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Climatic Features: subtropical, humid, monsoon climate; short winters with low temperatures in the south and the northwestern mountains; frequent rainstorms between spring and summer; droughts from summer to autumn

Average Temperature: 1,250 - 1,750 mm; high precipitation on the seaward side of mountains; 40 percent of the rain falls from April to June

Physical Features: mountains and hills cover 80 percent of the province; a small plain surrounds Dongting Lake in the central north

Mountains: Wuling Mountains in the northwest; Xuefeng Mountains in the central west; Luoxiao Mountains in the east; Nanting Mountains in the south

Rivers: Xiangjiang, Yuanjiang, Zishui, Lishui Rivers and Yangtze River

Lakes: Dongting and Datong Lakes

[RightWhale]

Average Temperature: 1,250 - 1,750 mm

What is that? If it's the length of a column of mercury versus temperature, that's quite a large temperature swing given the coefficient of thermal expansion.