So, something i was writing in other thread gave me this idea. Was looking at a chart of temperatures in Buenos Aires this year from Janary till June, and i thought it could be a good idea to rate it month by month, and also talk about how hot/cold above/below averages our city temps have been this year.
Buenos Aires climate in 2012 so far:
January: Horrible. UBER HOT (and average high of 32c is just pushing it too much, come on!
), super sunny, the lows were insane (average low of 21 celsius is just too much too handle
). The hottest days of the year happen this month (a real temp of
39 celsius, that day the absolute low was 28.8!!!
), i had the worse headache of my life for those days with those temps, the heat index was always out of control, and we had NO cold/cool/warm days or night to cool off: every single day was hot and sunny, not one day with temps going below 28c. Plus: i had to go through this hell in an apartment with no A/C, with giants windowns full of sun in the morning at one side/sun in the afternoon at the other/sun in the roof (12floor last floor of a building) in the middle, sauna like insaness, having to bear temps of more than 110 f inside EVERY FREAKING DAY. I was also without a fan in the middle of january (mine broke
) for like 20 days. This months was the worst month of my life climate wise and an awful experience i never forget.
F-.
February: Basically, it was as bad as January, but instead of being super sunny, it was super rainy and humid. Temps were insanely hot as well. The first 20days of february had to be the hottest days on record of any february in history in BA, but the last 10 days redeemed it a bit: the first break from the heat in the whole summer: 10 sunny days with highs in the 25s, lows in the 15s. However, those 20 first days were that horrible, and i had horrible episodes (like fainting, getting heat strokes, going to the hospital) cause of the heat, and the heat index was also wacko going out of control to above 40c temp due to the humidity, that it was overall such a horrible experience, that im gonna rate it with an
F. (Those 10 last days save it from a -).
March: I dont remember it as vividly as Jan and Feb
, but i know it had to be bad, cause i remember we had a SEVERE coldwave at the end of March that brought temperatures as low as 7 celsius!
. Still, even with the coldtwave, temps turn out to be average, so im guessing the first half of march was hot, but surely not as hellish as the two previous months. Still, is a summer month, uncomfortable, and very prone to +30c temps, but it least it had the coldwave, wich was very refreshing after bearing hellish temps since november. Rating:
C-.
April: It ended up being an average month in highs and lows, but it had a very curious behaviour. It was very very super uber warm for the first 21 days, actually very uncomfortable, with temps usually in the high 20s, and it even reached 30c (well, 29.9, wich is kinda the same
) in april the 7th. So, first 21 days april was awful and very very warm to hot. But the last 10 days of april we had a severe coldwave, wich brought temps to be as low as 4 celsius!
(wich is very low for april, in wich averages are 14/24) and had the LOWEST HIGH IN THE LAST 70 YEARS (12.9 high on the 28th). So, it ended being a very crappy month. I mean, we had a very very warm and even hot april, and in the end a very cold one, wich in reality we should have had a more moderate, still warm but moderate month, with nice sunny afternoons and lovely cool nights. The average low for april was almost 1c above average including the heatwave with those 4/5 celsius minimum, so the first 21 days we ve had A LOT of 20celsius night, wich is insanely warm and not something i wanna live when we are well into autumn! Really crappy month: i give it a
D.
May: ugh, may was awful!
. Basically, we had a May with a 3c ABOVE AVERAGE LOW!!! (wich is insane, actually!) and +1,3c above average high. It was the 6th warmer May in history. Im not surprised
. Temps in may ended up being 13.2/20.6 and consider this is a very well into autumn month, so its insanely hot. It was also very humid and very cloudy. We had a record of 11 days without sun, wich is very rare here. Nights were also super hot (hence the 3c above average low). It wasnt as unstable as april: it was actually a very stable/all warm month. If you see the chart, you will see that average low in May (an autumn month, COLDER month than april in theory) was WARMER than april and the record lows for COLDER in april. Thats cause april had a cold spell, and may not only didnt have a cold spell, it didnt even have cool days (maybe one or two), it was a very warm month that made you wonder when the hell is autumn gonna come? (answer: in June, probably). It had one or two nice days in the beggining of the month (means: colder). Anyway: i give May a
D-.
June: June was what May should have been: Sunny (actually very sunny!), cool and lovely. The average high for June was warmer than average (no wonder, just like every freacking month
) at almost 17 celsius, and we had some 20c+days and even 2 or 3 20c night (wich sucks actually). But, most of the time, June weather was lovely. Did i said it was sunny? It was common to find 10 to 13 celsius sunny day this June. Even 8c sunny days in the cold spell we ve had in the beggining. Nights were lovely, with a couple of crisp 2 or 3 celsius nights, and the humidity wasnt as high as one could have expected in May. It almost didnt rain at all and that was fine. It had a couple of uncomfortable days/nights with temps above 20c and humidity, and for that i rate it with a
B +, wich is way better than those other crappy months we had to deal with. Overall a very nice month. I would have rated it with an A if it was colder.
July overall is being wonderful, so i hope it continues that way
.
Conclusions:
*all months have been above average
, in some cases very much, and specially in the lows.
*year has been overall very sunny with 2 remarkable exceptions (May and Feb, who were also very humid and above average)
*BA doesnt have a real winter and autumn is more like an extended summer. June isnt a reliable month for cold anymore, and May is so warm that its almost warmer than April.
*Clearly winter is my favourite time of the year where i live
.
Overall year rating:
D.
Veredict:
too hot.
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