August Weather at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base Turkey

Daily high temperatures decrease by 5°F, from 87°F to 83°F, rarely falling below 73°F or exceeding 95°F. The highest daily average high temperature is 87°F on August 2.

Daily low temperatures decrease by 6°F, from 62°F to 56°F, rarely falling below 49°F or exceeding 67°F. The highest daily average low temperature is 62°F on August 3.

For reference, on August 2, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base typically range from 62°F to 87°F, while on January 24, the coldest day of the year, they range from 24°F to 39°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.

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The month of August at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 4% throughout the month. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 2% on August 2.

The clearest day of the month is August 2, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 98% of the time.

For reference, on December 22, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 54%, while on August 2, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 98%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Ankara Etimesgut Air Base, the chance of a wet day over the course of August is essentially constant, remaining around 6% throughout.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 22% on April 28, and its lowest chance is 5% on August 2.

Rainfall

To 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 at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base is essentially constant, remaining about 0.4 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 1.1 inches or falling below -0.0 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 0.4 inches on August 12.

Over the course of August at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base, the length of the day is rapidly decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 1 hour, 9 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 2 minutes, 18 seconds, and weekly decrease of 16 minutes, 7 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is August 31, with 13 hours, 5 minutes of daylight and the longest day is August 1, with 14 hours, 15 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the month at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base is 5:48 AM on August 1 and the latest sunrise is 28 minutes later at 6:16 AM on August 31.

The latest sunset is 8:02 PM on August 1 and the earliest sunset is 41 minutes earlier at 7:21 PM on August 31.

Daylight saving time is not observed at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:20 AM and sets 15 hours, 1 minute later, at 8:21 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 8:07 AM and sets 9 hours, 20 minutes later, at 5:27 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.

The 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.

We 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 at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base is essentially constant during August, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 9, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This 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 at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base is essentially constant during August, remaining within 0.2 miles per hour of 7.1 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on February 27, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 7.7 miles per hour, while on November 3, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.3 miles per hour.

The wind direction at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base during August is predominantly out of the north from August 1 to August 10 and the east from August 10 to August 31.

Definitions 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 at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base typically lasts for 6.4 months (194 days), from around April 14 to around October 26, rarely starting before March 24 or after May 4, and rarely ending before October 7 or after November 12.

The month of August at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base 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 at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base are rapidly increasing during August, increasing by 680°F, from 1,814°F to 2,495°F, over the course of the month.

This 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 at Ankara Etimesgut Air Base is decreasing during August, falling by 1.1 kWh, from 7.8 kWh to 6.7 kWh, over the course of the month.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Ankara Etimesgut Air Base are 39.950 deg latitude, 32.689 deg longitude, and 2,667 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Ankara Etimesgut Air Base contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 348 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,719 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (2,336 feet). Within 50 miles contains large variations in elevation (5,272 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Ankara Etimesgut Air Base is covered by artificial surfaces (72%), grassland (13%), and cropland (13%), within 10 miles by cropland (45%) and artificial surfaces (38%), and within 50 miles by cropland (52%) and grassland (18%).