Winter Weather in Car China

Daily high temperatures are around 44°F, rarely falling below 33°F or exceeding 54°F. The lowest daily average high temperature is 40°F on January 7.

Daily low temperatures are around 18°F, rarely falling below 10°F or exceeding 26°F. The lowest daily average low temperature is 15°F on January 8.

For reference, on June 23, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Car typically range from 49°F to 72°F, while on January 8, the coldest day of the year, they range from 15°F to 40°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.

Palmer Lake, United States (7,624 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Car (view comparison).

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The winter in Car experiences rapidly increasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy increasing from 14% to 28%.

The clearest day of the winter is December 1, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 86% of the time.

For reference, on August 4, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 73%, while on November 5, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 88%.

Over the course of the winter in Car, 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, 8 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 46 seconds, and weekly increase of 5 minutes, 21 seconds.

The shortest day of the winter is December 21, with 10 hours, 16 minutes of daylight and the longest day is February 28, with 11 hours, 32 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the winter in Car is 6:58 AM on January 10 and the earliest sunrise is 29 minutes earlier at 6:29 AM on February 28.

The earliest sunset is 5:03 PM on December 1 and the latest sunset is 58 minutes later at 6:01 PM on February 28.

Daylight saving time is not observed in Car during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:03 AM and sets 14 hours, 2 minutes later, at 7:05 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:53 AM and sets 10 hours, 16 minutes later, at 5:08 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 Car is essentially constant during the winter, remaining around 0% throughout.

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 Car is rapidly increasing during the winter, increasing from 7.0 miles per hour to 10.1 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on February 26, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 10.1 miles per hour, while on August 18, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.0 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during the winter is 10.1 miles per hour on February 26.

The hourly average wind direction in Car throughout the winter is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 73% on February 19.

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 Car typically lasts for 5.6 months (169 days), from around April 30 to around October 16, rarely starting before April 13 or after May 16, and rarely ending before October 1 or after October 30.

The winter in Car is reliably fully outside of 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 Car are very rapidly decreasing during the winter, decreasing by 1,328°F, from 1,331°F to 3°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 Car is increasing during the winter, rising by 1.5 kWh, from 4.8 kWh to 6.3 kWh, over the course of the season.

The lowest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during the winter is 4.5 kWh on December 24.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Car are 29.389 deg latitude, 89.314 deg longitude, and 12,497 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Car contains large variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 2,339 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 12,767 feet. Within 10 miles contains large variations in elevation (5,699 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (8,520 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Car is covered by grassland (49%), water (25%), and bare soil (18%), within 10 miles by grassland (80%), and within 50 miles by grassland (91%).