07 May 2012. We had 21 inches of rain during April. You'll find a brief report in our current blog post.
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You may find it interesting to compare Potrerillos weather with Palmira, Chiriqui, weather. The stations are
6 miles apart in distance but 1,740 feet apart in altitude.
An excellent site for the Panama weather forecast is at Gerencia de Hidrometerología (meterologial service of Panama).
Sunrise/Sunset
The box below gives sunrise and sunset times as calculated and reported by a site in the UK. The solar graph above gives the time of day in local 24-hr time. To compare the sunrise or sunset time on that graph with the calculated UTC sunrise or sunset time in the box below, you need to know this:
- UTC is Coordinated Universal Time and may be considered equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time.
- Panama time is UTC - 5 hours, so an 11:00 AM UTC sunrise would mean a 6:00 AM sunrise, Panama time.
Every time I've checked, the first solar rays that show up on our graph coincide nicely with the calculated sunrise time. Pretty neat.
Current Panama Time:
Current Universal Time: