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The common precipitation regime of the Andes is a rainy summer season from October to April and a dry winter from May to September. [15] Snow is common at elevations of more than 3,800 m (12,500 ft). The city of Puno at that elevation has snow 14 days per year on average and it has snowed in every month of the year except November. [17]
Per the World Bank (2017) [1] [2]; Country mm/ year) Continent 1 Colombia 3,240: South America: 2 São Tomé and Príncipe 3,200: Africa Tuvalu 3,200: Oceania: 3 Papua New Guinea 3,142 ...
The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile. The climate is characterized by hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. [10] A steppe is a dry grassland. [11]
Colombia map of Köppen climate classification. An uncommon hailstorm in Bogotá on March 3, 2006, product of a combination of altitude (low temperature at an altitude of 2640 meters above sea level) and precipitation. The thunderstorms of the Intertropical Convergence Zone form a line across the eastern Pacific Ocean and over Colombia.
The passage of the cold front to the northeast leads to the movement of the high pressure system from the South Pacific Ocean into the southern tip of South America. [ 27 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] All of these conditions lead to strong anticyclogenesis to the east of the Andes and thus, the high pressure system intensifies as it enters southern Argentina.
La Niña refers to cooling of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures along the equator west of South America. Those changes in water temperature affect tropical rainfall patterns that in turn ...
A dry season with a noticeable amount of rainfall followed by a rainy wet season. In essence, this version mimics the precipitation patterns more commonly found in a tropical monsoon climate, but do not receive enough precipitation during either the dry season or the year to be classified as such.
The heaviest rainfalls goes between April and May and snow season goes all through Chilean winter (June till September), although the average temperature does not descend below 1 °C in coastal areas. This is the coldest region of South America. Puerto Natales in Zona Austral is the city with most rainy days per year in Chile, averaging 161. [8]