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Turkey has 7 distinct climate and regions.
Each one differs in humidity and seasons.
Turkey has a climate that is characterized
by great extremes and wide temperature
variations between regions and seasons.
The narrow coast land and mountain slopes
to the north, west and south have wetter
and milder winters than the interior
as well as moderately hot summers. The
interior plateau winters are cold with
frost while the summers are hot. Eastern
Turkey has bitter cold winters and hot
summers. Average annual precipitation
in Istanbul is 723 mm (28 inches) while
average temperature ranges in Ankara
are from -4 to 4 degrees Celsius (25
to 39 degrees Fahrenheit) in January
to 15 to 31 degrees Celsius (59 to 88
degrees Fahrenheit) in August.
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