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Turkmenistan
Index
Turkmenistan has a subtropical desert climate that is severely
continental. Summers are long (from May through September), hot, and dry,
while winters generally are mild and dry, although occasionally cold and
damp in the north. Most precipitation falls between January and May;
precipitation is slight throughout the country, with annual averages
ranging from 300 millimeters in the Kopetdag to eighty millimeters in the
northwest. The capital, Ashgabat, close to the Iranian border in
south-central Turkmenistan, averages 225 millimeters of rainfall annually.
Average annual temperatures range from highs of 16.8°C in Ashgabat to
lows of -5.5°C in Dashhowuz, on the Uzbek border in north-central
Turkmenistan. The almost constant winds are northerly, northeasterly, or
westerly.
Data as of March 1996
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