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In spring which is from September to October the country experiences very high temperatures which can go as high as 44 °C in most parts of the country. [11] Botswana has received below-normal rainfall and more frequent droughts. [12] Wet days in Botswana varies throughout the year. A wet day is measured at 0.04 inches of liquid precipitation.
Highest dew point temperature: A dew point of 35 °C (95 °F) — while the temperature was 42 °C (108 °F) — was observed at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, at 3:00 p.m. on 8 July 2003. [ 201 ] Highest heat index : In the observation above at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the heat index ("feels like" temperature) was 81.1 °C (178.0 °F).
Tshabong is the site of Botswana's coldest recorded temperature, registering a temperature of −15.0 °C (5.0 °F). [2] [when?] The record high temperature registered in Tsabong was 42.6 °C (108.7 °F). [2] [when?] The town is served by Tshabong Airport. The Botswana Prison Service (BPS) operates the Tsabong Prison. [3]
Sua Pan Airport or Sowa Airport (IATA: SXN, ICAO: FBSN) is an airport 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) west of Sowa, a town in the Central District of Botswana. The runway is between the north and south basins of the Sua Pan (also known as Sowa Pan), a salt pan where sodium carbonate (soda ash) is mined. Sowa means salt in the language of the San. [4] [5]
This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .
In the same year, Palisadoes Airport (now Norman Manley International) and Montego Bay Airport (now Sangster International) were established. The airport was featured in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). From October 1968, it was the hub for Jamaica's flag carrier, Air Jamaica, until that airline ceased operations during 2015.
Aerodrome reference temperature is defined by ICAO (Convention on International Civil Aviation, Annex 14, Vol. I, 2.4.1) as the monthly mean of the daily maximum temperatures for the hottest month of the year (the hottest month being that which has the highest monthly mean temperature). This temperature should be averaged over a period of years.
Khwai River Airport (IATA: KHW, ICAO: FBKR) is an airport serving the lodges and camps around the village of Khwai in Botswana. The runway is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the Moremi Game Reserve north gate, and 700 metres (0.4 mi) from one of the Khwai River hippo ponds. The game reserve is on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta.