I've already received questions and comments from a few students through the site. I am going to respond to a few and then follow up once I get to the DR.
Brooklynn wants to know if it's summer in the DR and if it's warm there. It's not summer there, but it is hot! The DR is in the same hemisphere, or half of the world, as we are so they have winter and summer at roughly the same time that we do in Massachusetts. The only difference is that the DR is much closer than Massachusetts is to the Equator, so the temperature there doesn't vary as much as it does here.
To give you an idea of what the weather is like in the DR, I added a weather widget on the right. It will show you the current temperature and conditions in Santo Domingo--the capital city in the Dominican.
On the home page, you can check out and compare the current weather in Somerville, Santo Domingo, and Managua (the capital of Nicaragua).
Brooklynn wants to know if it's summer in the DR and if it's warm there. It's not summer there, but it is hot! The DR is in the same hemisphere, or half of the world, as we are so they have winter and summer at roughly the same time that we do in Massachusetts. The only difference is that the DR is much closer than Massachusetts is to the Equator, so the temperature there doesn't vary as much as it does here.
To give you an idea of what the weather is like in the DR, I added a weather widget on the right. It will show you the current temperature and conditions in Santo Domingo--the capital city in the Dominican.
On the home page, you can check out and compare the current weather in Somerville, Santo Domingo, and Managua (the capital of Nicaragua).