El Salvador

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Video 1 - Transcription

So the weather in El Salvador varies greatly depending on where you are at. It is usually very hot and very humid. One of my areas, it rained a lot during the rainy season with a lot of big thunderstorms. I mean, there are times where we would hold the umbrella and the umbrella would only keep our neck and above dry. Everything else just got soaked. There were other areas where there was quite a bit of lightning. Some areas, there's one area that was actually high up in the mountains so it was really cool, which is nice after spending a lot of time in some of the hotter areas. But be prepared for weather that can sometimes change very quickly depending on the area. It is very beautiful. I remember taking a lot of pictures of some beautiful cloud formations that occurred in some of my areas.

Video 2 - Transcription

The weather in El Salvador is tropical, that's why the majority part of the time is hot but also we have winter from May to September and also from October to January is windy.

Video 3 - Transcription

The rainy season is super unpredictable. I mean, there's going to be crazy rain, like the rainstorms are insane. I've never seen rain that hard. And so it was really actually kind of fun. My very first day, there was a huge rainstorm and I was caught in it and it was, it was just really fun. But you can also expect a lot of heat, a lot of humidity, and probably hardly any cold days. But I would definitely bring an umbrella for the rainy season. But I wouldn't worry too much about getting like a jacket just because even when it's raining, it's still pretty hot. And the heat will rise, like you'll see the vapor coming from the street because it's so hot outside. And then it just cooled down for a little bit. It's kind of cool.

Video 4 - Transcription

As far as the weather goes here, it's usually super humid. I never, I didn't bring a straightener or blow dryer or anything because it's just super humid, super hot. You'll be sweating all the time. They do have seasons where it rains a lot and you'll be literally swimming in the streets because there's so much rain. But for the most part, it's usually very hot. It actually is a little bit of clouds. But no, it's usually extremely hot and it also depends on which areas you go to. But for the most part, be prepared to sweat a lot and just embrace the humidity.

Video 5 - Transcription

There's two seasons, there's a dry season and there's a rainy season and in the dry season it's basically dry like the like the like the name of the season and it's also really hot and since El Salvador is a third world country there's a lot of houses that do not have air conditioning and it's just it gets crazy hot in the in the dry season especially during March and those are probably the hottest two months in El Salvador and in the rainy season it just rains a lot an umbrella is really it only gets only gonna your hair is gonna be dry your face but the rest of your body will probably be wet because of how much it rains your feet will be the first things to to get wet

Video 6 - Transcription

For the most part, about half the year it's completely dry, and the other half it's raining all the time. So if you're in the months between November to about April or May, it's going to be pretty dry. You're not going to get that many rainstorms, maybe like one or two. There's one rainstorm in the middle of April, I think, that they call La Lluvia de los Jocotes. But other than that, it doesn't really rain a ton. And then on the other side of the year, it's almost always raining, so you want to bring a rain jacket, boots, if you really want to. Usually I just got my shoes wet, but you can also have an umbrella. They're pretty cheap in El Salvador, so you don't really need to bring one either.

Video 7 - Transcription

The weather is like tropical, so it's super humid, but it can get kind of windy sometimes, but overall it's super pretty and beautiful.