For this
blog post, I've read and looked up many things specifically about Tanzania's
capital city and how the weather and area affects the capitals annual average
weather. Unlike my blog in the Climate page, I will be going a little more in
depth about climate in this specific city and tie it in with topics we've
learned and discussed in class like geographical position, differential heating
between land and water, and how altitudes affects temperature.
In my
recent post, I've stated Dodona to be the capital of Tanzania. However, Dodoma
has only officially been the capital city of Tanzania since 1996. This city is
where the President's office and national Assembly is located. Before Dodoma,
Dar es Salaam was the former capital city but is also the country's largest
city. Here is where most of the governments offices are, principal port, and
the leading commercial center.
Unlike
Hawaii's temperature, Dodoma's warmest month of the year is usually in
October/November with an average temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit
whereas the coldest months of the year is usually in June and July at 81-82
degrees Fahrenheit. In Hawaii, it is usually the opposite with the month of
July to be the warm, summer month and November being the ending of Fall and/or
beginning of Winter. The annual range of temperature in Dodoma during the day
is 81.2 degrees to 93.1 degrees Faherenheit and 62.1 degrees to 72.2 degrees
Fahrenheit during the night.
http://w-weather.com/Tanzania/Dodoma/monthly/
Latitude
plays a role on Tanzania and Dodoma's temperature. With the country's latitude
and longitude reading of 6 00' South and 35 00' East, Tanzania happens to land
in the equatorial temperature part of the world's heating. This part of the
world shows hardly "highs" and "lows" temperatures and
rarely fluctuates. In areas like this, there are no drastic changes with
seasons and temperatures all year as it usually would with places with higher
latitudes.
Ocean
currents don’t have an affect on Dodona's weather as much because there is no
large body of water close to the capital city. The capital is located in the
middle of the county and is next to a plateau and cropland. If Dodoma were
close to a large lake or close to the ocean, the water would help cool the
temperatures of the city throughout the year. Areas close to the ocean tend to
have cooler days and warmer nights, which isn't true about Dodoma's
temperature.
With global
warming being a big topic and issue, like any other city in the world, I
definitely agree that the weather in Dodoma will increase greatly especially
because of it's geographic position being in the hottest area of the world
close to the equator. Another key factor is the important Lake Tanganyika. This
lake is a good source for food and income to not only the people of Tanzania
but the other three countries bordering it. This lake accounts for 25 to 40 percent of the animal protein supply
for people living nearby. However, since 1993, the Lake's temperature has
increased by 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit to 2.3 degrees. With this little increase
in temperature, it has been seen that the biological activity in lake has
declined therefor threatens the sustainability of the Lake's fishing industry.
http://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-locations/lake-tanganyika-tanzania-africa.html
Overall,
there has been a lot more things I found out this time around than last blog.
It also was fun intertwining the things we learned in lectures to real life
situations and being able to understand how climates and temperatures ties in
with ocean currents or weather and geography. It's cool to see how our weather
in Hawaii can be similar yet all different to Tanzania's weather and climate
because of different factors like how we're surrounded by only water which
gives us a nice temperature all year.
