and winter temperatures of 2 �C to 6 �C, with nights between ?5 �C and 0 �C despite being right on the coast. Snowfall is common despite the dryness, and temperatures are known to fall to under ?18 �C and to remain below freezing for several days in a row. Rio Gallegos is also among the windiest places on Earth, with winds reaching 100 km h occasionally.
Tierra del Fuego is extremely wet in the west, relatively damp in the south, and dry in the north and east. Summers are cold (13 �C to 18 �C in the north, 12 �C to 16 �C in the south, with nights
