Climate Battle: Apia, Samoa vs Lima, Peru (hot, warm, temperatures)
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I'll pick Apia over Lima. Lima has awful sun hours and gets almost zero rain - almost no interesting weather to be found in Lima. Apia's rainy season looks epic as well - 20 inches in one month - even if it is a bit too hot and humid. I give Apia a C and Lima an E-.
Apia is warm for its latitude, even in the tropics - essentially an equatorial climate at 14ºS!
Last edited by Omegaraptor; 12-28-2018 at 02:06 PM..
Lima has better temperatures and isn't a hot equatorial climate. So, even though it's not very sunny, at those temperatures and the sun strengths being so brutal on that latitude. Therefore I feel like there's no choice here, comfortable win for Lima (C+ vs E+).
Apia's bad. Same temperatures all year, no seasons, always the same tropical heat and moisture. But at least it's a typical bad. As in, there's plenty of other climates out there in the same score range. At least Apia's year round climate would make a passable summer.
Lima is so bad that it warrants a negative score. That's right, NEGATIVE! Pretty much everything a climate can do wrong, Lima did - in spades. This isn't just a bad climate, this is literally among the worst the planet has to offer, in the same league as Vostok. There is NOTHING good about Lima's climate!
-No winters
-Very small range of temperatures in general
-Managed to somehow have both too little sun AND virtually no precipitation
-28 hours of sun in a month with 0.04 inches of precipitation?
-Atrocious seasonal lag; June is warmer than October!
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