Kvilda

Municipality of Kvilda lies on central plateau of Böhmerwald (Šumava) mountains at elevation of some 1045–1090 metres ASL (3430 – 3575 feet). This valley is often filled with cold air masses originating from nearby higher mountains; it is one of the coldest places in all central Europe with temperature minima often much below the freezing point even during summer season and even more so during colder seasons. Temperatures are sometimes plummeting to −20 °C (−4 °F) in April, −8 °C (18 °F) in summer and up to −42 °C (−44 °F) during winters.[4][5][6] Most winters see few weeks with at least −30 °C (−22 °F).[7] Kvilda enjoys a version of wet Subarctic climate (Dfc) with cold and wet conditions year round. Precipitations are equally in form of rain and snow, totalling 1135 mm. There are four pronounced seasons with very long, cold, wet, and sunny winter season starting in November and continuing well into April when it is changing to cool and wet spring. Growing season starts in May and ends in early September when short autumn, season of rapid cooling, starts. Summers are cold and wet. Average round the clock temperature in July averages +13.5 °C and January mean temperature equals to −5.2 °C. The whole year average is 4.3 °C (39.7 °F). Similar climate can be found in the Alps, Northern Eurasia and Northern America in places like Anchorage, Alaska, Crater Lake, Oregon, or Tromsø, Norway.

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