Extreme weather - Peru Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
So in Trujillo or anywhere along the coast, there's not a lot of rain. Lightning and thunder are basically non-existent. No one there on the coast has ever seen lightning or heard thunder. I got asked about that a lot of times if I ever had seen lightning or heard thunder growing up, and I would tell them, oh yeah, I did lots, and I love the sound of the thunder, and they would always be like, oh, that's so scary. Especially in Trujillo, the weather's pretty consistent. I mean, that does vary from summer to winter, but day to day, it's pretty regular. In the U.S., our weather changes a lot more rapidly. Sometimes people would say, oh yeah, the weather's really crazy here. It's like, really? 65 degrees today, it was 64 yesterday, tomorrow's gonna be 65 again. Very consistent. Rain hardly ever happened. If it did, it was just a light rain.
Video 2 Transcript
Weather in Lima isn't that crazy. The coolest thing I think actually is during the winter time it reaches a hundred percent humidity and Sometimes during the day, but mostly at night the clouds will just descend and just get everything outside wet It just looks like it poured at night like everything is just wet, but it hardly ever rains It rained maybe three times. Mostly it's just the literally the clouds descending on you
Video 3 Transcript
Pura is hot and dry pretty much all the time. On the coast it does get a little bit more humid, but it's a really hot place and you can get sunburned very easily. However, while I was there, there was a time called El Nino where a freak rainstorm comes for about three months and it just doesn't stop raining. And this is really catastrophic for a desert city that has no storm drain. And what happened is it flooded the entire middle section of the city up to the first floor and people were stranded in their homes because people from Peru typically don't know how to swim, so they were stuck in their houses. And my companion and I got authorization to help bail these people out alongside the military with floating mattresses. So that was crazy.
Video 4 Transcript
The weather down in Peru is actually pretty mild. Well in Chiclayo it's year-round it's basically like 70 degrees but then in the summer it gets really really hot in the morning from 9 to 12 it's just deathly hot like it's it's really bad so just look for shade. During the winter time it's kind of funny because it's still warm during the afternoon but then at night time it just gets really really windy so you have to like wear a sweater because if you don't it gets really cold so it's weird because it's like warm throughout the day but then at night it just gets really windy that's winter in Chiclayo.
Video 5 Transcript
The weather in Lima is very interesting. It doesn't rain, hardly at all. So don't worry about bringing rain gear, nothing like that. Don't need to bring an umbrella, don't need to bring a heavy rain jacket, rain boots or anything like that. It's not gonna rain. It rained maybe like once and it wasn't even significant. But it will get pretty cold. I mean in the summer gets really hot and the winter does get pretty cold.
Video 6 Transcript
I didn't see rain for 16 months, and then it did rain, and it rained for like two weeks straight.
Video 7 Transcript
Honestly, the whole time I lived there, I never saw the sun. It was just really cloudy, overcast every single day. That was probably the craziest extreme weather I saw, is that I never saw the sun.
Video 8 Transcript
So the rainforest weather in Iquitos is pretty much exactly what you would expect in a rainforest. There's a lot of rain. It gets pretty windy at times. It's about 90% humidity year round. Usually it's in the 80s and 90s as far as the heat goes. I guess I can tell you that one time the wind and the rain was so bad that it blew a billboard right off and the billboard just flew into the street and ran into a couple of cars and taxis and no one was hurt luckily, but that's just some crazy weather. It once rained for two whole weeks and the streets flooded so much that the boots that you wore didn't even really do anything because the water was so deep it just filled your boots with water. So the rain is definitely a pretty crazy thing to experience in Iquitos.
Video 9 Transcript
In Lima, it's very different all over, but in Lima, it's very humid. In the winter, it's gray all the time. The sky is just a solid gray for a couple months long. It never rains, it just like mists and suddenly everything is soaking wet and you don't know how because it's not actually raining. When you go south, it is still humid down south but it's really hot and the sun is just right there. Especially in the summer, you don't have air conditioning or any way to dehumidify anything and so it's all just very sticky and it's hot.
Video 10 Transcript
The weather in Chiclayo is very extremely, I mean, it's a very hot weather because I'm from Mexico City and the weather in Mexico City is not as hot as Chiclayo, it is very hot there, but it's okay
