South of the Equator 2012: The Weather

The weather in Sorocaba is classed as sub tropical. What that means is its hot all the time; someday's its bloody hot - up in the 90's. At night it drops a bit, but not that much; or at least it doesn't feel like much.Sub tropical also means its wet. If its not p***ing it down heavy enough to actually hurt as it hits you with only a thin shirt on, its 'heavy' and 'sticky'; almost immediately you can start to feel the sweat forming on your back. We have been caught out in the rain a few times during our end of night 'treks' up the hill to our hotel but by that time we are usually past caring. Getting a taxis going out somewhere is easy from the hotel and is cheap enough so we use them when we need to and lets face it nobody want to sit in a nice restaurant with a puddle under their chair for any reason. Coming home is more of a problem but we are the crazy English who walk everywhere according to the people we work with, so what the hell. Trying to

Quick...get in a bar before it starts!

sleep in these conditions can be a bit of pain as the aircon is too noisy to leave on all night and if you open your windows the constant traffic noise keeps you a wake anyway. All you can do is try to make the most of it and take lots of showers and use the hotel laundry service every couple of days.

(the video below is taken at the Emersion site we work at each day - sorry its the wrong way round!)

Sorocaba

The climate………

It is a little known fact that Sorocaba is 653m above sea level.....this is enough to make the atmospheric pressure (and hence oxygen content) only 93% of normal. We had thought that poor sleep and pathetic endurance walking to and from the hotel up the hills was due to post-Christmas weight gain, together with the temperatures being in the high 80’s during the day and the mid 70’s at night. We were wrong. Its not all ‘brain frying’ sunshine though, some days it rains and we have thunder and lightning although the temperature doesn’t drop much. The rain comes down in gallons and gallons and roads are instantly flooded but almost as quickly as it comes down the great cavonus storm drains along the roads swallow it up. These are the sort of drains you see in scary movies were there is something living down there just waiting to grab your ankles as you walk past.

South of the Equator 2012

The Weather

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