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Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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What I find interesting about this climate is despite it's very continental nature and being so far inland, diurnal ranges are pretty low, being around 10C any time of year. Seeing as it gets so little rain I have to put this down to it still being influenced by humid airmasses from Eastern Asia.
C- rating. Five solid months of winter, and short shoulder seasons (May and September look sensational), with a dry summer which I suspect would not be as unpleasant as many humid coastal locations.
D, mainly due to the brutal winters. Roughly half the year looks fairly pleasant though. Summers are hot but bone dry and hence much more tolerable than they appear based on temps alone.
With 2700 sunshine hours it must surely be among the sunniest locations in China? I imagine China in general to be fairly cloudy.
The Siberian interior also exhibits extreme continentality (Oymyakon, etc.)
I'd be sick (like physically sick) most of the year. April, May, September, and October seem to have nice and comfortable temperature range. Winter is way too cold (much colder than Toronto), and summer is way too hot (but still somehow tolerable, with AC of course). Sunshine hours look impressive though.
The only good things about the cold months are the rapid warming in the spring, and the dryness. The winter (Dec, Jan, Feb) is comparable to the likes of Winnipeg, and Edmonton, but by March, it's much warmer. The April temperature is unbelievable; probably would make me wonder if it is still the same place.
This place truly defines the four seasons though. If the numbers are real, it's as if there is always somebody telling the climates to switch at the beginning of each meteorological season...
I read somewhere that about 250 million years ago, when all the land was on one continent (Pangea), the earth was full of extreme climates such as this one.
I voted a bit too hastily with a C, marking off two letter grades (for a warm desert climate) as opposed to one (for a temperate one). B- due to aridity (however, the mountains are not too distant to the south and west) and very hot, if dry (the same heat east of ~104E in the country would normally be oppressive), summers. Legs up for low-pressure systems in early winter that can steer along that latitude and establish a reliable snow cover; also only December is notably cloudy.
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Originally Posted by RWood
Looks like a C-/D, but I'd want independent confirmation of all stats.
They are coded directly from the China Meteorological Administration, and an external source with the same temp+precip normals.
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