Shaowu
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| Shaowu 邵武 |
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| 邵武市 | |
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 Shaowu
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| Coordinates: 27°18′N 117°30′E / 27.3°N 117.5°ECoordinates: 27°18′N 117°30′E / 27.3°N 117.5°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Fujian |
| Prefecture-level city | Nanping |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Shaowu (Chinese: 邵武; pinyin: Shàowǔ) is a county-level city in northwestern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the Wuyi Mountains. It has more than 100,000 inhabitants. The local dialect combines elements from Min Nan and Gan Chinese.
[edit] Climate
Shaowu has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with short, mild winters and very hot, humid summers. The monthly daily mean temperature ranges from 7.3 °C (45.1 °F) in January to 27.7 °C (81.9 °F) in July. There is a marked decline in rainfall in autumn and early winter, and rainfall is both frequent and heavy during spring and early summer.
| Climate data for Shaowu (1971–2000) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 12.8 (55.0) |
14.0 (57.2) |
17.4 (63.3) |
23.2 (73.8) |
27.1 (80.8) |
30.3 (86.5) |
33.7 (92.7) |
33.3 (91.9) |
30.3 (86.5) |
26.0 (78.8) |
20.5 (68.9) |
15.7 (60.3) |
23.7 (74.7) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 3.8 (38.8) |
5.6 (42.1) |
9.5 (49.1) |
14.4 (57.9) |
18.5 (65.3) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.3 (73.9) |
20.6 (69.1) |
15.4 (59.7) |
9.5 (49.1) |
4.5 (40.1) |
14.2 (57.6) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 72.1 (2.839) |
125.5 (4.941) |
215.0 (8.465) |
258.7 (10.185) |
280.7 (11.051) |
333.8 (13.142) |
155.3 (6.114) |
149.6 (5.89) |
81.8 (3.22) |
62.2 (2.449) |
54.2 (2.134) |
43.6 (1.717) |
1,832.5 (72.146) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 13.7 | 15.4 | 20.0 | 20.2 | 20.1 | 17.8 | 13.2 | 14.1 | 11.5 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 171.2 |
| Source: Weather.com.cn [1] | |||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ "邵武 - 气象数据 -中国天气网" (in Simplified Chinese). Weather.com.cn. http://www.weather.com.cn/cityintro/101230904.shtml. Retrieved 2011-12-22.
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