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Tajikistan
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In general, Tajikistan's climate is continental, subtropical, and
semiarid, with some desert areas. The climate changes drastically
according to elevation, however. The Fergana Valley and other lowlands are
shielded by mountains from Arctic air masses, but temperatures in that
region still drop below freezing for more than 100 days a year. In the
subtropical southwestern lowlands, which have the highest average
temperatures, the climate is arid, although some sections now are
irrigated for farming. At Tajikistan's lower elevations, the average
temperature range is 23° to 30° C in July and -1° to 3°C
in January. In the eastern Pamirs, the average July temperature is 5°
to 10°C, and the average January temperature is -15° to -20°C.
The average annual precipitation for most of the republic ranges between
700 and 1,600 millimeters. The heaviest precipitation falls are at the
Fedchenko Glacier, which averages 2,236 millimeters per year, and the
lightest in the eastern Pamirs, which average less than 100 millimeters
per year. Most precipitation occurs in the winter and spring.
Data as of March 1996
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