West Coast "The Big Climate Divide"
Note: My frequent posts are an attempt to stimulate this forum that in the past has been about as lively as a moss covered rock...in the off season. Hopefully with subjects that are little covered in any season.
The difference in Climate between Barra de Navidad versus southward of Manzanillo, a bare 40 miles to the south is little short of phenomenal.
I have experienced evenings in La Costa Alegre, that required a heavy coat and hat in February, then proceeded south where a tee shirt at ten o'clock was more than plenty.
Es mucho más fresco aquà (It is much cooler here) my daughter Brenda remarked one January evening. Barra is only 230 road miles and on the same coast. The three (then) grand daughters were complaining. Eighty two F versus 63 F is no trifle difference at eight PM.
It got so cold in the evening at Boca de Iguanas instead of resting two days as planned, I bailed out. Standing around a beach campfire and seeing my breath while others were amazed at seeing their own, is a bit much to take. This is not an "every single winter" phenomenon but it is too often for my liking. One winter in La Manzanilla I slept on top of the sheets with the ceiling fan on high in hotel La Puesta del Sol, the very next winter had me slamming windows shut and asking hotel management for more blankets. Both occurred the first week of February.
Winter evenings are dependably warm south of Manzanillo. The coolest time of year is not deep winter but a week or so of high sixties sunrises around SEMANA SANTA. This is on a section of coastline with open ocean and not within a mountain shrouded bay.
The epitome of deep winter evening heat may occur at Tehuantepec where ninety degrees at eleven o'clock is not seen as being abnormal.
For an RV'er, an escape from whatever weather ails them is a short ride up or down the nearby Sierra Madre del Sur. Five hours downhill from Patzcuaro can change mid thirties sunrise into a seventy degree sunrise and a summer time eighty degree sunrise into a sixty degree experience, by going uphill.
To me, this is near magic. But it's not nearly so easy in the northern Pacific coast. From Guaymas to Creel is much more effort.
The difference in Climate between Barra de Navidad versus southward of Manzanillo, a bare 40 miles to the south is little short of phenomenal.
I have experienced evenings in La Costa Alegre, that required a heavy coat and hat in February, then proceeded south where a tee shirt at ten o'clock was more than plenty.
Es mucho más fresco aquà (It is much cooler here) my daughter Brenda remarked one January evening. Barra is only 230 road miles and on the same coast. The three (then) grand daughters were complaining. Eighty two F versus 63 F is no trifle difference at eight PM.
It got so cold in the evening at Boca de Iguanas instead of resting two days as planned, I bailed out. Standing around a beach campfire and seeing my breath while others were amazed at seeing their own, is a bit much to take. This is not an "every single winter" phenomenon but it is too often for my liking. One winter in La Manzanilla I slept on top of the sheets with the ceiling fan on high in hotel La Puesta del Sol, the very next winter had me slamming windows shut and asking hotel management for more blankets. Both occurred the first week of February.
Winter evenings are dependably warm south of Manzanillo. The coolest time of year is not deep winter but a week or so of high sixties sunrises around SEMANA SANTA. This is on a section of coastline with open ocean and not within a mountain shrouded bay.
The epitome of deep winter evening heat may occur at Tehuantepec where ninety degrees at eleven o'clock is not seen as being abnormal.
For an RV'er, an escape from whatever weather ails them is a short ride up or down the nearby Sierra Madre del Sur. Five hours downhill from Patzcuaro can change mid thirties sunrise into a seventy degree sunrise and a summer time eighty degree sunrise into a sixty degree experience, by going uphill.
To me, this is near magic. But it's not nearly so easy in the northern Pacific coast. From Guaymas to Creel is much more effort.
