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 Inserted on the Island of Fogo, the climate of the Natural Park presents in general lines the characteristics of the dominat sahelic climate in Cape Verde. However, the altitude presents a notable and personal
microclimates differentiation, expressed in the temperature, in the humididy of the air, in the cloudiness and in the precipitation.
The climate in Cape Verde is dominated by a mass originating from the air in oriental sector of the Azores a cell of high subtropical pressures that feed the Atlantic Ocean North's marine trade winds. This mass of air presents, as its general rules, a thickness on a order of about 1000 meters. In the latitudes of Cape Verde the marine course and the humididy that it carries over the sea allows the formation of clouds in altitude, above all in the north slope of the islands.
 The area where you find the Park, general rules, above the trade winds and of the hazy covering. It can happen on an aerial flow on a direction contrary to the trade winds, the antitrades, hot and dry above all during the day, when the sky usually clean it allows a great of the day thermal width. The temperature is low during the night and in the months of northern winter, it can frosty during the night due to solidification of the dew, what confirms it the order of zero degrees Celsius, at least at the level of the soil.
The occurrence of the dew allows the humididy supplement above all during the dry season. This occurrence, allows, two annual crops in dry cultures, only case in the archipelago.
The annual medium precipitation oscillates strongly according to the exhibition and the altitude, but also year to year. 
Above 1.600 m, that is designated an inversion area, the humididy goes down quickly. The high area of the crater with with the cone up to the 2.000m of altitude, 3 months it is humid while the area of the Pico de Fogo up to 2.829m is practically arid.
Fauna
Natural Park of Fogo
Geomorfology and Volcanology
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