Since 1990, climate has had a mean annual temperature of 13.4°C (average minimum and maximum of 7.4 and 19.4°C, respectively).
It receives an annual rainfall of 700 950 mm and has an annual temperature range of 12 17 °C (SWARDO 2006).
During the growing seasons of the experiments (Fall 2000 Summer 2003), Channel Island sites had mean annual temperatures from 13.3 15.6°C and total precipitation from 14.9 54.9 cm/yr.
These distributions correspond more or less with zones having mean annual temperatures of 15 and 21 °C (60 and 70 °F) and, with rare exceptions, to areas having 500 mm (20 inches) or more of rainfall per year.
Lowlands below 1,500 feet (460 metres) have mean annual temperatures between 79 and 82 °F (26 and 28 °C).
Mountain basins and valleys, from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 metres), have mean annual temperatures of 66 and 73 °F (19 and 23 °C).
Tropical and sub-tropical cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, and Salvador, Brazil Calii, Cartagena, and Barranquilla, Colombia Delhi, Indiaa; Guangzhou, China and Manila, Philippiness have mean annual temperatures and seasonal temperature ranges that produced the largest epidemics.
The Gulf Coast area around Houston has average annual temperatures in the low 70s F (about 21 °C) and precipitation of some 45 inches (1,100 mm), whereas the Panhandle averages in the low 60s F (about 16 °C) with less than 20 inches (500 mm) of rain.
Most parts of the County have mean annual temperatures between 24°C and 30°C (Herlocker et al. 1993).
The DK site is also cooler and drier than most of the natural, mainly Northland, range of kauri, which generally has mean annual temperatures ≥13°C and rainfall ≥1200 mm (NIWA [2012b]).
