Spring Weather in Lishu China

Daily high temperatures increase by 23°F, from 55°F to 78°F, rarely falling below 47°F or exceeding 85°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 24°F, from 37°F to 62°F, rarely falling below 30°F or exceeding 66°F.

For reference, on July 30, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Lishu typically range from 70°F to 85°F, while on January 12, the coldest day of the year, they range from 31°F to 47°F.

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

Kernersville, United States (7,796 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Lishu (view comparison).

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The spring in Lishu experiences gradually increasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy increasing from 44% to 51%.

The clearest day of the spring is March 3, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 56% of the time.

For reference, on July 3, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 63%, while on December 31, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 70%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Lishu, the chance of a wet day over the course of the spring is very rapidly increasing, starting the season at 14% and ending it at 41%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 49% on July 7, and its lowest chance is 6% on December 20.

Over the course of the spring in Lishu, the chance of a day with only rain increases from 13% to 41%, 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 spring in Lishu is very rapidly increasing, starting the season at 0.9 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.7 inches or falls below 0.2 inches, and ending the season at 6.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 9.2 inches or falls below 3.8 inches.

Over the course of the spring in Lishu, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 2 hours, 27 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 1 minute, 37 seconds, and weekly increase of 11 minutes, 19 seconds.

The shortest day of the spring is March 1, with 11 hours, 32 minutes of daylight and the longest day is May 31, with 14 hours, 0 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the spring in Lishu is 7:11 AM on March 1 and the earliest sunrise is 1 hour, 28 minutes earlier at 5:43 AM on May 31.

The earliest sunset is 6:43 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 59 minutes later at 7:42 PM on May 31.

Daylight saving time is not observed in Lishu during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:42 AM and sets 14 hours, 8 minutes later, at 7:50 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:38 AM and sets 10 hours, 10 minutes later, at 5:48 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 spring 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 Lishu is rapidly increasing during the spring, rising from 0% to 20% over the course of the season.

For reference, on July 26, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 92% of the time, while on November 9, 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 Lishu is gradually decreasing during the spring, decreasing from 5.4 miles per hour to 4.6 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on March 9, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.6 miles per hour, while on October 17, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 4.2 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during the spring is 5.6 miles per hour on March 9.

The wind direction in Lishu during the spring is predominantly out of the south from March 1 to May 11 and the east from May 11 to May 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 in Lishu typically lasts for 8.7 months (266 days), from around March 7 to around November 27, rarely starting before February 15 or after March 27, and rarely ending before November 10 or after December 13.

During the spring in Lishu, the chance that a given day is within the growing season is very rapidly increasing rising from 36% to 100% over the course of the 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 Lishu are very rapidly increasing during the spring, increasing by 936°F, from 36°F to 972°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 Lishu is rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 1.9 kWh, from 3.8 kWh to 5.8 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Lishu are 30.664 deg latitude, 108.748 deg longitude, and 2,972 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Lishu contains large variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 2,654 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,813 feet. Within 10 miles contains large variations in elevation (4,429 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (6,585 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Lishu is covered by trees (59%), grassland (20%), and cropland (17%), within 10 miles by trees (35%) and grassland (33%), and within 50 miles by trees (43%) and cropland (27%).