Overview

• Official alerts anticipate 40–70 mm of rain in a few hours with strong wind gusts, hail and intense lightning as the system develops.
• La Pampa, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires are cited as the primary provinces at risk, with peak impacts expected from Saturday night into Sunday.
• The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange reports a very irregular rainfall pattern concentrating over the center‑east of the farm belt, leaving other areas with scant totals.
• The exchange cautions that such unevenness could presage a disturbed spring–summer growing season, urging producers to step up short‑term monitoring.
• An SMN study of 1906–2024 records finds storms near Aug. 30 in about 57% of years, including a notably intense Aug. 30–31, 2024 event that delivered 118 mm in Buenos Aires.