Climate
Turks and Caicos Islands features a relatively dry and sunny marine tropical climate climate with relatively consistent temperatures throughout the course of the year. Summertime temperatures rarely exceed 33 °C (91 °F) and winter nighttime temperatures rarely fall below 18 °C (64 °F).
| Climate data for Turks and Caicos Islands : Grand Turk | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 27 (81) |
27 (81) |
28 (82) |
28 (82) |
29 (84) |
30 (86) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
28 (82) |
29.1 (84.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
24 (75) |
25 (77) |
26 (79) |
27 (81) |
27 (81) |
27 (81) |
26 (79) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24.9 (76.8) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 36.1 (1.421) |
34.0 (1.339) |
24.6 (0.969) |
35.6 (1.402) |
29.5 (1.161) |
54.9 (2.161) |
30.0 (1.181) |
40.4 (1.591) |
66.5 (2.618) |
74.9 (2.949) |
93.5 (3.681) |
85.1 (3.35) |
605.1 (23.823) |
| Source: Weather.com Weatherbase.com | |||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: Transport In The Turks And Caicos Islands
Famous quotes containing the word climate:
“When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“If often he was wrong and at times absurd,
To us he is no more a person
Now but a whole climate of opinion.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us—that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions—they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)