Rate São Paulo Climate (hot, warm, records, warming)
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Hi there, I couldn't stay out of this "rating wave" so, I want you to rate the climate I'm under. All data posted below didn't come from any inetrnacional meteorology website, but they're records from the last couple of years, as Global changing is taking place fastly:
month minimun(celsius/fahrenheit) maximum rainfall(millimeters, 25mm=1 inch)
Jan:
20º(68F)
29º(84F)
350mm Feb:
20º(68F)
30º(86F)
300mm Mar:
18º(64F)
27º(80F)
180mm Summer explanation: Beginning of the year always goes pretty sunny and hot but it's almost sure that at the end of every afternoon a heavy shower will hit São Paulo causing floods and mudslides around city. Not rare people die by them. It mostly happens when a ZCAS(portuguese for South Atlantic Converging Zone-massive clouds coming both from sea and Amazon bringing around 4 inches of rain within 6 days) stays over us. Highs on that season got 33º(91F) and lows 16º to 18º(60 to 64F).
Apr:
16º(60F)
25º(77F)
100mm May:
13º(55F)
22º(71F)
70mm Jun:
12º(53F)
21º(69F)
35mm Falls explanation: Drastic reduction of rainfall and warm are normal patterns of that season. April days still resembles summer with temperatures hitting 31º(87F). But from May on, cold waves start coming from Antartic giving us an opportunity to shake our bodies. Days are fullified with sun, but humidity levels decrease and pollution starts getting attention. Lows get something like 8º to 10º(46 to 50F) on late May.
Jul:
12º(53F)
22º(71F)
55mm(very hard to define a pattern here) Aug:
12º(53F)
24º(75F)
---?????(impossible define any pattern) Sep:
14º(57F)
25º(77F)
70mm Winter explanation: Most hardtime for us to take. Not because of cold(which is almost nothing)but, because of low humidity levels(-30%) plus with pollution, with causes many kinds of breathing diseases and gets hospitals crowded. At this point, rain, so usual and expected, turns into a dead memory on our minds. We usually go through 30 dried days. And we don't know on which month that's gonna happens. Some years it comes in July, others in August. The opposite also happens and we have a wet month bringing up to 3 inches. Days are totally sunny with local haze and pollution. Temperatures get down under a cold wave reaching 6º to 9º(42 to 48F)but just for a really few days(3). Highs reach 28º(82F) at little summer(english for "veranico"-period with no cold fronts over here) and 12º to 14º(53 to 57F) at coldest days when São Paulo feels like Europe.
Oct:
16º
26º
140mm Nov:
17º
27º
100mm Dec:
18º
28º
220mm Spring explanation: Humidity gets up, and so does the storms. But that's the time when we set the year's highs, 34º(93F), chilling cold says goodbye at september endings when we have 10º(50F). ZCAS return by December and often screws up our Christmas and New Year's Eve with unstoppable rain and overcast sky.
That's it. Rate it. A means great and E stands for horrible.
The temperatures don't seem that bad and the storms must be good to watch but I give it a C- for the lack of any real winter weather, the hot/cloudy combination (if it's warm I want it sunny, hot and cloudy don't work well together IMO) and I don't like the sound of those mudslides and winter pollution either.
A-, it seems very similar to Miami's weather, only with cooler summers and winters. If it was just the winters, they're a bit too chilly for me and it would be a B, but the perfect summers balance it out and give it an A.
A-, it seems very similar to Miami's weather, only with cooler summers and winters. If it was just the winters, they're a bit too chilly for me and it would be a B, but the perfect summers balance it out and give it an A.
But your cold fronts are as bad as mine. If I'm not wrong, Miami got 44F(7C) on last January. That's same temp. we have seen on last years. Since I started watching for São Paulo climate, the lowest I've been to was september 2007 when we got 6,1ºC(42,9ºF). Here you have data from Aug. 2010 when coldest front of that year was above us.
See? It isn't that bad and warming recovers fast.
If you want it warmer, just move to Santos, a beach city 50miles down with temps more likely Miami, if you want it cooler go up to Campos do Jordão(1600mts), among mountains 100 miles away, where by that day(Aug. 16th) temps were rounding 32F with frost on.
We are the second most cloudly capital past Curitiba. But I assure you at summer you got sun and hotness. At least until 3pm when skyline starts darkening like this:
...and this
And after that, streets gets flooded as you can imagine
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