January Monthly Mean Temperature of Trujillo
June Monthly Mean Temperature
Addios Trujillo, Hasta la proxima vez!
Now that our trip is coming to an end, let us go over the fun facts on the city of Trujillo weather!!!
The charts above take us through a history of weather in Trujillo. The first chart covers twenty-five years of January temperatures in the city. The second chart follows the month of June.
Remember, Trujillo is a desert city near the sea, which leaves it open to El Nino. In the past El Nino has come through the city causing landslides, floods, and disease. In 1998, massive flooding allowed for the river to carve its way through the city's cemetery, carrying bodies into the colonial town square. Too Sad!
As we know, the city has a mild desert climate. According to the Köppen Climate classification BWh and BWk. If you don't remember Köppen's method, here is a quick review.
According to Köppen, BWh and BWk are type B climate, which is the only one not defined by climate. Instead Type B defines climate in which the controlling factor on vegation is dryness. Sound familiar? YES, because that is similiar to Colorado weather. Cool right?
So what about the Wh and Wk??? Since aridity is defined by the relationship between the precipitation input to the soil (where the plants grow) and evaporation, Köppen had to introduce terms that could identify aridity into an temperatue-precipitation index. This lead to dry climates getting divided into: Arid - BW and Semiarid - BS
With the added third code (h) representing warm and (k) for cold!
So now we know that Trujillo is a Dry Arrid warm and cold type! So what about other places?
My classmate Matthew Ruggieri observed the mid-latitude climate of Saugerties, New York.
Compared to Trujillo's year long sunny and pleasant weather, Saugerties has cold winters and hot summers. So typical New York weather. However the warm Gulf Stream brings in warm currents which leads to a precipitation increase. Unlike the desert city where it is dry, Saugerties is more of a wooded grassland area.
Although both cities are far away they still share many similiraties. Although Saugerities is affected by the cP air mass and Trujillo is affected by the mE, they both are influened by the mP and mT air masses. Lastly our two cities, live near a mountain and a river, (not planned).
