Considering the Weather when Traveling to Mexico

When traveling to Mexico, you must take into consideration the weather condition of the month or season you are planning your trip. This will ensure you that you will enjoy each day you’ll be in the country and not just stay indoors when in times of bad weather. Mexico unlike others perceived it to be is not an all sunny country, it is not always hot and in fact weather varies on each places.

Weather in Mexico is determined by the countries latitude and altitude. Being a country of terrains, weather varies in the different places. The country has numbers of tropical forests, valleys, deserts and mountains. That explains the different weather experienced in each part of Mexico. In general, Mexico’s coast climate is fairly pleasant all year round and only few have rainy weather, other times dry. In Mexico City, you may have days and nights.

Two Main Seasons

There are two main seasons in Mexico namely the Dry and Wet seasons. Rainy season is experienced during the month of May to September or can extend up to the month of October. You’ll experienced larger amounts of rainfall in these times and the rest of the remaining months will be fairly dry with few and lesser chances of rain. However, visiting Mexico during the rainy season can also be enjoyable. Rainy days provide more water for plants in the rainforests thus giving you lush green environment compared to when it is the dry season.

Hurricane Season

One thing you don’t want to experience during your vacation is natural calamities. This will not ruin your vacation but as well harm you if worse calamities occur during your trip. June to November is the hurricane season in Mexico. You have to check on weather bulletin for further reports if there are upcoming hurricanes or other natural calamities.

It is important that climate is one among the top consideration in planning your trip to Mexico. A lot of activities will be done when you are in vacation at a weather fair for travel. Getting around and travelling around the famous places and landmarks is more enjoyable on a sunny and fair weather. However, there are still good thing to see during the rainy season, those luscious green plants especially in the middle of the rainforests.

Facts about Your Rainforest

Coined as the Earth’s lungs but in reverse, rainforest “inhales” a large quantity of the earth’s carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a poisonous gas emitted by mammals.  We can attribute the clean air we breathe now with the rainforests.  As a matter of fact, tropical rainforests are the biggest terrestrial source of the air that we breathe.

Only 2 percent of the Earth is composed of rainforest yet it houses almost two third of all living species in the planet.  Also almost half of the medicinal compounds used by modern day medicines are found or made out of plants that can only be found in the rainforest. 

The biggest rainforests can be found in South America, at the Amazon Basin. In parts of Central America, Hawaii and Mexico, you will see smaller rainforests as well as in the islands of the Caribbean and the Pacific.  These rainforests has an average temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit and has rainfall of 160 to 400 inches in a year. This kind of condition makes the growing of plants abundant in the enclosure. 

Due to geographical location, the rainforest has become a better breeding ground and habitat for animals in the latter years. Before this day and age, animals are well protected by human hunting  and all human acts that can harm or lessen the number of different species of animals. There are nearly 50 to 70 million different life forms found in the rainforests back then.

Now, due to human acts and natural calamities, these life forms are gradually decreasing their number and some, nearing its extinction. Moreover, the rainforest itself is slowly destructed and we’re losing more and more of these natural habitat for animals as the years pass. There a study done by the Rainforest Action Network that an acre and a half of the rainforest is lost every day.  And if this rate continues, it is said that we can lose half of the remaining rainforest by the year 2025.

Here are some comparison and data as well comparing the loss of rainforests today and in the latter years:

Every second we lose an area the size of two football fields.

Every minute we lose an area 29 times the size of the Pentagon.

Every hour we lose an area 684 times larger than the New Orleans Superdome.

Every day we lose an area larger than all five boroughs of New York City.

Every week we lose an area twice the size of Rhode Island.

Every month we lose an area the size of Belize.

Every year we lose an area more than twice the size of Florida.

With these data, we can say that if we don’t act now in the conservation of our rainforest, we could not only lose the terrestrial formation but the living species like the flora and he animals that live in it as well.