In times of climate change, a hot summer day can quickly turn into pouring rain that causes flooding within minutes, so it’s increasingly common for people to try to prepare for temperature swings.
Below the weather report expected in the next few hours for Piura:
The probability of precipitation for this Saturday in Piura it’s 45% during the day and 25% all night.
During this time, cloudiness will be 89% during the day and 100% at night.
As for temperature A high of 31 degrees and a low of 24 degrees are expected in this region. UV rays should reach a level of up to 8.
While the gusts of wind will reach 33 kilometers per hour during the day and 15 kilometers per hour at night.
In the department of Piura, at least eleven types of climate are recorded, highlighting the weather conditions arid and hot, as well as temperate, with little humidity.
Piura is located in the north of Peru, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and on the border with Ecuador. Hence its mostly dry climate.
The climate which has the greatest extension over the whole department is arid.which runs from the west side on the coast of the Pacific Ocean covering the provinces of Talara, Sullana, Paita, Sechura and Piura.
The easternmost area of the department, further from the coast and higher, is where there is the most climatic diversity, where the weather changes from arid to semi-arid, semi-dry, and even in some parts it becomes rainy and very rainy.
The climate in Peru
In Peru, up to 38 types of weather are feltaccording to the National Meteorology and Hydrology Service (Senamhi), this is due to the interaction between different climatic and geographical factors.
These main factors, details the Senamhi, are its geographical position on the Tropic of Capricorn and the proximity of the Andes mountain range.
Among the 38 climates, Senamhi highlights three main which are defined according to the area of the country in which they are located.
On the coast of the South American country, which meets the Pacific Ocean and covers barely 11.6% of the national territory, the weather prevailing there is arid and temperatebeing its main climatic characteristic the rarity of the rains.
In the sawthe area close to the Andes and which occupies 28.1% of Peruvian territory, the climate is rainy and cold mostly.
While in the junglewhere the tropical climate of Peru is most filled, occupying 60.3% of its surface, the weather is defined as very rainy and hot.