Climate forecast in Asunción before leaving home on August 3

Goodbye to uncertainty, know the weather conditions in Encarnación

Beyond checking the weather forecast to know what to wear or whether or not to carry a raincoat, the weather report It is an instrument that has become fundamental for various sectors such as the transportation (by sky, sea and land), agriculture, tourism, disaster prevention, public health and even to carry out military operations.

But if by itself predicting the weather could be complex. Added to this is another variant: climate change, which has made the need to stay up to date even more urgent in order to act and adopt public policies that reduce disaster risks such as alerts about floods, droughts, freezing waves, a bad landing and other related phenomena.

In this context, here The weather report for the next few hours in Encarnación this October 27:

In Encarnación it is predicted a maximum temperature of 30 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 18 degrees Celsius.

As for the rain, the probability of precipitation for this city will be 3% during the day and 13% at night.

In the same sense, cloud cover will be 44% during the day and 9% during the night. While the gusts of wind They will reach 28 kilometers per hour during the day and 32 kilometers per hour at night.

Be careful in the sun, ultraviolet rays are expected to reach a level of up to 11.

Incarnationone of the southern cities of Paraguay, is characterized by having a humid subtropical climate where summers are hot and winters tend to be cool and humid. The average annual temperature is 20.5 degrees.

In Encarnación, summer tends to be even muggyHowever, the river shores can be cool at night. In contrast, winter is not so extreme and gives the possibility of warm days, allowing the thermometer to drop to 10 degrees. Frost is common in areas on the outskirts of the city.

Like almost the entire Paraguayan territory, something that is replicated in this area are its constant rainfall throughout the year either in the form of heavy rains, showers or light drizzles. Due to the presence of humidity It is common for fog to also occurespecially during the fall and winter seasons.

Among the historical climatological data we have that on July 18, 1975 snow fell for the first time in the city; Before, on September 20, 1926, a storm that arose on the Paraná River destroyed a large part of the metropolis.

According to the Köppen classification, Paraguay is characterized by having at least three types of climate: humid subtropical in the southern part of the Eastern region; tropical savannah in the Western region and north of the Eastern region; as well as the warm semi-arid in the northwest of Chaco.

In this South American country The average annual temperature is between 20 and 25 degrees. Although rainfall is common in almost the entire territory, the amount varies depending on the region, although summer is the season in which the most rainfall accumulation is recorded.

During the summer in Paraguay the thermometer can reach 40 degrees, being the historical record of 45 degrees in 2009. On the contrary, in winter the temperature can drop to zero degrees, being -7 degrees the record in 2000.

In Paraguay the seasons are not completely defined and due to this and its proximity to the Tropic of Capricorn On average there is a difference of 10 degrees between the warmest month and the coldest month. Autumn and spring are particularly unstable.

Due to climate change Paraguay’s ecoregions are currently vulnerablesince the country is considered one of the nations that most resorts to deforestation and soil erosion. Journalistic investigations indicate that the country lost 90% of its original forest cover in the last five decades, mainly due to livestock and agricultural activities. In 2009 the Chamber of Deputies rejected the “Zero Deforestation” project that sought the prohibition of this action.