July 2, 200521 yr So what climate does KL have officially?? VERY warm most of the time, like 33-35 celcius(spelling?)
July 2, 200521 yr Author What I meant was - what climate is it CLASSED as, e.g. Monsoon, Tropical, Temperate..........................?
July 2, 200521 yr Here rains a lot but it doesn't annoy me too much. Weather is very, very cool all the time tough, 10 - 20°c.
July 2, 200521 yr What I meant was - what climate is it CLASSED as, e.g. Monsoon, Tropical, Temperate..........................? temperate me thinks :embarrased: :idea2:
July 2, 200521 yr Not if it's 33-35 all year round, it isn't!! Bah, you tell me! :angry: I seriously have no idea what it's called :embarrased:
July 2, 200521 yr :/ Not a teacher, just having some common sense. Doesn't annoy you to live there? I mean for the high temperatures?
July 2, 200521 yr Doesn't annoy you to live there? I mean for the high temperatures? A lot :rolleyes: Like I have to carry an umbrella whenever I go out, no matter rainy or sunny day, and my skin is freaking dark, eww :angry:
July 2, 200521 yr Dullsville most definitely. Although my volleyball club is pretty cool :D YOUR volleyball club? :rolleyes: :P But it's cool, hell yeah :cool: and because this "Kaff" is so dull and small, everything is within walking distance :smug:
July 2, 200521 yr Doesn't annoy you to live there? I mean for the high temperatures? A lot :rolleyes: Like I have to carry an umbrella whenever I go out, no matter rainy or sunny day, and my skin is freaking dark, eww :angry: Many people "would die" for having darker skin. ;)
July 2, 200521 yr Author Malaysia is hot and humid throughout the year, with temperatures from 21ºC to 34ºC. Rainfall averages about 100 inches throughout the year. There are two monsoon seasons, from May to September in the South West, and from November to March in the North West, but rain falls throughout the year, mainly in the afternoon. So - Malaysia officially has a MONSOON climate, as I suspected. So if that's the case, why is Kuala Lumpur any different?? :huh:
July 2, 200521 yr Author Definition A monsoon is defined as a seasonal shift in wind direction, being derived from the Arabic word "mausim", meaning season (3). The word itself does not mean heavy rain, although the misnomer is not baseless. In a true monsoon climate, seasonal wind shifts typically cause a drastic change in the general precipitation and temperature patterns. However, the monsoon may also be associated with dry weather as well, since the "wet" monsoon phase of warm, moist air is seasonally replaced by a "dry" monsoon of cool, dry air. This phenomenon is the dominant feature of low-latitude climates stretching from West Africa to the western Pacific Ocean (fig. 1). To understand why these are favored areas, we need to discuss some of the driving forces behind monsoons and the Earth's weather in general. The annual monsoon cycle can be physically described as a result of the annual variation of incoming solar radiation and the differential heating at the surface of land and water. This has been recognized for hundreds of years, as Webster (4) noted in his discussion of monsoon dynamics. Simply stated, sections of the earth's surface heat and cool at different rates depending on their ability to absorb solar radiation and the time of year. Bodies of water, which can absorb sunlight at varying depths (and consequently reflect less back to the atmosphere), store energy more efficiently than land and therefore retain heat longer than a land mass. Land surfaces gain or lose heat at a quicker rate due to the shallowness of their absorbing surfaces. To maintain an energy balance, heat is transferred from areas of surplus to deficit, and in the case of a land-water differential, this is accomplished through a phenomenon known as the "land-sea breeze". For example, on a sunny day at the beach, the land warms more quickly than the ocean. As the hot air rises over the land, it is replaced by the cooler air over the water. At night, however, the land cools at a quicker rate than the water, so the wind shifts, blowing from the land to the warmer water (fig. 2). On a larger scale, such as a continent surrounded by oceans, heat build up on land over time will result in lower density air masses, or areas of low pressure. Conversely, denser air associated with high pressure dominates ocean surfaces. Wind and ocean currents that result from air flowing from high to low pressure mix areas of warmer and colder air and water, contributing to the global energy balance. This exchange is evident at different levels of the atmosphere. Air converging into a low pressure center at the surface rises, leading to moisture condensation and the subsequent release of heat into the upper atmosphere. Diverging air at the surface in a high pressure center is associated with subsiding air from the upper atmosphere and evaporation, a mechanism for energy storage. Just as energy imbalances develop between land and water surfaces, the variation in space and time of solar heating due to the earth's tilt create seasonal hemispheric energy imbalances. The hemisphere receiving the most direct radiation (during the summer months) experiences a net radiative heating (more energy is gained from the sun than is lost to space). The winter hemisphere is at the same time experiencing net radiative cooling. As part of a global compensation, heat is transported from warmer to cooler areas by ocean and wind currents. Since the areas of heat surplus and deficit change throughout the year, as in the sea breeze example, the direction of transport must change as well. Figure 3 shows low latitude surface wind directions averaged over the summer and winter seasons. As noted earlier, climates dominated by monsoons experience the most pronounced seasonal wind shifts, indicative of a pronounced land-sea effect. In the South Asian example, the rainy season, typically beginning in June, is preceded by nearly two months of scorching temperatures, cooled only with the commencement of the summer rains brought by the southwesterlies. January is the peak of the dry season, which is marked by cool, dry northeasterly flow over most of the region. :smug:
July 2, 200521 yr Author Charles ASKED for it - he shouldn't have doubted me - but he'll learn in time!! :P
July 2, 200521 yr thanks i try.... :blush: by the way i live in the sticks so does that make it dull? i would say a 7/10
July 2, 200521 yr Andover - 4/10 Entertainment - Pubs, Pubs, Pubs, Nightclub, Bowling place, Pubs, Pubs, leasure centre, and did I say pubs? Shopping - Card shops, mobile phone shops, pubs, banks, gardening centres. Car parking - £1 an hour Andover is a crap place to be near.
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