Ouallene
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Ouallene or Ouallen is a desert town and bordj[clarification needed] in southern Algeria. The village is located in the Adrar Province to the southeast of Reggane. The bordj sits at an elevation of about 346 m (1,135 ft) above sea level and lies in the heart of the Tanezrouft, one of the hottest and driest regions in the Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert.
Climate
[edit]Ouallene has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh), with a really long, torrid summer and a brief, very warm winter, and averages just 17 millimetres (0.67 in) of rainfall per year. The excessively sunny, hot, dry climate is marked by very high temperatures and near-zero precipitation all year-long. During many months of the year, highs of 40° are common and from June to August, inclusively, highs are consistently hovering around 45° with lows rarely dropping below 30°. The annual mean temperature exceeds 28° in Ouallene.
Climate data for Ouallene (2010 - 2013) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 24.5 (76.1) | 28.3 (82.9) | 33.1 (91.6) | 36.5 (97.7) | 41.0 (105.8) | 45.2 (113.4) | 45.2 (113.4) | 43.9 (111.0) | 42.7 (108.9) | 36.9 (98.4) | 31.6 (88.9) | 27.1 (80.8) | 36.3 (97.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.0 (60.8) | 19.9 (67.8) | 24.5 (76.1) | 27.9 (82.2) | 32.5 (90.5) | 36.4 (97.5) | 37.6 (99.7) | 36.7 (98.1) | 34.9 (94.8) | 29.7 (85.5) | 23.1 (73.6) | 18.6 (65.5) | 28.2 (82.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 7.7 (45.9) | 11.2 (52.2) | 15.9 (60.6) | 19.3 (66.7) | 24.0 (75.2) | 27.9 (82.2) | 30.1 (86.2) | 29.6 (85.3) | 27.0 (80.6) | 22.4 (72.3) | 14.6 (58.3) | 9.8 (49.6) | 20.0 (67.9) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.0 (0.12) | 1.0 (0.04) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.3 (0.01) | 0.3 (0.01) | 2.0 (0.08) | 9.5 (0.37) | 1.0 (0.04) | 0.3 (0.01) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 17.4 (0.68) |
Source: Global climatology for Ouallene, Algeria (2010 - 2013)[1] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Ouallene, Algeria". Infoclimat. Retrieved 31 May 2013.