August Weather in Guocun ChinaDaily high temperatures decrease by 4°F, from 89°F to 85°F, rarely falling below 78°F or exceeding 94°F. The highest daily average high temperature is 89°F on August 1. Daily low temperatures decrease by 4°F, from 74°F to 69°F, rarely falling below 65°F or exceeding 77°F. For reference, on July 31, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Guocun typically range from 74°F to 89°F, while on January 13, the coldest day of the year, they range from 35°F to 51°F. The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on August. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day. Memphis, United States (7,753 miles away) and College Park, United States (7,933 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Guocun (view comparison). CloudsThe month of August in Guocun experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 53% throughout the month. The clearest day of the month is August 9, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 48% of the time. For reference, on July 3, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 62%, while on January 13, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 66%. PrecipitationA wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Guocun, the chance of a wet day over the course of August is essentially constant, remaining around 35% throughout. For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 47% on July 4, and its lowest chance is 6% on December 30. RainfallTo show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day. The average sliding 31-day rainfall during August in Guocun is essentially constant, remaining about 5.3 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 9.4 inches or falling below 1.6 inches. SunOver the course of August in Guocun, the length of the day is decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 48 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 36 seconds, and weekly decrease of 11 minutes, 14 seconds. The shortest day of the month is August 31, with 12 hours, 48 minutes of daylight and the longest day is August 1, with 13 hours, 36 minutes of daylight. The earliest sunrise of the month in Guocun is 6:05 AM on August 1 and the latest sunrise is 18 minutes later at 6:23 AM on August 31. The latest sunset is 7:41 PM on August 1 and the earliest sunset is 30 minutes earlier at 7:11 PM on August 31. Daylight saving time is not observed in Guocun during 2024. For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:45 AM and sets 14 hours, 8 minutes later, at 7:52 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:40 AM and sets 10 hours, 10 minutes later, at 5:50 PM. The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation. MoonThe figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for August 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.
HumidityWe base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night. The chance that a given day will be muggy in Guocun is very rapidly decreasing during August, falling from 97% to 70% over the course of the month. For reference, on July 22, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 98% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time. WindThis section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages. The average hourly wind speed in Guocun is essentially constant during August, remaining within 0.1 miles per hour of 4.7 miles per hour throughout. For reference, on April 30, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.5 miles per hour, while on December 27, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 4.1 miles per hour. The wind direction in Guocun during August is predominantly out of the south from August 1 to August 10 and the east from August 10 to August 31. Growing SeasonDefinitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere). The growing season in Guocun typically lasts for 10.0 months (303 days), from around February 13 to around December 12, rarely starting before January 22 or after March 4, and rarely ending before November 22 or after December 31. The month of August in Guocun is reliably fully within the growing season. Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F. The average accumulated growing degree days in Guocun are rapidly increasing during August, increasing by 868°F, from 3,056°F to 3,924°F, over the course of the month. Solar EnergyThis section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation. The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Guocun is gradually decreasing during August, falling by 0.8 kWh, from 6.0 kWh to 5.2 kWh, over the course of the month. TopographyFor the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Guocun are 30.566 deg latitude, 108.169 deg longitude, and 1,099 ft elevation. The topography within 2 miles of Guocun contains very significant variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 1,316 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 1,471 feet. Within 10 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (2,428 feet). Within 50 miles contains large variations in elevation (5,961 feet). The area within 2 miles of Guocun is covered by cropland (77%) and trees (16%), within 10 miles by cropland (64%) and trees (17%), and within 50 miles by trees (36%) and cropland (36%). Data SourcesThis report illustrates the typical weather in Guocun, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016. Guocun is further than 200 kilometers from the nearest reliable weather station, so the weather-related data on this page were taken entirely from NASA's MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis . This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid. The temperature and dew point estimates are corrected for the difference between the reference elevation of the MERRA-2 grid cell and the elevation of Guocun, according to the International Standard Atmosphere . All data relating to the Sun's position (e.g., sunrise and sunset) are computed using astronomical formulas from the book, Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition , by Jean Meeus. Land Use data comes from the Global Land Cover SHARE database , published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Elevation data comes from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) , published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Names, locations, and time zones of places and some airports come from the GeoNames Geographical Database . 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