An unusual snowfall was captured in southern Brazil on Wednesday, as videos uploaded to social media showed driveways and cars blanketed in ice. Temperatures fell in swathes of Brazil on Thursday - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the centre-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frosts.

Rare snowfall lashes southern Brazil threatening crops

Snow in Brazil occurs yearly in the high plains of the country's South Region (comprising the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná). Elsewhere in the country it is a rare phenomenon but has been registered several times.

South Brazil witnesses rare snowfall | Polar air brings snowfall in Rio Grande Do Sul

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Rare snowfall lashes southern Brazil threatening crops

South Brazil witnesses rare snowfall | Polar air brings snowfall in Rio Grande Do Sul