Clima
Due to the placement of the town Caransebes in the south-western part of the
country, under the direct influence of the Adriatic Sea and under the shelter of
the Carpathian Mountains, the area integrates into the continental-temperate
moderate climate, with sub-Mediterranean influence.
The climatic subtype of south and south-east Banat is characterized through the
contact among the Atlantic air-masses and the pressure done by the Mediterranean
air-masses, which offers a moderate character to the temperature.
The winters and the summers are short, and the springs and autumns are longer,
the temperatures are moderate to both extremes, both to warm and to cold.
The average temperatures vary between 0°C and 1°C in the winter months, and in
summer they are between 21°C and 23°C, what demonstrates the southern influence
in this part of Banat. The almost four months of spring and autumn offer the
main characteristic to the depression of Caransebes from the climatic viewpoint
- the average temperature is of 11. 5°C.
The climate of the Caransebes area is hotter than that of the eastern mountains
(the Tarcu area), and colder than that of the southern area of the Danube (where
the Mediterranean influence is stronger) and more moderate than that of the
western plains.
Spring is a relative hot season with an average temperature of over 10°C. The
spring - summer transition appears pretty suddenly through early heat. The
average summer temperature, a bit over 20°C, shows that summer is a season with
calm heats, not suffocating. The summer - autumn transition always takes slowly
place, autumn appearing as a prolongation of summer, in which the temperature
slowly falls.
Autumn temperature is a little bit higher than in spring. The autumn - winter
transition is relative sudden. The average winter temperature is over 0°C, and
it shows us that this season isn’t very cold.
In the last 50 years, the highest temperature (39.6°C) was measured at the 4th of July 2000 and the lowest temperature (-26.8°C) was measured at the 25th of January 1963.
In the Caransebes area, the wind blows in more then half of the year. These
winds are caused by two climatic phenomena:
- the first phenomenon is the mountain breeze, which blows each time there is a
pressure and temperature difference between the alpine zone and the low
depression.
- the second phenomenon appears because of the change of temperature between the
low zone of Oltenia and the low zone of the Caransebes depression.
The air currents cause a strong motion of air in the Timis - Cerna passage,
appearing a similar phenomenon to the one produced by breathing air to the mouth
of a pipe. When the two phenomena overlap, there is a very strong wind in
Caransebes.
Analyzing the precipitations, in Caransebes we have an average of 737 mm/year.
The biggest amounts of precipitations in the zone depression are in May and
June, and in autumn, in October and in November. The days with snow vary between
25 and 30 in a year.
The analysis of climatically factors (air temperature, winds and precipitations)
show that, although it is surrounded by heights, the sub-mountainous depression
of Caransebes has a transition climate between the alpine climate of the eastern
mountains (the Tarcu – Godeanu area) and the steppe climate to the west of the
Buzias hills, with Mediterranean influences from the south.
The pleasant climate has influences on the local fauna and flora and permits
good living conditions for the area’s inhabitants.