This post will be about the temperature controls in the capital city of Panama in Costa Rica. I will be talking about the affects that the latitude, elevation, wind, and nearby oceans have on the overall climate. I will also be talking about the rainfall patterns as well as the warmest and coolest months of the year in San Jose.
As I mentioned earlier, the capital of Costa Rica is San Jose. The latitude of San Jose is 9.55 degrees North and its longitude is 84.02 degrees West. The warmest moths in my city April, May, and June with an average monthly temperature of 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius), while the coolest months in my city are December and January with an average of 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celsius). Based on the information provided above, we can conclude that the annual range of temperature for San Jose is 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius). The website where I found this information is www.weatherbase.com.
One of the main temperature controls that affects San Jose is its elevation. The elevation, which is just under 4,000 feet, keeps the climate mild. The elevation of the city also keeps the range of temperature very moderate and helps the city remain a fairly constant temperature throughout the year. One of the temperature controls that does not affect San Jose is its cloud cover. Due to its location in Costa Rica, the city isn't harshly affected by the presence of clouds.
There is one major factor that could really affect the future temperatures of Costa Rica. That factor is the rise of sea levels. According to Al Gore, in An Inconvenient Truth, sea levels could rise up to 20 feet if the ice caps in Greenland completely melt. If this happens, much of the coastline of Costa Rica will become submerged which will make the country thinner. This will directly affect the weather in the center of the country because it will all become coastal climate instead of tropical.
As you can see, the climate is greatly affected by many temperature controls in San Jose and the rest of Costa Rica. Whether it is the altitude, the latitude, or the nearby ocean, they all have an impact on the overall climate of San Jose. Even with all of these temperature controls, however, it only takes one major weather event to change everything.
