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Okay, try Timaru then. 546mm on 75 days>1mm. , quite low sunshine and a generally chilly climate. Also has sunnier winters than summers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaru#Climate
Heh, it never occurred to me to look up the data in Chinese
Oddly, Turpan isn't as exceptional as it looks. It's not the driest city in the world, doesn't have the biggest temperature range, etc. It probably has the biggest warm up between Jan and Feb though.
Plus the record high for December is lower than the average high in November Even Oymyakon doesn't have that.
Heh, it never occurred to me to look up the data in Chinese
Oddly, Turpan isn't as exceptional as it looks. It's not the driest city in the world, doesn't have the biggest temperature range, etc. It probably has the biggest warm up between Jan and Feb though.
Plus the record high for December is lower than the average high in November Even Oymyakon doesn't have that.
Maybe Turpan goes from about 15 °C at the beginning of November to about 5 °C at the end. Turpan is special because it has the coldest average highs in January for a city that averages highs above 40 °C (or 39 °C in the English version) in July. No other city comes even close to that.
Maybe Turpan goes from about 15 °C at the beginning of November to about 5 °C at the end. Turpan is special because it has the coldest average highs in January for a city that averages highs above 40 °C (or 39 °C in the English version) in July. No other city comes even close to that.
Sure, but considering how odd that climate table looks you'd think it would hold all sorts of records.
Only city with annual average high above 100F (or is it the only place?) = Mecca
There are plenty of other places which we've done on here that I can't quite remember, maybe others can help out:
Northernmost place never to have seen an ice day = Ushant?
Lowest-latitude place at sea level to have sub-freezing mean in coldest month = somewhere in southern China
Place with 0.1 days of average snowfall in a month with warmest average high = somewhere in Montana in September with something like an 80F average high
January sunnier than July even pretty high up in the Northern Hemisphere = somewhere in East Asia/far eastern Russia?
Biggest sunshine difference between sunniest/gloomiest months in % terms = somewhere in southern Russia
Sunniest gloomiest month = can't remember where this one was, think the number was something like 289 hours in their gloomiest month though
As you can see, something uncommon happens in Turpan, at the end of November there is a regular decrease in temperature without returning to higher values, unlike common continental climates. That explains the fact that the December record high is lower than November's average high.
Turpan is a total outlier by mixing up both an annual average of ~15ºC and an annual range of ~40ºC.
It makes it truly exceptional, one of the most unique climates on Earth. Places that continental are usually much colder, and places with such averages have usually much lesser ranges.
PS: Why does the opener just use the average highs? Daily averages constitute the basis for climate characterization. Average highs and lows are rather complements, and using them by their own can lead to misleading conclusions.
Turpan is a total outlier by mixing up both an annual average of ~15ºC and an annual range of ~40ºC.
It makes it truly exceptional, one of the most unique climates on Earth. Places that continental are usually much colder, and places with such averages have usually much lesser ranges.
PS: Why does the opener just use the average highs? Daily averages constitute the basis for climate characterization. Average highs and lows are rather complements, and using them by their own can lead to misleading conclusions.
Those were just examples, I used the average lows on two occasions. I like considering average highs because that's the time of the day when most people are outside.
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Even Oymyakon doesn't have that.
