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The highlands of Guatemala rarely ever feel searing hot. People from the highlands complain about the heat on the coast. They can't take it, they are not used to anything over 25c. It rarely if ever gets up past 30. On the coast it stays between 30-40. Never ever in my life heard of anyone refer to the highlands as "searing hot". Not even in March. If the highlands are too hot for you then you would more than likely die on the coastal plains.
If you want to get an idea of how localized rains and clouds tend to be in the DR, simply notice this take off from Santiago’s Airport heading to the eastern USA, probably NYC. Notice it takes off from a rainy Santiago, but very soon in the sky is noticeable that the cloud cover is broken. As is typical in the DR, the rain is from a localized cloud and not general. Then when the airplane is going northward and crosses the Northern Mountain notice there is hardly any rain clouds on the north coast. This is very close to each other, but it might as well be very far away.
In Florida it’s like this for the most part, but once you go further north in the continent (and the USA) rain is usually accompanied with a very large area covered in clouds. Usually, you can drive for miles from NYC and it will be cloudy and even raining all the way, never once seeing the sun. Sometimes it lasts days like that, but in the DR except when there is a hurricane nearby or the southern clip of a cold front that goes offshore from the USA, every day starts sunny with hardly any clouds.
A look at night temps in Central America, the Caribbean and Northern South America. Right now is around midnight in Cuba and much of Colombia, 1am in Puerto Rico and 11pm in many areas of Central America.
What in the world is happening in the western part of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico? That is too hot for this part of the night! Much of Central America was hot during the day, but it has cooled down at this point of the night.
Hispaniola has the most cool areas and the only cold areas in the Caribbean. Natural A/C. Lol That’s when cool air comes through the persians even in tropical areas, enough to require a blanket. Up in the mountains is worse! Lol
Cuba has the 2nd largest cool areas, though no cold areas. All of it is in its eastern extremity. I think Jamaica’s cool areas comes in 4th.
Puerto Rico has the 3rd largest cool areas in the Caribbean. In the Lesser Antilles the sizeable cool areas are in just 3 islands: Guadeloupe (France), Martinique (France) and Dominica.
Why is it still so warm in much of Venezuela and Colombia? These areas are not fully covered by cities and are not desert. An A/C is obligatory to have a good night sleep in much of those countries. Maracaibo is in a frying pan. Its not even summer yet. OMG If I ever end up living in Colombia, either its the mountains or forget it. I can deal with the heat during the day, but very warm nights outside of summer is a no no.
The highlands of Guatemla are never really searingly hot. Along the coast yes it gets extememly hot, but not in the highlands. Current temprature in Quetzaltenango is only 17c/64f.
Even the locals say "it's an oven" during what would be our late spring and summer months, in the highlands.
Even the locals say "it's an oven" during what would be our late spring and summer months, in the highlands.
Not really. March and April are the hottest months there and it never gets as hot as the coast. By our summer it is raining there and it gets quite cool in the highlands. The highlands are overcast and rainy for much of the year.
Are higher temperatures a reason for migration to the United States?
It might be a variable for some people like farmers living in areas with natural disasters caused by climate change, but, in general, no. At least in Colombia nobody emigrates to the US for these reasons.
It might be a variable for some people like farmers living in areas with natural disasters caused by climate change, but, in general, no. At least in Colombia nobody emigrates to the US for these reasons.
*yet
It will be a staggered occurrence. First, they'll abandon the countryside and join the legions of displaced people in low income areas of the cities and attempt to eke out a living. Then, they'll migrate to other countries for all the same reasons that people are doing it now. It will pick up in the coming years and decades.
"First, they'll abandon the countryside and join the legions of displaced people in low income areas of the cities and attempt to eke out a living."
That's been happening already for decades. Almost half of Colombian municipalities lost population, according to the last National Census. Colombian population is heavily concentrating in large and medium sized cities. Decades ago the majority of the population was rural, now it's less than 20%.
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