Temperature, probability of rain, clouds and ultraviolet rays are some of the information you need to know before leaving home. (GlobeLiveMedia/Jovani Perez)

Coat and umbrella or light clothes and cap? If you don’t know what clothes to go out with this Wednesday, here it is weather forecast for the following hours in Bogotá.

This Wednesday’s weather in Bogota will reach 18 degrees, while the minimum temperature it will be 9 degrees. The forecast for ultraviolet ray levels is 6.

As for the rain the probability of precipitation for the said city it will be 98%, with 90% cloudiness, during the day; and 25%, with 80% cloudiness, throughout the night.

During this time, wind gusts will reach 26 kilometers per hour during the day and 20 kilometers per hour at night.

Being located in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, that is to say in the Andean zone of the country, the city of bogotá has a mainly cold and dry climate.

He Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) ensures that capital has a mean temperature 13.1 degrees Celsius.

As the day progresses, the Maximum temperature it fluctuates between 18 and 20 degrees Celsius; while at night the low temperature decreases between 8 and 10 degrees Celsius.

However, at the start of the year, temperatures can drop to minus 5 degrees Celsius.

Bogota scored two rainy seasons: from March to June and from September to December, April being the rainiest month. In these times, everything from torrential rains to hail and electric shocks occurs.

For its part, the dry season it extends from January to February, as well as from July to August, the first month of the year being the driest. At this time, there are sunny and warm days, with blue skies and few clouds.

    Bogotá has a mostly cold and dry climate.  (Bogota City Hall/File)
Bogotá has a mostly cold and dry climate. (Bogota City Hall/File)

The weather in Colombia is very variedhe the climate is altered 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.

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