It will only get worse in the DR as time goes by. I live in Coral Gables, Florida and it is paradise here. I can't understand how my ANGLO-SAXON friends here on DR1 would trade the beauty that I live in (your country) for the heat, filth, stank and humidity of SD. Coral Gables is packed with those massive trees lining most streets as for ex. Alhambra Way which cuts right through the heart of Coral Gables. Here they protect trees and plant more. It is a canopy of tree cover that keeps you wonderfully cool. And for those of you that say that CG is too expensive I have seen apartments going for the same rate you'd pay in Mountain Annie's Gazcue.
On the other hand, SD and the country in general is in a race to see how many more trees it can cut down. That accounts for your heat increases year over year. For all the ranting and raving about Constanza and Jarabacoa you'd had to have seen those places 50 years ago. The mountains for the most part the ones you see as you enter the city are balding. There is and continues to be massive deforestation going on. The cities themselves used to be as Coral Gables is now. They used to be filled with beautiful Caribbean ( correct spelling CC,LOL) pine lining all the streets within the city itself. Of course that used to be in Trujillo's time!!!
The idiocy and mental retardation of the authorities and the Dominicans in general has stripped all of Constanza of any tree cover in the city and most hills and mountains surrounding the city. It is truly disgusting but what can you expect from an analphabet (real world look it up) group of people. What has been the result? Constanza which in the summers used to be cool in the daytime has become a hell-hole of heat in the summer. Since it is dry heat, it feels like millions of pins being inserted into your skin. It is not fun at all.
The summers used to be wonderfully cool. Trujillo had a place up there and there was a hotel in the vicinity now abandoned. The winters used to much colder also. It was tough in the winter back in the day with temps ranging in the low 40's and upper 30's. Today, Constanza which is amongst the coldest in the country will easily range in the upper 80's and low 90's in the summer. Believe it or not I used to live there and couldn't believe it myself how hot it has gotten. The winters are quite mild and warm also with temps ranging in the 60-80 range. Sometimes you get the 50's but less and less as each year passes.
So the DR will only get hotter as more trees are destroyed to build furniture or burnt for fuel and the waterways disappear as a result. Well at least you ex-pats will be able to run away once the DR turns into Haiti ecologically speaking. Expect more heat as more trees are destroyed. Oh I forgot. If Constanza is being stripped of its tree cover, what about the rest of the island? I scarcely saw any type of vegetation such as that from Santo Domingo all the way to Punta Cana except for shrubbery. The DR is on target to be a thoroughly deforested nation in the not so distant future.
yeah.. Listen we hear that up in Jarabacoa and Constanza they have Frost in the winter! a friend and I were planning to go and we decided it would be too cold...
That's a myth from folks who haven't been there in a long time. Pretty soon the winters in Constanza will be as warm as SD. They've cut down so many trees and continue to cut down that pretty soon the winter harvests will fail. You can see late at night under cover caravans of Daihatsu trucks hauling in lumber from the mountains. I did.
The "Foresta" in Constanza is a little itty bitty broken down office with no officers and no money. Heck, you could come in broad daylight and drive in right through Constanza with a Daihatsu flatbed full of lumber and nothing would happen to you. "Foresta" would probably salute you right through if they ain't sleeping on the job.
