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Climate analysis
Average Annual Temperatures
Armenia has a tremendous climatic variety packed in a small physical
area. Much of this is due to Armenia’s unique weather systems, which mix
moisture from heavy snowfalls in the mountains and the Black and Caspian
Seas with hot blasts of air from the Syrian and Iranian plateaus. The
complicity of its topographical contest has a big impact on its climate.
As presented in the diagrams, about half of Armenia’s area has an elevation
of at least 2.000m which creates high mountains with snowy and cold
winters. Those mountains are covered by large forests in North-eastern and
Southern Armenia and therefore are producing their own climates. While
the mountains may be covered with snow, lower valleys are clear, getting
their irst spring lowers as early as the end of January.
Meanwhile, due to its particular landscape, the central area of the country
is considered dry and warm. That means that Ararat Valley which is one of
the lowest areas in Armenia, and does not receive as much snowfall or rain
as the upper elevations is has the warmer climate in the country with an
average summer temperature that range ranges 25-30° C.
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