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uruguay2
  12/18/2014 17:23 EST

We are used to cooler weather and are looking for a place near a high-altitude town inland.(hoping my husband will change his mind!!!) ....any information would be so appreciated. Rivera? Cerro Catedral town? This will be my dream place....to grow a garden and still be near a clinic if possible for my husband....bus line too. ...we're seniors, but I do speak some Spanish Thanks!!

carlitos
  12/18/2014 18:53 EST

Rivera is my target to, but it is not cold nor high, in the summer you can have 40C or maybe 45C, and even in the spring is hot, up to 35C, in the Winter temp might to down to 0C. You want cold, you will need to go to Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia or Argentina.

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crazyfarmer
  12/18/2014 18:56 EST

North/south affects temperature more than elevation here. There are hills here, but nothing really mountainous where the elevation difference will matter.

Farther north is warmer. You can expect a place like Rivera to be about 10 degrees warmer in the summer, but probably less humid. To me, the sun feels noticeably more tropical in Rivera also. But I have extremely pale skin. Figure the temps top out at 90 in the south and 100 in the north, although you might get a spike higher on occasion. Uruguay is a windy place so there should always be a good breeze, not like Florida where the air hovers and stagnates.

If you're trying to escape the heat, on the coast is probably better. Although there was one property we looked at in Rivera a couple years ago. It had a creek with swimable spots and what they would call monte here, sort of a thinly forested area with a lot of share. Simply stepping into the shady forest area was enough to drop the temperature dramatically.

We came here from Chicago 3 years ago and were not accustomed to the heat. It's turned out to be not as bad as I expected though. Uruguay feels to me more like North Carolina rather than somewhere like Florida. The winters are bone-chilling and wet according to a lot of people. But for me it's easy. Temps bottom out around 30 at night in the winter, with maybe 45 during the day.

Just get a house with good insulation, air conditioning, some shade outside, and a maybe pool and it should be nice.

brian

uruguay2
  12/18/2014 19:06 EST

Anyone want to trade a semi-rural place near Rivera with creek/trees for a nice place in Piriapolis with view of the ocean? just putting it out there....

uruguay2
  12/18/2014 19:10 EST

Is there a town up near Cerro Catedral?

carlitos
  12/18/2014 19:45 EST

Cerro Catedral is not in Rivera, it is in Maldonado.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cerro+Catedral,+Uruguay/@-34.3816755,-54.674361,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x9574d335e5f3f9fd:0x2c4a2aa3ea275366!5m1!1e4

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EdNewYorkCity
  12/19/2014 00:07 EST

As Brian explained it, the further south the colder it gets. Piriapolis is located in the coldest area (part of the southern coast). For 9 months is going to be comfortable to cold in winter and during summer a bit hot but comfortably breeze and maybe 4 or 5 days that would be better with air conditioned. It's a temperate climate not tropical at any time. I include a view from Cerro Catedral and as you can see there's nothing there. The closest town seems to be Aigua, probably about 15 miles away.

A view from the top of Cerro Catedral, altitude = 513 meters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suvy_lHmedI

ismael
  12/19/2014 15:35 EST

Perhaps nobody said it directly enough yet: Uruguay is super über extra flat in it's entirety, you will hardly notice any difference at all, at least not due to altitude.

There should be some DB with historical records of temperature in different areas... that might prove helpful, but if you want cold you probably have to go to Argentina or Chile.

uruguay2
  12/20/2014 21:05 EST

For any communication, it would be easier with private email addresses....am having some trouble replying. Thanks everyone.....Uruguay is such a great country! Don Pepe rocks!

uruguay2
  12/20/2014 23:57 EST

EdNYC.....good information...thank you!
Where do you live?

EdNewYorkCity
  12/21/2014 08:15 EST

Uruguay2- I'm glad the information was useful. I have lived in NYC for the past 35 years but I grew up in Montevideo, I have a retirement home in Atlantida and visit Uruguay every 2 or 3 years. I know some Canadians and Germans in Atlantida that obviously come from colder environments and have adjusted just fine here. As I said before you’re not going to find any place colder than Piriapolis and Rivera is pretty far north and therefore hotter. How much time have you spent in Piriapolis or any other part of Uruguay? Was it during winter or summer? Regards. Ed

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wengin
  12/26/2014 06:38 EST

I think EdNewYorkCity it's forgetting to mention Lavalleja, especially Minas and surroundings, It's extremely cold in winter and blazing hot in Summer. Although I have some land there and love it, I have to recognize that the weather is not the best for me. It has beautiful landscape, rivers, streams with very good water, trees, nature has been very generous in that area, but the climate is not as good for me. I live in Atlantida and love it. We don't have mountains in Uruguay, just some rolling hills kind of like in California may be.

EdNewYorkCity
  12/26/2014 12:34 EST

wengin, You might have been the victim of some typical Uruguayan construction with no insulation. I understand that humidity can make the temperature feel colder in winter and the absence of wind make it feel hotter in summer but other than that I’m totally surprised by your experience. In the chart shown following the link below, the average lowest temperature found in winter is 46 and the highest average in summer is 84 Fahrenheit. I don’t know where you came from but that doesn’t look too extreme to me.

http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=155568

uruguay2
  12/26/2014 13:33 EST

In a couple days its supposed to be 1 degree Fahrenheit overnight....around 20 during the day. THAT is cold. I grew up near Seattle, WA and its rainy and cold, sometimes snowing. Somehow Uruguay just doesn't sound as cold as these areas. Do people use fireplace inserts? We like the option of slowing down the fire overnight and having coals to start a hot fire going again in the morning. Where is all this firewood coing from? Do they burn Eucalyptus trees? Might smell good....? I know it can be windy there, hence the windmills. Glad to see them......In E. Washington we still haven't had much snow - very strange winter here.

Morell
  12/26/2014 14:10 EST

That may be the average but I have seen it below freezing here in Atlantida, I have seen my neighbors houses white with frost in the mornings and , my birdbath with a layer of ice on it. It generally warms up later in the day but nights and early mornings can be downright chilly!

EdNewYorkCity
  12/26/2014 15:23 EST

Ok, let’s get it straight. 32 Fahrenheits = 0 degree Celsius. Uruguay2, I can assure you that Uruguay has never seen 1 degree Fahrenheit in it’s history, I’m sure that was a mistake and you meant 1 degree Celsius. That would be almost freezing temperature and pretty cold but by any means extreme cold, trust me I live in NYC and I know what cold is. In Minas in the chart the lowest ever was 27 Fahrenheit’s, again, cold but not extreme.

Morell
  12/26/2014 16:04 EST

We use red Eucalyptua in our insert. We burn around 5 tons of wood from May to October.

We almost never find any coals in the morning but it doesn't take long to start a new fire.

We bought our stove from Magna in MVD, they have a website. They did all the installation and come once a year to clean the chimney, paint the inside and put new insulation around the door. We bought one of the models that has a fan and we have pipes that blows hot air both downstairs and upstairs.It is our only heat source except for a small electric heater in the bathroom.
You can also get imported soapstone stoves and there are several places that build tile stoves.

pjantares
  12/26/2014 16:48 EST

Morell, would that insulation around the door be like a fire proof gasket? I ask because I need a gasket replaced and have no idea where to find one.

Morell
  12/26/2014 18:27 EST

Yes, that is the name of it.

Contact Claudia at

[email protected]

Hopefully she can help you.

uruguay2
  12/27/2014 00:12 EST

The 1 degree Fahrenheit is up here in NE Washington....I was saying THAT is cold. Sorry if I wasn't clear. So when I hear it can be cold there, I can't relate. Humidity I understand. Living on a boat before in BC you'd get in the sheets and they'd feel wet. ugh! Is it like that in Uruguay?

carlitos
  12/27/2014 05:52 EST

the name is burlete, and you can find it in any ferreteria, the rubber ones are better but more expensive.

pjantares
  12/27/2014 06:09 EST

Morell & Carlitos, thank you for the info. I will email Claudia at Magna and see if they have a felt-type burlete. I need this for a different application than a fireplace but to be used in a ceramic grill. I will try the local ferreteria now that I have the right word. Besos!!

edykizaki
  12/27/2014 07:51 EST

Got here in April so this was our first winter.

I'm most recently from Seattle, Bellingham, & Vancouver BC and I kept waiting for it to get cold here...my friends talked of the "bone chilling" cold... when was I going to be able to utilize the comfy sweaters I'd brought... granted I lived in an apartment with heating, but was out and about to teach every day.

Never did get to the point of mittens on the hands, brought our wool mittens from Bainbridge, no use for them. Hardly wore a coat, although grateful that I could wear my wool blazers without feeling too hot. There were about 3 weeks when it really felt like winter, I think.

edykizaki
  12/27/2014 07:52 EST

I should have added we live in Montevideo.

wengin
  12/27/2014 08:27 EST

EdNewYorkCity, I actually live in Atlantida. My husband is a builder. He has built homes in the States all his life, this is what he knows how to do. He has built in New Mexico, California (Malibu, Lake Tahoe, etc), Colorado, Idaho, etc. He is building our home as we talk. We also have land in Lavalleja, and a couple of friends that have installed a dairy in Mariscala, Lavalleja. Marty comes from Michingan, so he knows about cold... He has said that he feels chilling cold to his bones there. On the other hand we have spent lots of times in their ranch, and I swear by God, it's cold. Beautiful but cold and humid, hot, hot in summer and humid.... That is one of the reasons why we are going to sell our land there too. I prefer more the breeze close to the ocean. Many times in the morning, we have got up there and the ground is completely cover white with ice, believe, it's cold.....

Morell
  12/27/2014 09:01 EST

The stuff they installed around our door is not rubber or felt. It is a grey braided fiberglass rope they press into the channel that the stove has for it,

Morell
  12/27/2014 09:19 EST

Just for the record, this last winter was very mild but seemed to start early with cooler temperatures and rain in April.

We did not get any frost this year and many of my annuals made it through the winter where before they have died.

I would like more daylight in winter I find the short winter days a little depressing!

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