Which of the following weather would provide the biggest "climate shock" for a visitor from Lima, Peru? (snowy, hottest)
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I thought about it and Chicago would be the biggest temperature difference so probably Chicago.........but it will still depend on the individual Peruvian...
I thought about it and Chicago would be the biggest temperature difference so probably Chicago.........but it will still depend on the individual Peruvian...
Here's how I arrived at my answer. Peru probably has hot deserts far inland near the base of the Andes, much like California's set up. Miami is a nobrainer, just go into the interior provinces into the Amazon and voila. Seattle....well Lima itself can be very drizzly when it does rain according to the Peruvian that seemed to have fallen off the face of the Earth. Coastal Lima is basically like L.A., except much drier and cooler. but, go inland and the temps increase as the mountainous terrain blocks cool Pacific air from infiltrating further. The only thing left would be Chicago, which Peru has nothing resembling it
You have a guest visiting from Lima, Peru, the place with the most boring, consistent weather in the world; cloudy majority of the time with temperatures ranging from 55 to 80 F all year round with very low standard deviation. Less than an inch of rain a year, even though there are 60 days of drizzle each year, it's mostly in the form of less than 0.01 each day. Getting even 0.10 in a single day happens once a year at the most. An inch of rain a day is unheard of.
Which of the following climate/weather occurrence would be the biggest shock for them?
A) A day in Phoenix in July with the blazing sun and temperatures of 112 F in the middle of the day
B) A day in Chicago in January with snow falling and temperatures of 15 F.
C) A day in Miami in July with blazing sun and humidity with a temperature of 90 and a heat index of 100 F at noon followed by a heavy thunderstorm with a downpour of 2 inches of rain in an hour from 3-4PM.
D) A day Seattle in January with a cold and windy steady moderate rain all day with temperatures in the low 40s throughout the day. Total is an inch of rain but it falls steadily throughout the day with no sunny breaks.
E) A day in Los Angeles in May (similar weather to Lima in summer), running into spoiled, rich celebrities behaving badly in public.
correction july in miami is actually not that rainy. we typically get a 2-3 week period where dust from the sahara desert dries things out and makes the sky hazy. As a result we often experiance heat waves during this time
correction july in miami is actually not that rainy. we typically get a 2-3 week period where dust from the sahara desert dries things out and makes the sky hazy. As a result we often experiance heat waves during this time
But it's still a "normal" occurrence to have a two inch downpour in July; right? The Peruvian guest arrives the night before the downpour in this scenario.
But it's still a "normal" occurrence to have a two inch downpour in July; right? The Peruvian guest arrives the night before the downpour in this scenario.
during the first 2 weeks it would be normal but after that it becomes dry.
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