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  2. Temperate rainforest - Wikipedia

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    Temperate rainforests ... (79 to 236 in) of average annual rainfall. ... Temperate rainforest occurs in fragments across the north and west of Europe in countries ...

  3. List of countries by average annual precipitation - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by average annual precipitation. List. Per the World Bank (2017) [1] [2] Country mm/ year) Continent 1

  4. Appalachian temperate rainforest - Wikipedia

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    In order to be defined as a rainforest, the forest must average at least 140 cm (55 in) of precipitation annually and a temperate rainforest as opposed to a tropical rainforest is defined by a mean annual temperature between 4 and 12 degrees Celsius (39 and 54 degrees Fahrenheit).

  5. Köppen climate classification - Wikipedia

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    Cwb = Subtropical highland climate or Monsoon-influenced temperate oceanic climate; coldest month averaging above 0 °C (32 °F) (or −3 °C (26.6 °F)), all months with average temperatures below 22 °C (71.6 °F), and at least four months averaging above 10 °C (50 °F). At least ten times as much rain in the wettest month of summer as in ...

  6. Temperate climate - Wikipedia

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    A Köppen–Geiger climate map showing temperate climates for 1991–2020 The different geographical zones of the world. The temperate zones, in the sense of geographical regions defined by latitude, span from either north or south of the subtropics (north or south of the orange dotted lines, at 35 degrees north or south) to the polar circles.

  7. Pacific temperate rainforests - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific temperate rain forests are characterized by a high amount of rainfall, in some areas more than 300 cm (10 ft) per year and moderate temperatures in both the summer and winter months (10–24 °C or 50–75 °F).

  8. Valdivian temperate forests - Wikipedia

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    The water vapour held by the westerlies condenses as they encounter the windward slope of the Chilean Coast Range and the Andes, creating orographic rainfall. Average annual precipitation varies from 1,000 mm at the northern edge of the ecoregion to more than 6,000 mm per year in the south. [2]

  9. North American inland temperate rainforest - Wikipedia

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    In general, the inland rainforest patches are restricted to areas with extraordinarily humid climate. [10] For most of the year, pacific storm systems and maritime air masses moved into the interior by the prevailing westerlies create a zone of high precipitation when intersecting with the longitudinally oriented mountain ranges of that area ...