Weather+and+Climate+of+China

•Wet and tropical •Some rain forest coverage •Hot, humid, typhoons •Winter goes from January to March, short but very cold.
 * Southern China-**

•Winter: Long and cold- December through March. Temperatures are mainly below zero during the winter and there's snow. •Summer: Temperatures are to the extreme, which are very hot and humid- lasting April through September/October. •Little rainfall creates good conditions for growing wheat
 * Northern China-** (Around Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Tianjin, Great Wall, and Harbin)

•Temperature can drop to -50 degrees Celsius in the winter
 * Far North East China-**

•The terrain is arid and dry. •Good climate for rice crops •Dust storms
 * Northwest China-**
 * North China Plain-**

•Himalayas
 * West China-**

•Second lowest point in the world(154 meters below sea level) •Known as the furnaces of China •Melting snow from the mountains in the west create the Yellow River and the Yangzi River
 * Turfan Depression-**

•Very harsh winds. •Temperatures can change within 100 degrees form dawn to noon.
 * Tibet-** This is the northern part of the Himalayas.

•Cold, a lot of moisture in the air. •Rarely temperatures go below freezing and there it rarely ever snows. •Winter lasts from January through March. •Summer is long and very hot and humid.
 * Central China-**

•Monsoon activities
 * Winter-**

•Hot and rainy •Most areas above 20 centigrade •"Three Oven Cities" along the Yangtze River are Chongqing, Wuhan, and Nanjing
 * Summer-**

•Cold Zone: North part of the Heilongjiang Province and Inner Mogolia •Mid Zone: Jilin, Northern, Xinjiang, and most of the Heilongjiang, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia •Warm Zone: Area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hebei Province
 * Temperature Zones**-

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