FORECAST CHILE

Santiago

Four thousand kilometres north to south and never more than 350 km wide, which gives Chile the Atacama — where some stations have never recorded rain — at one end and Patagonian ice fields taking 5,000 mm at the other. Santiago in between has a Mediterranean climate and a winter smog problem caused by the same subsidence inversion that keeps it dry. The raco and the coastal camanchaca fog are both local names worth knowing.

This site is not a warning service. The official forecast and every watch and warning for Chile comes from Dirección Meteorológica de Chile. During a tropical cyclone the advisory that everything else follows is the National Hurricane Center's.

What is on this page is the raw observation — the METAR itself, from the aerodrome named above it — with nothing added and nothing forecast.