In the age of climate change, a hot summer day can quickly turn into heavy rain that causes flooding in just minutes. It is therefore increasingly common for people to try to prepare for temperature fluctuations.
Below the weather report expected in the next few hours for Cartagena de Indias:
the probability of rain for this Wednesday in Cartagena de Indias it’s 90% day and 90% all night.
During this time, cloudiness will be 98% during the day and 99% at night.
As for temperature a high of 30 degrees and a low of 25 degrees are expected in this region. Ultraviolet rays should reach a level of up to 6.
While the gusts of wind will reach 32 kilometers per hour during the day and 18 kilometers per hour at night.
Although it is located on the northern coast of Colombia, very close to the Caribbean Sea, the climate of the city of Cartagena is semi-arid, characterized by being hot and dryalthough the breeze makes it a little pleasant.
In Cartagena, the mean temperature Annually around 27 degrees Celsius, according to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM).
During the day, the Maximum temperature It fluctuates between 31 and 33 degrees Celsius. While at dawn the minimum temperature drops to 24 and 25 degrees Celsius.
Cartagena reports a long rainy season and short dry season throughout the year.
There Rainy season It runs from May to November, with October being the rainiest month.
For its part, dry days for Cartagena, they are from December to April, with January, February and March being the driest.
The weather in Colombia is very varied.he the climate is modified due to its geographical complexity just like the coasts of the Caribbean Sea in the north, the current of the Pacific Ocean, as well as the mountain ranges that cross it from the center from north to south.
According to IDEAM there are at least four types of weather in the country: tropical high mountain, dry, temperate and cold.
In the case of tropical climatesfour subtypes are identified: rainy or equatorial jungle, rainy or monsoon forest, dry winter savannah and dry summer savannah.
He tropical rainforest or equatorial It covers areas such as the central and northern Amazon, the entire Pacific region, parts of Antioquia, western Santander, Boyacá and Cundinamarca, the Catatumbo region and the foothills of the Amazon. During this time he rainforest or monsoon it reaches the foothills of the plains and the extreme south of the Caribbean region.
There savannah with dry winter includes most of the Caribbean and Orinoco region, as well as the lower sectors of Santander and Antioquia. In reference to savannah with dry summer. It adds the inter-Andean valleys of Tolima, Huila, Valle, Cauca and Nariño.
For him dry climatein Colombia on very hot arid or desert and very hot semi-arid or steppe. The first is perceived in the upper part of the Guajira and the second in the middle and lower zone of the same department plus sectors of the Caribbean coast.
He mild climate it is felt in the middle and lower areas of the three mountain ranges of the Colombian country; During this time he high mountain coldas the name suggests, in the upper levels of the three mountain ranges.