Temperature Controls in the City of Sucre

     In this essay i will talk about the capital city of my country, and things that do effect and do not effect the regional temperatures of my city.  The capital city of my country is Sucre.  The latitude and longitude of my capital city is 19.0500 degrees South and 65.2500 degrees West.  The warmest month in my city is November with an average monthly temperature of 63 degrees Fahrenheit.  The coldest month in my city is July and it has an average monthly temperature of 56 degrees Fahrenheit(www.weatherbase.com).  One temperature control that has an effect on my city is altitude.  My city has an altitude of 2,790 meters above sea level.  This altitude causes cooler temperatures, because there is a cooler temperature at greater heights.  Also the atmospheric pressure decreases which means that the atmosphere absorbs and reflects less radiation.  One temperature control that does not have an impact on my city is the differential heating of land and water.  Different surfaces absorb, emit, and reflect different amounts of energy.  Land heats up faster and at higher temperatures than water does and also cools faster and to lower temperatures.  Sucre is located toward the middle of Bolivia with no bodies of water around it.  There is actually no water surrounding all of Bolivia itself because it is in the middle of South America.  In the future, I think the temperature of my city will slowly start to rise.  If you look at past years temperatures of Sucre, you can see that the temperatures have been going up slowly.  One reason for this could be because of the greenhouse effect.  The absorbed energy from the sun that heats the air, could be more and more each year making temperatures in my city rise.  By doing this assignment, I learned that my country has a high altitude, and is also in the middle of the country so it is not surrounded by a body of water.  This makes certain temperature controls have a bigger impact than other ones do.