Qumarlêb County
Qumarlêb County is a county in the northeast of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, south-central Qinghai province, China.
Geography and climate
With an elevation of around, Qumarlêb County has an alpine climate, with long, frigid winters, and short, cool and rainy summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid September to late May and below from early December to mid-February. However, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, average highs are only below freezing from mid/late November until early March. Despite frequent rain during summer, when a majority of days sees rain, no month has less than 50 percent of possible sunshine; with monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 51 percent in June to 78 percent in November, the county seat receives 2,782 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, while the annual mean is. Over three-fourths of the annual precipitation of is delivered from June to September.Affected by global warming, the rate of temperature increase has increased significantly in the past 10 years. In August 2022, the hottest month in history was recorded, with an average temperature of, and the highest temperature ever recorded was on the 9th of that month. There was also an average high in August 2016.