Power grid fails as Argentina hit by record-breaking heatwave

It normally doesn’t take this much to break the grid in Argentina. After nearly 30 years of private companies running free not doing any improvements or expansions, the grid does what it can.

As an anecdote, my parents kept losing power independently of the neighborhood. They were still hooked with aluminum wires from who knows when and the pole line was shared with one neighbor. Every time my parents and the neighbor’s AC would come on at the same time, they would trigger a breaker and they would both lose power.

The tech that finally figured it out said that should’ve been fixed in the 90s.

In regards of the weather, it’s becoming more and more unpredictable down there. Last year I was there for Christmas and it was 75. This year it was also nice, but I remember Christmas with 35c many years. I left again last week and it was pleasant, then this week 45c. Before I left in 2014 we would get crazy sudden hail storms in summer. Hail the size of golf balls coming out of nowhere. It didn’t used to be like this 20 years ago.