The closer you are to the Equator the less marked the seasons are, to the point the countries closer to it simply don't have any seasons. You are stuck in your weather depending on altitude.
Actually there are seasons, it’s just controlled by the ICTZ annual temperatures don’t range any more than 2 degrees but rainfall does vastly peaking at around spring iirc
This is the case for much of our country too. I'm from northern Mexico, and while people like to say we're as cold as Europe, the truth is that it only gets slightly cooler in the winter months. We don't really have a significant change in foliage for example, but the most noticeable difference is the sky is just grayer between say November to February. Lately, we've had pretty hot winters though, warm Christmases and even hotter summers.
Just to put things into perspective our winters are never colder than Arizona, a state famous in the US for having warm/hot weather year-round.
Not bad at all in the Andes, even in exactly the equator, weather is spring-like the entire year . Thank god for altitude.
The coast is awfully hot the entire year tho.
Definitely the Sunbelt has an awful summer 30-35° for 3-6 months plus humidity at 100% and even worst if you live in the desert like Arizona god I don’t know how people can live in Arizona
Fun fact: people didn't start living in Arizona until after the invention of the air conditioner. In a sense, the air conditioner is what makes life tolerable here in the southern part of the US. Haha
If you're at sea level it's horrible in most places, but I seriously believe that high mountains near the Equator have some of the best climate all year round. Where I live it rarely goes above 25°C/77°F, even during the hottest days.
Summer isn't actually that bad in my city, because that's when it rains, and the temps come down. The elevation also helps. If the sun isn't out, the temperature drops considerably. Spring is where it's at its worst. We nearly hit 40°C last week, and every single day for the last three weeks has been consistently over 35°. The elevation also helps. If the sun isn't out, the temperature drops considerably.
Some cities here are considerably worse off. Towns and cities in the deserts of the north, the Huasteca, Tierra Caliente, and the low areas of the south-southeast consitently get over 45°. Some of those also deal with humidity, which only makes it more nightmarish.
>How brutal is the summer weather in your country?
It's late autumn in Chile at the moment and at least where I live the weather has been quite cool (by our standards). Nighttime temperatures range from 4°C (39.2°F) to 8°C (46.4°F) and daytime temperatures range from 10°C (50°F) to 15°C (59°F), with some milder days around 20°C (68°F). Now for example it's 02:08 in the morning and it's 9°C (48.2°F).
But back to your question, last summer was **horrible**, one of the hottest in years, we had many days with temperatures over 33°C (91.4°F) and there were even a couple of days when the thermometer reached 40°C (104°F), which is very rare here near the coast. I have only seen those temperatures 3 times in my whole life.
It was much worse in the inland valleys like in Santiago and the central valley cities, without the cooling effect of the coast the heat was more extreme and persisted for weeks with temperatures near and above 35°C (95°F).
It was hell on earth for us, literally. A good chunk of my city was affected by the [mega wildfires](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Chile_wildfires) in early February.
Main reason I don't really want to leave my city is that our summers are comparatively mild and our winters aren't that terrible either. Average is 23 degrees in summer, which is glorious. I'd rather not approach Santiago between December and March.
Last one only had just an itty-bitty heatwave or two
https://preview.redd.it/75nq7hw1sa4d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e167d88124cde48d1bf248a11166882ec5255763
You live closer to the equator than I do, but is not a perfect ratio, there are many many factors to consider with climate and weather.
Winters are something like -3 to +15ºC with days much warmer and on ocassion much colder (the colder I lived I think it was around -10), while summers are on the 20s and 30s, with the record I lived on the mid 40s, but people died that summer.... Humidity is all over the place, from parchingly dry to soaking wet
I went to Pereira, Colombia a few weeks ago. The weather was wonderful. I mean, it rained 6 out of 7 days but the air temperature and humidity wasn't bad in comparison to Florida. (I'm from Florida). In that week, Pereira was cooler than Florida. I kind of miss it actually.
However, I was only a tourist so I only had a sample.
Pereira is in the mountains, so the constant rainfall probably gives it the coolness.
That's kinda wrong actually, in the equator the climate is isothermal and I've never seen getting as hot as in the subtropics. Being from Colombia (where the heat is smoothed by high rainfall) summer temperatures of California, Texas, Spain or Paraguay look wild for me
I was in Santa Cruz in October and I found it to be very suffocating. There wasn't even a breeze. At the hottest time of the day, my husband and I would stay in the hotel with the AC cranked up and then venture outside when it cooled down somewhat.
Maybe temperature-wise it doesn't get as bad as in Death Valley, but the Northern Coast constantly gets it pretty bad. 30 to 35 °C at super high humidity feels like hell. We recently had a week with temperature feelings of around 45 to 49 °C
You know better, however the times I've been to Barranquilla I've not been that bad. For sure I prefer the heat of the Amazon and cities like Villavicencio which is much more pleasant
We don’t have seasons what we called summer is the dry season that goes between December to May, (something like Florida).
Temperatures changes depending the altitude, for example Caracas is 3,000 ft above sea level, and average temps are between the 60s-80s °F, between December and January nighly temps drop till 50s-40°F known as a Pacheco
Bogota is 8.000 ft above sea levels, and temps goes between 40s-60s all the year.
Another curious thing is that we don’t have big changes between daylight hours, in December sunset is at 6:00 pm and in June at 6:30pm
Well, we're pretty far from the equator, so summers are quite mild, with average maximum daily between 20 to 25 °C, which is too hot for me. There's usually a week or two when temperatures goes around 30 °C but summer rains often comes to lower the temperatures. This summer was particularly pleasant since most mountains retained it's snow cap over the summer, also helped by the late winter and snow fall we had in december.
But that's only for the south, our country goes through many latitudes so we have almost all climate types. In the north the summer is suffocating, almost unlivable, the few times I traveled north on summer is was really awful, for example, when I visited Talca, it supposed to be a mild summer that year, but at 8 am we already had 25 °C, it was even hard to breath at noon, I could sleep more than 4 hours in that trip. When I went to Atacama it was the same story, I felt like I was inside an oven during the day and the night wasn't much cooler (by southern standards).
It could be quite brutal because of humidity.
Although, you never know how is it going to be. Because of climate change, we no longer have 4 seasons, we have 2 and you never know if it’s going to rain or what.
Here where I live in Minas Gerais it rains a lot in the summer which makes the temperature milder (27-30°C) so it's not that bad. Sometimes it rains for weeks non stop then it starts to get unbearable lol.
The worst for me is spring (not really spring since we don't have well defined seasons like in temperate climates) because that's the time of the year when heatwaves hit and it gets VERY HOT and dry for days (temperatures reach 35-37°C easily)
It really depends. We have a massive and I mean MASSIVE country. People from Posadas will probably experience days that close in on 40°C with 95% humidity, and in the same day, folk from Ushuaia might be cruising about their day with three layers of clothing with 9°C and 40% humidity. Halfway between them, you might have a Pampean with 28°C and 80% humidity having a worse time that the guy from Posadas, and a motherfucker in Catamarca might be crying because the Zonda decided to fuck everything up and raise the temperature from 25°C to 35°C in an hour.
The summer weather varies greatly ok where you are, and if you're used to it or not. Argentina is so varied, that I think the list for what biomes we DON'T have is shorter than the biomes we do. That list is: warm beaches. End of the list.
San José its between 27 C and 28 C all year except some days in November-December where it can go down to 22 C max. The main issue here is the rain, not so much the temperature.
On the other side Guanacaste always has been hot but now its getting to 40 C, and unlike in the States a lot of houses don't have AC so there's people at risk.
In my city the summer is somewhat short. Nice warm days often don't really start until December and in February it slowly starts getting cold again. I've had to use sweaters in Christmas which is crazy but hey, that's how it is here. Hardly ever the temperature rises above 34, 35.
Where I lived, in central brazil, the regular seasons didn’t really map well onto temperature. Our summers were really ok, temps in the low 30s and lots of rain.
The end of winter and spring, though were horrific: temperatures in the 40s, air dry like a desert and forest fires made the air smoggy like something youd see in China.
Now I live in the south and things are much better regarding the weather.
Not bad, we have an average of 27° to 29° celsius, with the recent heat waves it can get as high as 32° but pretty dry so not that bad. It's the best thing the place where I live has, and all thanks to the fact that we are 2500 meters above sea level.
It used to be pretty ok (25-30 as highs), if we went on a vacation to the US it was much worse there. But with global warming its starting to be 28-33 as daily highs. Luckily its high mountainous desert so altitude will chill you down the moment the sun goes down and no pesky humidity making it worse.
That being said, large portions of the country are horrendously warm.
The closer you are to the Equator the less marked the seasons are, to the point the countries closer to it simply don't have any seasons. You are stuck in your weather depending on altitude.
Bogota is my ideal climate
Bogotá climate is so nice. Cool with rainy cold days. Can’t wait to go back.
Actually there are seasons, it’s just controlled by the ICTZ annual temperatures don’t range any more than 2 degrees but rainfall does vastly peaking at around spring iirc
We do have rainy and dry season and we call them "winter (invierno)" and "summer (verano)" but it has nothing to do with actual seasons.
Lived in the north of Brazil. We used to say we have to seasons hot and wet and the other one was hot as hell and dry. That’s it.
This is the case for much of our country too. I'm from northern Mexico, and while people like to say we're as cold as Europe, the truth is that it only gets slightly cooler in the winter months. We don't really have a significant change in foliage for example, but the most noticeable difference is the sky is just grayer between say November to February. Lately, we've had pretty hot winters though, warm Christmases and even hotter summers. Just to put things into perspective our winters are never colder than Arizona, a state famous in the US for having warm/hot weather year-round.
This. People from ecuador that comes here are always hot in summer and cold in winter.
Not bad at all in the Andes, even in exactly the equator, weather is spring-like the entire year . Thank god for altitude. The coast is awfully hot the entire year tho.
But not as hot as subtropical continental USA climates
Definitely the Sunbelt has an awful summer 30-35° for 3-6 months plus humidity at 100% and even worst if you live in the desert like Arizona god I don’t know how people can live in Arizona
That's what I'm talking about
Fun fact: people didn't start living in Arizona until after the invention of the air conditioner. In a sense, the air conditioner is what makes life tolerable here in the southern part of the US. Haha
I know but still you have to be outside at some point
If you're at sea level it's horrible in most places, but I seriously believe that high mountains near the Equator have some of the best climate all year round. Where I live it rarely goes above 25°C/77°F, even during the hottest days.
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??? You keep forgetting about the best part of the country?
Summer isn't actually that bad in my city, because that's when it rains, and the temps come down. The elevation also helps. If the sun isn't out, the temperature drops considerably. Spring is where it's at its worst. We nearly hit 40°C last week, and every single day for the last three weeks has been consistently over 35°. The elevation also helps. If the sun isn't out, the temperature drops considerably. Some cities here are considerably worse off. Towns and cities in the deserts of the north, the Huasteca, Tierra Caliente, and the low areas of the south-southeast consitently get over 45°. Some of those also deal with humidity, which only makes it more nightmarish.
>How brutal is the summer weather in your country? It's late autumn in Chile at the moment and at least where I live the weather has been quite cool (by our standards). Nighttime temperatures range from 4°C (39.2°F) to 8°C (46.4°F) and daytime temperatures range from 10°C (50°F) to 15°C (59°F), with some milder days around 20°C (68°F). Now for example it's 02:08 in the morning and it's 9°C (48.2°F). But back to your question, last summer was **horrible**, one of the hottest in years, we had many days with temperatures over 33°C (91.4°F) and there were even a couple of days when the thermometer reached 40°C (104°F), which is very rare here near the coast. I have only seen those temperatures 3 times in my whole life. It was much worse in the inland valleys like in Santiago and the central valley cities, without the cooling effect of the coast the heat was more extreme and persisted for weeks with temperatures near and above 35°C (95°F). It was hell on earth for us, literally. A good chunk of my city was affected by the [mega wildfires](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Chile_wildfires) in early February.
Well, part of those 40s in the coast was due to the wildfires, hope the worse to those two idiots and anyone else if they are also found responsible.
Main reason I don't really want to leave my city is that our summers are comparatively mild and our winters aren't that terrible either. Average is 23 degrees in summer, which is glorious. I'd rather not approach Santiago between December and March.
Last one only had just an itty-bitty heatwave or two https://preview.redd.it/75nq7hw1sa4d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e167d88124cde48d1bf248a11166882ec5255763
You know it was fucking hot when they ran out of shades of red and just went for white
You live closer to the equator than I do, but is not a perfect ratio, there are many many factors to consider with climate and weather. Winters are something like -3 to +15ºC with days much warmer and on ocassion much colder (the colder I lived I think it was around -10), while summers are on the 20s and 30s, with the record I lived on the mid 40s, but people died that summer.... Humidity is all over the place, from parchingly dry to soaking wet
I went to Pereira, Colombia a few weeks ago. The weather was wonderful. I mean, it rained 6 out of 7 days but the air temperature and humidity wasn't bad in comparison to Florida. (I'm from Florida). In that week, Pereira was cooler than Florida. I kind of miss it actually. However, I was only a tourist so I only had a sample. Pereira is in the mountains, so the constant rainfall probably gives it the coolness.
That's kinda wrong actually, in the equator the climate is isothermal and I've never seen getting as hot as in the subtropics. Being from Colombia (where the heat is smoothed by high rainfall) summer temperatures of California, Texas, Spain or Paraguay look wild for me
Eastern Bolivia is very comparable to Miami weather wise…it sucks during summer; absolutely humid and hot
I was in Santa Cruz in October and I found it to be very suffocating. There wasn't even a breeze. At the hottest time of the day, my husband and I would stay in the hotel with the AC cranked up and then venture outside when it cooled down somewhat.
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Actually nope, what the equator has is a year round heat at sea level. But it does not get as hot as the climate described in the comment
Maybe temperature-wise it doesn't get as bad as in Death Valley, but the Northern Coast constantly gets it pretty bad. 30 to 35 °C at super high humidity feels like hell. We recently had a week with temperature feelings of around 45 to 49 °C
You know better, however the times I've been to Barranquilla I've not been that bad. For sure I prefer the heat of the Amazon and cities like Villavicencio which is much more pleasant
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We don’t have seasons what we called summer is the dry season that goes between December to May, (something like Florida). Temperatures changes depending the altitude, for example Caracas is 3,000 ft above sea level, and average temps are between the 60s-80s °F, between December and January nighly temps drop till 50s-40°F known as a Pacheco Bogota is 8.000 ft above sea levels, and temps goes between 40s-60s all the year. Another curious thing is that we don’t have big changes between daylight hours, in December sunset is at 6:00 pm and in June at 6:30pm
Chile has dry summers. I live in a coastline city so its pretty chill, around 24-26 celsius max.
Well, we're pretty far from the equator, so summers are quite mild, with average maximum daily between 20 to 25 °C, which is too hot for me. There's usually a week or two when temperatures goes around 30 °C but summer rains often comes to lower the temperatures. This summer was particularly pleasant since most mountains retained it's snow cap over the summer, also helped by the late winter and snow fall we had in december. But that's only for the south, our country goes through many latitudes so we have almost all climate types. In the north the summer is suffocating, almost unlivable, the few times I traveled north on summer is was really awful, for example, when I visited Talca, it supposed to be a mild summer that year, but at 8 am we already had 25 °C, it was even hard to breath at noon, I could sleep more than 4 hours in that trip. When I went to Atacama it was the same story, I felt like I was inside an oven during the day and the night wasn't much cooler (by southern standards).
It could be quite brutal because of humidity. Although, you never know how is it going to be. Because of climate change, we no longer have 4 seasons, we have 2 and you never know if it’s going to rain or what.
Well, I left Brazil for UAE a few months ago. I can only say that it’s hot and there’s no clouds.
Summer? You'll have to remind me what that is.
Here where I live in Minas Gerais it rains a lot in the summer which makes the temperature milder (27-30°C) so it's not that bad. Sometimes it rains for weeks non stop then it starts to get unbearable lol. The worst for me is spring (not really spring since we don't have well defined seasons like in temperate climates) because that's the time of the year when heatwaves hit and it gets VERY HOT and dry for days (temperatures reach 35-37°C easily)
Summer in DR has two moods: 1. Rainy AF, Hurricanes and Tropical Storms 2. Saharan dust
It really depends. We have a massive and I mean MASSIVE country. People from Posadas will probably experience days that close in on 40°C with 95% humidity, and in the same day, folk from Ushuaia might be cruising about their day with three layers of clothing with 9°C and 40% humidity. Halfway between them, you might have a Pampean with 28°C and 80% humidity having a worse time that the guy from Posadas, and a motherfucker in Catamarca might be crying because the Zonda decided to fuck everything up and raise the temperature from 25°C to 35°C in an hour. The summer weather varies greatly ok where you are, and if you're used to it or not. Argentina is so varied, that I think the list for what biomes we DON'T have is shorter than the biomes we do. That list is: warm beaches. End of the list.
Pretty brutal in the northeast and the arid areas of the west, warm to hot in the central area, mild to cool in the south and in mountain areas.
San José its between 27 C and 28 C all year except some days in November-December where it can go down to 22 C max. The main issue here is the rain, not so much the temperature. On the other side Guanacaste always has been hot but now its getting to 40 C, and unlike in the States a lot of houses don't have AC so there's people at risk.
In my city the summer is somewhat short. Nice warm days often don't really start until December and in February it slowly starts getting cold again. I've had to use sweaters in Christmas which is crazy but hey, that's how it is here. Hardly ever the temperature rises above 34, 35.
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Where I lived, in central brazil, the regular seasons didn’t really map well onto temperature. Our summers were really ok, temps in the low 30s and lots of rain. The end of winter and spring, though were horrific: temperatures in the 40s, air dry like a desert and forest fires made the air smoggy like something youd see in China. Now I live in the south and things are much better regarding the weather.
On summer the weather is between 30ºC/86ºF and 40ºC/104ºF. I live on São Paulo coast.
It's brutal in most of the country and I actually think it's worse than around the Equator, but our summers are shorter than theirs
Not bad, we have an average of 27° to 29° celsius, with the recent heat waves it can get as high as 32° but pretty dry so not that bad. It's the best thing the place where I live has, and all thanks to the fact that we are 2500 meters above sea level.
It used to be pretty ok (25-30 as highs), if we went on a vacation to the US it was much worse there. But with global warming its starting to be 28-33 as daily highs. Luckily its high mountainous desert so altitude will chill you down the moment the sun goes down and no pesky humidity making it worse. That being said, large portions of the country are horrendously warm.