Florestal
Florestal | |
|---|---|
| Florestal | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Location in Minas Gerais | |
| Coordinates: 19°53′20″S 44°25′58″W / 19.88889°S 44.43278°W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Region | Southeast |
| State | Minas Gerais |
| Founded | December 30, 1962 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Wagner dos santos júnior |
| Area | |
• Total | 194.356 km2 (75.041 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 8,045 |
| 8,469 | |
| • Density | 414/km2 (1,070/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−3 ({{{timezone}}}BRT) |
| Postal code | 35690-000 to 35693-999 |
| Area code | +55 31 |
| Website | https://www.florestal.mg.gov.br/ |
Florestal is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte, and it is part of the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region. The city is 65 km distant of Belo Horizonte. According to the census made by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, the municipality had 8 045 inhabitants in 2022.[1] The city has a Federal University of Viçosa campus.
Geography
[edit]Climate
[edit]According to data from the National Institute of Meteorology, referring to the timestamp between 1961 and 1984, and from 1986 onwards, the lowest registered temperature in Florestal was of -2.5 °C on July 27, 1965. Another register of a negative temperature happened on June 22, 1963, with a minimum temperature of -1.8 °C. The greatest temperature was of 38.6 °C on November 14, 2023, during an intense heat wave.[2] The greatest accumulated of precipitation in 24 hours reached 187.8 millimeters (mm) on December 17, 2011.[3]
Since June, 2008, the wind gust record reached 20.8 m/s (74.9 km/h) on November 7, 2015. The lowest index of air relative humidity was of 10% in various dates.[4] According to the National Institute for Space Research, the municipality is the 282th in the ranking of occurrences of electric discharges in the state of Minas Gerais, with an annual average of 2.92 by km2/year.[5]
| Climate data for Florestal (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.9 (85.8) |
30.6 (87.1) |
30.3 (86.5) |
29.4 (84.9) |
27.4 (81.3) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.7 (80.1) |
28.1 (82.6) |
29.7 (85.5) |
29.9 (85.8) |
29.3 (84.7) |
29.3 (84.7) |
28.9 (84.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 22.8 (73.0) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.6 (72.7) |
21.1 (70.0) |
18.4 (65.1) |
16.3 (61.3) |
15.9 (60.6) |
17.3 (63.1) |
19.9 (67.8) |
21.5 (70.7) |
22.1 (71.8) |
22.5 (72.5) |
20.3 (68.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 18.2 (64.8) |
17.9 (64.2) |
17.3 (63.1) |
15.1 (59.2) |
11.9 (53.4) |
9.3 (48.7) |
8.5 (47.3) |
9.7 (49.5) |
13.2 (55.8) |
15.9 (60.6) |
17.3 (63.1) |
18.1 (64.6) |
14.4 (57.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 275.5 (10.85) |
154.4 (6.08) |
185.1 (7.29) |
58.5 (2.30) |
25.3 (1.00) |
12.0 (0.47) |
7.4 (0.29) |
12.1 (0.48) |
44.5 (1.75) |
90.6 (3.57) |
208.1 (8.19) |
319.9 (12.59) |
1,393.4 (54.86) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 15 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 91 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 68.9 | 66.4 | 65.5 | 65.2 | 64.0 | 61.9 | 60.8 | 58.8 | 60.1 | 63.6 | 65.9 | 69.3 | 64.2 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 180.6 | 169.5 | 194.4 | 217.4 | 223.9 | 223.2 | 247.7 | 241.1 | 184.8 | 183.1 | 167.7 | 146.2 | 2,379.6 |
| Source: Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia[6] | |||||||||||||
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]UFV
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). "IBGE 2025".
- ↑ National Institute of Meteorology. "Meteorological database". Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ↑ INMET. "Gráficos diários de estações automáticas". Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ↑ National Institute of Meteorology. "Estação: FLORESTAL (A535)". Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). "Cities ranking". Atmospheric Electricity Group. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ↑ "Normais Climatológicas Do Brasil 1981–2010" (in Portuguese). Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
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