Postby Hyperion » August 27th, 2015, 8:24 pm
Allyuh can't remember studying the weather in school?
August and September are always the hottest months of the year in Trinidad. For some strange reason people equate rain with lower temperatures, that is an incorrect association.
Trinidad is about 10 degrees north of the equator, at the height of summer in June the sun is farthest north at 23 1/2 degrees north. After June the sun begins its descent southward towards the tropic of capricorn at 23 1/2 degrees south, it reaches this latitude in late December. This coincides with winter in the northern hemisphere. In August and September the sun is directly overhead our latitude, hence the heat.
(The sun does not really move between the latitudes, it is the earth that is tilted on its axis; as it makes its annual revolution around the sun the sun is focused on different latitudes at different times of the year.)
Another major factor contributing to the perception of heat is the high humidity that occurs during our rainy season. Total cloud cover causes a pressure cooker effect, in that heat and humidity are trapped between the surface and the clouds, and heat cannot dissipate into the atmosphere.