The latitude and longitude of South Africa is 30 degrees S and 25 degrees E in the Southern Hemisphere. South Africa resides in the mid-latitude cell. The Westerlies blow for South Africa and the prevailing wind direction is NW. An anticyclone, which is a High pressure system, travels over the country during April. The Horse Latitudes are located near South Africa. The 30 degrees S is the line for the Horse Latitudes and South Africa lines up with it.
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Because of the wind patterns of Westerlies and the anticyclone, South Africa tends to be warm and due to the latitude of 30 degrees S, it has a desert and is very hot and dry. The anticyclone makes the area very sunny with little clouds so it gets hot in the day time.
South Africa has mountains and winds associated with mountains are mountain breezes, katabatic winds, anabatic winds, foehn winds and valley breezes. I think that South Africa can experience all of those types of winds depending on the weather and season. There is a coastline and the breezes are land and sea breezes. South Africa can experience both.
I posted about Russia's local wind and couldn't mention anything about doldrums or horse latitudes. I see you were able to include one of them in your post. Russia covers a huge amount of land and it has several areas from which you could chose an individual wind pattern direction.
ReplyDeleteSouth Africa experiences just about the same weather and climate as Ethiopia. It is a higher pressure area though, in comparison to Ethiopia which is in the middle of the high and low pressure areas. South Africa also experiences more wind movement and much cooler air compared to Ethiopia, as it is right on the coastline. It is also much farther away from the equator than Ethiopia, so we can expect South Africa to be much cooler.
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