When even Brit travellers are bitching about the lack of sun, you know it's a serious issue.
By my count, I have seen that big, beautiful ball of blazing fire for a grand total of 4 hours since I arrived in Lima on August 7th.
Picture to remind myself what it looks like...
Well, here's the scientific explanation, for those weather geeks out there:
"The influence of cool, sea-surface temperatures associated with the south to north flow of the Humboldt or Peruvian Current combines with hot, dry Equatorial air from coastal deserts of Peru and Chile. Also important is the influence of strong atmospheric subsidence associated with a positionally stable, subtropical anticyclone. The result is a mild, uniform coastal climate with the regular formation of thick stratus cloud banks below 1000 m during the winter months.
Where coastal topography is low and flat, this stratus layer dissipates inward over broad areas with little biological impact, but where isolated mountains or steep coastal slopes intercept the clouds, a fog-zone develops with a stratus layer concentrated against the hillsides. These fogs, termed garúa in Peru and camanchaca in Chile, are the key to the extent and diversity of vegetation throughout the deserts of the western coast."
Unfortunately that diversity of vegetation does not apply to Lima, where the greatest impact of the garúa can be seen in the rustiness of the cars and the amazingly long time it takes for anything to dry!
The depressing daily view from roof of my apt.
Hasta chicos
Matt
2 comments:
Sweet tunes. The Fresh Prince song takes me back! I think I would prefer cool and overcast to this nasty humid crap any day. Cool thing for you is when you come back most of the heat will be gone and it will be time for football and falling leaves.
eeek.. I feel you pain, I miss the sun so mjuch in the winter months... and 1/2 my time in Bogota it was the same as Lima. Hang in there Matt!! :)
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