Climate Information: Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Society

Climate information is increasingly relevant to society. (Infobae/Jovani Pérez)

The type of climate that exists in a certain place is determined by different conditions, including altitude, latitude, orientation of the relief, distance from the sea and sea currents, giving guidelines to the so-called “meteorological time” which in turn is supported by in other elements such as temperature, pressure, wind, humidity and precipitation to outline the atmospheric conditions in a location in the short term.

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To classify the climate, the system developed by Wladimir Köppen is generally used, although there is also the Thornthwaite system, the latter which also takes into account biological diversity and the effects of climate change on it. Others such as Bergeron and Spacial Synoptic focus on the origin of the air masses that define the climate of a region.

Due to climate change, the planet is currently in a redistribution process in which any modification, however minimal, in the average annual temperature causes changes in habitats and their conditions.

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In this context, here we leave you the weather for Bogotá this Sunday, March 3.

In Bogotá a maximum temperature of 22 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 10 degrees Celsius is expected.

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As for rain, the probability of precipitation for this city will be 61% during the day and 25% at night.

In the same sense, cloudiness will be 80% during the day and 73% during the night. While wind gusts will reach 28 kilometers per hour during the day and 20 kilometers per hour at night.

Be careful in the sun, ultraviolet rays are expected to reach a level of up to 12.

The weather forecast in Bogotá (Illustrative image Infobae)

Being located in the Eastern mountain range of Colombia, that is, in the Andean zone of the country, the Colombian capital has a mainly cold and dry climate.

The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) assures that the city has an average temperature of 13.1 degrees Celsius.

During the day, the maximum temperature ranges between 18 and 20 degrees Celsius; while at night, the low temperature decreases between 8 and 10 degrees Celsius.

However, at the beginning of the year, temperatures drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius.

Bogotá has two distinct rainy seasons: from March to June and from September to December, with April being the month with the most rain. During these times, everything from torrential rains to hail and electric shocks happen.

For its part, the dry season runs from January to February, as well as from July to August, with the first month of the year being the driest. During these times, sunny and hot days are recorded, with a blue sky and few clouds.

The city of Bogotá has a mainly cold and dry climate. (Bogota City Hall)

The weather in Colombia is very diverse, the climate is modified due to its geographical complexity such as the coasts of the Caribbean Sea to the North, the current of the Pacific Ocean, as well as the mountain ranges that cross it through the center from north to south.

According to IDEAM there are at least four types of climate in the country: tropical, dry, temperate and cold high mountain.

In the case of tropical climates, four subtypes are identified: rainforest or equatorial, rainforest or monsoon, savannah with dry winter and savannah with dry summer.

The tropical rain forest or equatorial covers areas such as the center and north of the Amazon, the entire Pacific Region, parts of Antioquia, western Santander, Boyacá and Cundinamarca, the Catatumbo area and the Amazon foothills. While the tropical rain forest or monsoon reaches the plain foothills and the southern extremes of the Caribbean region.

The savannah with dry winter includes most of the Caribbean and Orinoquia region, as well as the low areas in Santander and Antioquia. As for the savannah with dry summer. adds the inter-Andean valleys in Tolima, Huila, Valle, Cauca and Nariño.

For the dry climate, in Colombia the very hot arid or desert and the very hot semi-arid or steppe are perceived. The first is perceived in the upper part of Guajira and the second in the middle and lower zone of the same department plus sectors of the Caribbean coast.

The temperate climate is felt in the middle and lower areas of the three mountain ranges of the Colombian country; while the high mountain cold, as its name suggests, in the upper levels of the three mountain ranges.

2024-03-03 09:22:40
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