Re: Mediterranean climate regions rainfall data
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Mediterranean climate regions rainfall data
- From: J* A*
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:07:13 +1100
At 20:42 Monday 30/10/00 -0800, Jason wrote:
>What other areas of the tropics have winter rainfall
>peaks? I've heard the coast of NE Brazil does as well.
>Any data out there?
But does NE Brazil have "winter" and "summer"? It's around ten degrees
nearer the equator than Hawaii. If it's cooler during the wet season, it'd
have to be more due to extra cloud cover than to any change in day
length. I'd reckon you could no more speak of it as "mediterranean" than
you can of those parts of East Africa (Kenya etc), which have wet seasons
in Nov and Feb (northern winter) and hardly any rain in the northern summer
-- or the similar situation in the dryer parts of SE Indonesia and Papua.
John.
