One more year we stand at the gates of September thinking about what little we have left of summer. Our parents and grandparents always told us that as we get older Does time pass faster. How right they were! And this year, given the circumstances, even more has been noticed.
With the arrival of month of September we meet one of the times of more change of the whole year. You have to go back to work and go back to school, for example. There is no other remedy. But it is also a time of change in terms of time. The first heavy rains typical late August are usually a warning. Then comes the drop in temperatures. Who does not remember the first days of school wearing the long pants and the sweater for the first time in several months.
The transition from the heat of summer to the cold of autumn is not gradual. We went through a real roller coaster that puzzles more than one when leaving home. A good example already we have it around the corner. In places where until recently we were hot, it will be time to bundle up. But after these days, nobody believes that the cold stays. The heat will return. And there is too much to do, but possibly another thermal crash awaits us later. An authentic headache for meteorologists and spectators.
The crazy transition from hot to cold (and vice versa)
In our country there are two seasons that they usually leave us a more stable time what others. Summer and winter, which sometimes make us very long, usually show consecutive days of stability, or instability, but with temperatures that are always in the same line, both cold and warm.
Not the same with autumn and spring. Both stations are characterized by sudden temperature changes in a short time, as well as the sky status. These are the two times when most complicated is to make a weather forecast several days ahead given the variability that exists. It is also true, in their defense, that they are the stations that leave us a more bearable temperature for the human body, away from the scorching heat of summer and the terrible cold of winter.
Unfortunately, both autumn and spring, responsible for making the link between the two most extreme seasons, do not make this transition progressively. Air masses that now in september they come from the north and they produce the first thermal collapses, as well as the tongues of warm air that they look out from Africa in the spring they come suddenly, never gradually. The first of them is reaching us right now.
The sea, transition smoothly
Everything discussed above has an exception: the sea. Oddly enough, all the changes from one season to another that we could qualify as abrupt and traumatic are not suffered by our seas. Everything is thanks to a quality of water: its high heat capacity.
It is this property of water on which the hot water bottle. A great invention that our ancestors enjoyed and that we discussed in tiempo.com in this article. The water held hot for many hours inside the bag and prevented them from being cold at night. They are still found today in some stores and on the internet.
He sea water he is able to hold its temperature for a long time. In this way, when we get to the month of September, and sometimes until October, we find the hottest water of the whole year. It costs a lot to cool down. The same happens in June and early July. Despite the heat, the sea water is still very cold.
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