Climate

Chinas climate is dominated by monsoon winds, causing drastic temperature differences winter and summer. In winter, north winds coming from high latitude areas are dry and cold. In summer, south winds from sea and low latitude areas are warm and moist. The climate in China differs region to region do to the countrys complex topography. For example in the southern Nanlingt Mountain, rain is rich and temperaturs are high all year round. In northeast China summers are short but have alot of sunshine and warmth, were the winters are long and bitterly cold. Southwest China has low latitudes, the land is highly elivated, and has dastically vertical seasonal zones.

Northern winters, December-March are bitterly freeezing. Infact it is possible for Beijing to reach temperatures of -20C. Advancing north in the Mongolia region you may find it to be -40C. Curiouse enough having sand dunes covered in snow. In summer, May- August temperatures for Beijing can reach 38C (100F), colliding with constant rain. The best times are in spring and autumn. Temperatures verry form 20C to 30C (68F to 86F). Percipitation is low only reacing about 6370cm per year in these seasons.

The Yangtze River valley has extensively humid summers, with raging temperatures from April- October. The city Wuhan, Chongquing and Nanjing on the Yangtze are still today known as the furnaces of China. Winters are quite, reducing to freezing temperatures.It can become as cold as Beijing at a temp of -20C. The cold temperatures are contributed by the short of heating in building south of the Yangtze River. Once again spring and autumn have the best temperatures in the year, the precipitation reducing to a low 76cm per year in only these seasons.

Near guangzhuo, summer is full of typhoons immensely between the months of July and September. Temperatures reach an average of 38C. Winters are short, January-March. Days are not hardly cold. Autumn and spring have day temperatures reaching 20C to 25C. Some days it will be wet and cold, and it may rain. Precipitation acerages 76cm per year in these seasons.