Why would I want to leave here and travel to the tropics in February? Today had a low of minus 28 degrees Fahrenheit, that's 28 degrees below zero. Cedar Rapids has four definite seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. When considering the entire year there is a temperature differential of 130 degrees in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That's from a low of 30 below to a high of 100 degrees.
Viet Nam has 2 seasons: rainy and dry. More specifically, it is subject to a classic monsoon climate, but is divided into north and south climatically. In the northern part, the rainy season is from September through February. In the southern half the rainly season is from March through August. The Central Highlands and northward can be quite cool in the rainy season. This writer remembers temperatures as low as 40 degrees F in the the wintertime, er.. in the middle of the rainy season from September to March. In the flat southern part of Viet Nam, of course, the temperature ranges from quite warm to hot and humid, especially in the wet season from March through August.
The southern tip of Viet Nam is at about 10 degrees north latitude. Way up north around Hanoi, it's at about 22 degrees north latitude. All tolled, the entire length of Viet Nam is about 14 degrees of latitude. If you figure 66.7 miles for every degree, the length of Viet Name is about 933 miles.
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