What is the average rainfall in Ecuador?

Answer 1

The average annual rainfall in the northern part of Ecuador is between 2,500 and 3,000 millimeters. However, in the southern coast the average rainfall is 300 millimeters.

Answer 2

Owing to the influence of the Andes, Chile's annual rainfall varies immensely since the winds in the north are the reverse direction from those in the south.

In the north, there is literally no rainfall owing to the powerful upwelling created by the subtropical high and the Peruvian Upwelling, which creates a temperature inversion and suppresses precipitation enough to allow 6,700 metre high Llullaillaco to be the highest glacier-free mountain in the world.

Between 27˚S and 40˚S, rainfall in Chile increases steadily from around 50 millimetres (2 inches) to 2,000 millimetres (80 inches). This rainfall is concentrated in a rainy season ranging in length from two months (June, July) in the Norte Chico to seven months (April to October) in Concepción. Annual rainfall may vary greatly, being typically highest in El Niño years: for instance in Santiago annual rainfall has ranged from 825.7 millimetres (32.5 inches) in 1900 to 66.1 millimetres (2.6 inches) in 1924. Owing to the expansion of the Hadley circulation from increased levels of CO2, CH4 and N2O, rainfall over the central part of Chile has declined by up to 40 percent since the late 1960s.

Southern Chile is in the westerly wind belt ("Furious Fifties") year-round, and is always cool and very wet except for some rain shadow areas (e.g. Chile Chico, Punta Arenas) which may have as little rainfall as Santiago. Coastal areas of southern Chile may have as much as 5,000 to 6,000 millimetres (197 to 236 inches) of rainfall, which on the higher mountains translates to 50 to 60 metres (1,970 to 2,362 inches) of snow. As a result, tidewater glaciers exist as far north as 46˚S.

Answer 3

Owing to the influence of the Andes, Chile's annual rainfall varies immensely since the winds in the north are the reverse direction from those in the south.

In the north, there is literally no rainfall owing to the powerful upwelling created by the subtropical high and the Peruvian Upwelling, which creates a temperature inversion and suppresses precipitation enough to allow 6,700 metre high Llullaillaco to be the highest glacier-free mountain in the world.

Between 27˚S and 40˚S, rainfall in Chile increases steadily from around 50 millimetres (2 inches) to 2,000 millimetres (80 inches). This rainfall is concentrated in a rainy season ranging in length from two months (June, July) in the Norte Chico to seven months (April to October) in Concepción. Annual rainfall may vary greatly, being typically highest in El Niño years: for instance in Santiago annual rainfall has ranged from 825.7 millimetres (32.5 inches) in 1900 to 66.1 millimetres (2.6 inches) in 1924. Owing to the poleward expansion of the descending limb Hadley circulation via increased levels of CO2, CH4 and N2O, rainfall over the central part of Chile has declined by up to 40 percent since the late 1960s.

Southern Chile is in the westerly wind belt ("Furious Fifties") year-round, and is always cool and very wet except for some rain shadow areas (e.g. Chile Chico, Punta Arenas) which may have as little rainfall as Santiago. Coastal areas of southern Chile may have as much as 5,000 to 6,000 millimetres (197 to 236 inches) of rainfall, which on the higher mountains translates to 50 to 60 metres (1,970 to 2,362 inches) of snow. As a result, tidewater glaciers exist as far north as 46˚S, whereas in the northern hemisphere the most equatorward tidewater glaciers are at 56˚N in Alaska.

Answer 4

The southern coast of Chile is one of the wettest places on Earth, and probably has the highest proportion of wet days of any place on Earth owing to the violent, circum-Antarctic "Furious Fifties", which hit the Andes and drench the region almost continuously.

In the wettest parts of the coast around Puerto Eden and Bahia Felix, the average annual rainfall is between 5,000 and 6,000 millimetres (200 to 240 inches). It falls on all but two days per month, year round, and consecutive dry days are exceptionally rare.

Answer 5

In northern Chile, rainfall is quite abundant, getting about 3000 millimeters per year. During summer months, Chile receives about 200 millimeters per month.

Answer 6

1.2 inch

Answer 7

9.0 9.0

Answer 8

30