Climate
Rourkela has a tropical climate and receives high rainfall during Southwest monsoon (June – September) and retreating Northeast monsoon (December – January). Average annual rainfall ranges between 160 and 200 cm. The minimum and maximum temperatures are in the range of 7 C to 47 C with a mean minimum and maximum temperature range of 9.8 C to 39.2 C during coldest and hottest months. Thirty six percent of the geographical area of the district has semi-evergreen or tropical dry deciduous forest.
| Climate data for Rourkela | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 24 (75) |
27 (81) |
31 (88) |
36 (97) |
37 (99) |
33 (91) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
27 (81) |
24 (75) |
29.7 (85.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 9 (48) |
13 (55) |
17 (63) |
21 (70) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
19 (66) |
14 (57) |
10 (50) |
18.0 (64.4) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 22 (0.87) |
23 (0.91) |
29 (1.14) |
27 (1.06) |
55 (2.17) |
259 (10.2) |
334 (13.15) |
322 (12.68) |
255 (10.04) |
93 (3.66) |
19 (0.75) |
10 (0.39) |
1,448 (57.01) |
| Source: Rourkela Weather | |||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: Rourkela
Famous quotes containing the word climate:
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort—to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.—is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull,
On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,
Killing their fruit with frowns?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)