Bala Murghab
History
Marw al-Rudh was a major medieval city in the Gharjistan region at the location of the modern city of Bala Murghab. The Abbasid-era geographers report that Marw al-Rudh was the center of a flourishing agricultural region in Khorasan, at the site where the Murghab River leaves the mountains and enters the steppe of the Karakum Desert. A section of the Harbiyya district of the Round city of Baghdad was named Marwrūdiyya (مرورودية) after the city of Marw al-Rudh. Although the town appears to have escaped the destruction of Marw al-Shahijan (modern Mary, Turkmenistan) by the Mongols, it fell into ruins under the Timurids and was largely abandoned.
Climate
With a warm and temperate climate, Bala Murghab features a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen climate classification. The average temperature in Bala Murghab is 16.1 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 326 mm.
July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 28.6 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of 3.6 °C.
Climate data for Bala Murghab | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.7 (47.7) |
9.7 (49.5) |
16.2 (61.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
29.5 (85.1) |
35.3 (95.5) |
37.2 (99.0) |
35.4 (95.7) |
30.8 (87.4) |
24.4 (75.9) |
17.5 (63.5) |
11.5 (52.7) |
23.2 (73.8) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.6 (38.5) |
5.0 (41.0) |
10.6 (51.1) |
16.3 (61.3) |
21.4 (70.5) |
26.4 (79.5) |
28.6 (83.5) |
26.8 (80.2) |
21.8 (71.2) |
16.0 (60.8) |
10.5 (50.9) |
6.0 (42.8) |
16.1 (60.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.4 (29.5) |
0.3 (32.5) |
5.0 (41.0) |
9.9 (49.8) |
13.3 (55.9) |
17.5 (63.5) |
20.1 (68.2) |
18.3 (64.9) |
12.8 (55.0) |
7.7 (45.9) |
3.6 (38.5) |
0.6 (33.1) |
9.0 (48.2) |
Source: Climate-Data.org |