Winter Weather in Gōshtah Afghanistan

Daily high temperatures are around 58°F, rarely falling below 43°F or exceeding 70°F. The lowest daily average high temperature is 53°F on January 23.

Daily low temperatures are around 39°F, rarely falling below 28°F or exceeding 49°F. The lowest daily average low temperature is 35°F on January 21.

For reference, on July 3, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Gōshtah typically range from 80°F to 101°F, while on January 21, the coldest day of the year, they range from 35°F to 53°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average winter temperatures. 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.

Spring Valley, United States (7,561 miles away) and Dallas, United States (7,737 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Gōshtah (view comparison).

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The winter in Gōshtah experiences rapidly increasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy increasing from 26% to 40%.

The clearest day of the winter is December 1, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 74% of the time.

For reference, on March 16, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 42%, while on September 9, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 99%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Gōshtah, the chance of a wet day over the course of the winter is very rapidly increasing, starting the season at 6% and ending it at 22%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 26% on March 25, and its lowest chance is 5% on November 22.

Over the course of the winter in Gōshtah, the chance of a day with only rain increases from 6% to 21%, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain remains an essentially constant 1% throughout, and the chance of a day with only snow remains an essentially constant 0% throughout.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the winter in Gōshtah is rapidly increasing, starting the season at 0.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.6 inches, and ending the season at 2.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 4.9 inches or falls below 0.2 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 0.5 inches on December 6.

Over the course of the winter in Gōshtah, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 23 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 56 seconds, and weekly increase of 6 minutes, 33 seconds.

The shortest day of the winter is December 21, with 9 hours, 51 minutes of daylight and the longest day is February 28, with 11 hours, 25 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the winter in Gōshtah is 6:53 AM on January 7 and the earliest sunrise is 37 minutes earlier at 6:17 AM on February 28.

The earliest sunset is 4:36 PM on December 4 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 6 minutes later at 5:42 PM on February 28.

Daylight saving time is not observed in Gōshtah during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 4:34 AM and sets 14 hours, 27 minutes later, at 7:02 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:49 AM and sets 9 hours, 51 minutes later, at 4:40 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 the winter of 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 in Gōshtah is essentially constant during the winter, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 31, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 3% of the time, while on November 4, 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 in Gōshtah is essentially constant during the winter, remaining within 0.2 miles per hour of 3.9 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on May 29, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.5 miles per hour, while on January 7, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 3.7 miles per hour.

The lowest daily average wind speed during the winter is 3.7 miles per hour on January 7.

The hourly average wind direction in Gōshtah throughout the winter is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 52% on December 8.

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 in Gōshtah typically lasts for 10 months (319 days), from around February 9 to around December 25, rarely starting after March 1, or ending before December 4.

The smallest chance that a given day will be within the growing season in Gōshtah during the winter is 13% on January 16.

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 Gōshtah are very rapidly decreasing during the winter, decreasing by 6,514°F, from 6,599°F to 85°F, over the course of the season.

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 in Gōshtah is increasing during the winter, rising by 1.2 kWh, from 3.3 kWh to 4.5 kWh, over the course of the season.

The lowest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during the winter is 3.0 kWh on December 21.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Gōshtah are 34.358 deg latitude, 70.763 deg longitude, and 1,585 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Gōshtah contains very significant variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 988 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 1,631 feet. Within 10 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (3,904 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (13,917 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Gōshtah is covered by cropland (45%), water (16%), bare soil (15%), and herbaceous vegetation (15%), within 10 miles by bare soil (51%) and cropland (27%), and within 50 miles by bare soil (31%) and grassland (23%).