Overview

• National alerts activated overnight place parts of Buenos Aires and nine other provinces under yellow and orange warnings for storms, rain and strong winds.
• La Plata faces scattered showers Friday before a shift to strong storms Saturday afternoon and night with a 100% probability and gusts near 50 km/h.
• Costa de Patagones remains under an orange alert with 60–80 mm of rain forecast and a risk of lightning, hail and damaging gusts.
• Cordilleran areas of La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza and Catamarca hold yellow alerts for west winds of 60–75 km/h and Zonda episodes with gusts up to 70 km/h that can cut visibility and spike temperatures.
• Bahía Blanca’s overnight orange alert was lifted Friday morning with calm conditions reported, though a yellow alert returns Saturday afternoon with 20–60 mm of rain possible.