City of Fog - The Climate of Lima, Peru

LIMA, PERU. A nation's capital. A sprawling city of 10 million people. This city lies between some of the highest peaks in the world, and the planet's largest ocean. The world's only major city to exist in a desert within the tropics, it is host to one of the world's most peculiar climates. A city of mild temperatures, rolling fogs and almost no rain, this is the world's tropical desert metropolis.

🕐CHAPTERS🕖
👉0:00 Introduction and Titles
👉0:48 Geographic and climatic overview
👉1:52 Main causes
👉2:43 Effects on climate
👉3:41 Meterological explanation
👉5:37 Koppen classification
👉6:36 Civic drought handling
👉7:36 Outro

In this video, look at one of the world's rarest sub-climates, the relatively mild desert of the Peruvian coast, and that nation's capital, Lima, lying squarely within this zone. We explore how it is that this city, only 12 degrees from the equator, experiences virtually no rain, on account of the Andes blocking tropical trade winds, and the cold Humboldt ocean current keeping waters much colder than normal for the tropics, and dramatically affecting local weather.

I take an in-depth look as to why so much fog rolls over this city, and yet, despite all this humidity, it almost never rains. The answer is in hydrology and how rain is formed (or not formed in this case, due to, among other things, an inversion layer).

And yet despite the parched conditions, the city has grown into a metropolis, with water piped down from the Andes. More rural communities along the coast, however, have resorted to ingenious means in which to make the desert "rain"...

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Research and Media Procurement Assistance, Spanish CC Translation: Richard Torres

Narrated, Written and Produced by
B.J.Ranson

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