Salt lake in Tibet
Tangra Yumco (Tibetan: དྭངས་རྭ་གཡུ་མཚོ, Wylie: dwangs rwa g.yu mtsho, Chinese: 当惹雍错; pinyin: dāng rě yōng cuò) is a salt lake in Tibet, China. It is in the southwest of Nyima County. Tangra Yumco is 835.8 square kilometres (322.7 sq mi), with a drainage area of 8,219.7 square kilometres (3,173.6 sq mi), an elevation of 4,528 metres (14,856 ft), length 71.7 kilometres (44.6 mi) and mean width 11.65 kilometres (7.24 mi) (maximum width 19.4 metres [64 ft]).[1] It is the holy lake of the
Bön believers.
Climate
| Climate data for Tangra Yumco
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| Month
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Jan
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Feb
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Mar
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Apr
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May
|
Jun
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Jul
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Aug
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Sep
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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Year
|
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
|
−2.3
(27.9)
|
−0.6
(30.9)
|
2.3
(36.1)
|
6.8
(44.2)
|
10.9
(51.6)
|
15.6
(60.1)
|
15.4
(59.7)
|
14.3
(57.7)
|
12.5
(54.5)
|
7.5
(45.5)
|
1.8
(35.2)
|
−0.8
(30.6)
|
7.0
(44.5)
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| Daily mean °C (°F)
|
−10.3
(13.5)
|
−8.4
(16.9)
|
−5.0
(23.0)
|
−0.7
(30.7)
|
3.3
(37.9)
|
8.2
(46.8)
|
9.4
(48.9)
|
8.7
(47.7)
|
6.2
(43.2)
|
0.1
(32.2)
|
−5.8
(21.6)
|
−8.9
(16.0)
|
−0.3
(31.5)
|
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
|
−18.2
(−0.8)
|
−16.2
(2.8)
|
−12.3
(9.9)
|
−8.2
(17.2)
|
−4.3
(24.3)
|
0.9
(33.6)
|
3.4
(38.1)
|
3.1
(37.6)
|
0.0
(32.0)
|
−7.2
(19.0)
|
−13.4
(7.9)
|
−16.9
(1.6)
|
−7.4
(18.6)
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| Average precipitation mm (inches)
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4
(0.2)
|
3
(0.1)
|
5
(0.2)
|
5
(0.2)
|
7
(0.3)
|
21
(0.8)
|
66
(2.6)
|
72
(2.8)
|
27
(1.1)
|
7
(0.3)
|
1
(0.0)
|
3
(0.1)
|
221
(8.7)
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| Source: Climate-Data.org
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Notes
- ^ Sumin, Wang; Hongshen, Dou (1998). Lakes in China. Beijing: Science Press. p. 400. ISBN 7-03-006706-1.
