Is there winter in Africa?

There is winter in Africa, and it also snows in some African areas in winter.

It snows in some African countries, and it also snows in Egypt. In addition to Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Ethiopia, and Lesotho in Africa will also have snowy weather.

Most people have deep misunderstandings about Africa. For example, they think that Africa is like summer all year round and the climate is hot. In fact, this is not the case. Some places in Africa also have winter and even snow. The hot climate has seasonal and regional characteristics. , not all of Africa is like this. There must be snow in the tropics. It is above the snow line of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Mainly due to the terrain, it is in the alpine zone.

Africa's climate:

Africa is known as the "tropical continent". Its climate is characterized by high temperature, little rain, and dryness, and the distribution of climate zones is symmetrical from north to south. The equator runs across the center, and temperatures generally decrease with increasing latitude from the equator. Approximately 95% of the continent's area has an average annual temperature above 20°C. More than half of the areas are hot all year round, and nearly half of the areas have hot warm seasons and warm cool seasons.

Dallol in northeastern Ethiopia has an average annual temperature of 34.5°C, making it one of the places with the highest annual average temperature in the world. In Aziziya, south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the temperature reached 57.8°C on September 13, 1922, the highest temperature in Africa.

Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia-Africa