Climate
Briefly
The area has a comparatively high average rainfall, with the coastal and mountain regions receiving over 1000mm per annum. Snow is not uncommon at high altitudes in winter, but the remainder of the country is temperate with high sub-tropical temperatures along the coast in summer.
The summer rainy seasons are sub tropically warm and pleasant, while the winters are mild and fine (and pleasant). High temperatures in January (mid summer) reach about 28 degrees C, and in June (winter) about 21 degrees, with lows of 17 and 9 degrees respectively.
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Tags: Global Warming
Tue, 2007-09-18 05:06 | 
Thanks to Dre for this info:
To give a sense of how dramatic the (climatic) changes have been over the last 28 years, the figures below show the minimum ice extent in September 1979, and the situation today (Aug 9, 2007)
The reduction is around 1.2 million square km of ice, a little bit larger than the size of California and Texas combined.
Pasted from <http://www.realclimate.org/
