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Climate Zone
Lishui has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with short, mild winters (with occasional frost), and long, very hot, humid summers.
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In Lishui, autumn and early winter are the driest times of the year, while from March to June rain falls on more than half of the days and the floods occasionally struck the city. From midsummer on to autumn, typhoons occasionally strike the area. Lishui has an extremely hot summer, awlays ranked first among the cities of high temperature in China .
Annual Facts
Summer: long, hot, humid Winter: short, mild Average rain fall: 1406mm/year
TEMPERATURE
The average high in July is 35.3 °C and the average low is 25.0 °C. The average January high is 11.8 °C and the average low in 3.4 °C . The highest temperature ever recorded is 43.2 °C on July 31, 2003. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −7.7 °C on January 16, 1967 and January 16, 1970.
PRECIPITATION
The average annual rainfall is 1406mm, reducing progressively from south to north. 80% of the annual precipitation occurrs in March to September.
Wind of ENE prevails in Lishui. The annual average wind speed is between 1.1m/s to 1.6m/s, decreasing from the southeast to the northwest region .
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