Thursday, February 18, 2016

Temperature Controls in the City of Honiara in Solomon Islands

So I'm sitting here trying to come up with an introduction to this blog post about temperature controls in the city of Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, but then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all three cultural areas could stop them. But when my blog needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and me, myself and I discovered the new Avatar, a Melanesian with a great introduction. And although his introduction is great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to blog anything. But I believe, he can save my blog. On a serious note, the capital city of the Solomon Islands is Honiara. The latitude is 9.4351 degrees south and the longitude is 159.9512 degrees east.

The warmest month is January with an average monthly temperature of 80.6 degrees fahrenheit. The coldest month on average is August with an average monthly temperature of 78.8 degrees fahrenheit. I know it's not a big difference but that's just how the climate is there (Climatemps). Based on the above demographics, the annual temperature range is just 1.8 degrees fahrenheit.

Honiara is located on the northwestern coast of the island of Guadalcanal and since the Solomon Islands are located in the southern hemisphere, the temperature variation is a lot lower. Due to the geographic position of the Solomon Islands, the warm ocean currents warm the air and make it really hot and humid year-round. In Honiara, the altitude does not affect temperature controls because the elevation is only 95 feet.

In the future, I believe my country's temperature and climate will have very little to no change at all. The temperature may rise slightly per decade because of the pattern of global warming. It will continue to rise in the future, as well as the sea surface temperature because of the sea level rising warms and expands it. With hotter days, the Solomon Islands will then see a decrease in cooler weather. It's also predicted that the Solomon Islands will have more extreme rainfall days, and tropical cyclones will be more intense but happen less frequently (Pacific Climate Change).        

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