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Brazil splits into
four distinct climatic regions. The coldest part - in fact the only
part of Brazil which ever gets really cold - is the South and
Southeast , the region roughly from central Minas Gerais to Rio
Grande do Sul, which includes Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Porto
Alegre. Here, there's a distinct winter between June and September,
with occasional cold, wind and rain. However, although Brazilians
complain, it's all fairly mild. Temperatures rarely hit freezing
overnight, and when they do it's featured on the TV news. The
coldest part is the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, in the extreme
south of the country, but even here there are many warm, bright days
in winter and the summer (Dec-March) is hot. Only in Santa
Catarina's central highlands does it occasionally snow.
The coastal climate is exceptionally good. Brazil has been called a
"crab civilization" because most of its population lives on or near
the coast - with good reason. Seven thousand kilometers of
coastline, from Paraná to near the equator, bask under a warm
tropical climate. There is a "winter", when there are cloudy days
and sometimes the temperature dips below 25°C (77°F), and a rainy
season, when it can really pour. In Rio and points south the summer
rains last from October through to January, but they come much
earlier in the Northeast, lasting about three months from April in
Fortaleza and Salvador, and from May in Recife. Even in winter or
the rainy season, the weather will be excellent much of the time. |
The Northeast is too hot to have a winter. Nowhere is the average
monthly temperature below 25°C (77°F) and the interior, semi-arid at
the best of times, often soars beyond that - regularly to as much as
40°C (104°F). Rain is sparse and irregular, although violent.
Amazônia is stereotyped as being steamy jungle with constant
rainfall, but much of the region has a distinct dry season -
apparently getting longer every year in the most deforested areas of
east and west Amazônia. And in the large expanses of savanna in the
northern and central Amazon basin, rainfall is far from constant.
Belém is closest to the image of a steamy tropical city: it rains
there an awful lot from January to May, and merely quite a lot for
the rest of the year. Manaus and central Amazônia, in contrast, have
a marked dry season from July to October.
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