Have you ever received a link, read from your social media feed or found on the internet that 2018 will be the toughest winter of the last 100 years? For before you start pulling your jackets out of the closet or running to renew your clothes and accessories to weather the cold, know that this is just fake news .

In fact, the folks at the UOL news portal talked to various experts, forecasts point out that temperatures during winter months are expected to fall across the country from 2017. But harsh, cracking cold should it occur. be recorded on specific days. Freezing winter like what they are announcing out there, just in the rumors.

What to expect - in real ?

According to Lucas Borges Teixeira, from UOL, this year's winter will not necessarily be more extreme - the cold days will be more frequent. This is because the La Niña phenomenon - which causes the Pacific surface to cool - will make conditions for the entry of more cold fronts.

"La Niña" Should Provide More Cold Fronts (Discover Magazine)

As a result, autumn will be wetter and, as a result, simulations indicate that winter will have more cloudy and wetter days - which make the temperature feel lower - and not too cold dawn. As usual, the South and Southeast regions of Brazil will be the ones that should register the lowest temperatures, and there may be peaks of cold throughout the season.

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