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A bit of meteorology and a strange summer 2010

This 2010 has begun very differently, gone are the sunny days of summer here in Lima, even on Sundays, it was always obvious that the presence of sunlight in the Peruvian capital, although this can not be proved scientifically, but it was certainly a summer Sunday without the sun? was very strange years and decades past.

This 2010 does not cease to enjoy the sunshine throughout the week in most of the capital, except in some districts are on the outskirts of Lima, but they are located over 500 m and according to the predictions of many agencies this summer will be very different from the previous.

reading the reports we are experiencing a Fenomeno El Niño "mild", together with the Humboldt or Peruvian (cold water) has been slightly interrupted by warm water currents such as Kelvin waves (planetary waves) with greater intensity in the center Peruvian coast (Lima region), causing precipitation (a year INCI rained almost 50% of the annual average 10 mm) and cloudiness (perceptible even today.)

Meteorology is interesting to understand and explain these phenomena, last year I spend almost more than half of the year to dig entire chapters of this science to end I have been writing some articles related to area of \u200b\u200bhydrology (reason for not updating this blog for a long time). One of the most interesting and didactic pages on the web I could find was this:

http://www.meted.ucar.edu/index_es.htm (in English)

http://www.meted.ucar.edu/ (English)

You will find whole classes of intermediate to advanced on meteorology and climate science. Website in English is almost complete in terms of papers translated into English but the site is 100% complete with classes and papers. Just register for free and ready.

Below an educational video of the phenomenon El Niño, I think it is very basic but interesting, should not be taken too lightly know what a child is capable, but we know they had children apocalyptic for South America in 1877 / 1878 (Aceituno, 2008)

Source: Diario El Comercio

Implcancias of El Niño in the region (Source: FAO)