Gangaw

Gangaw has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) with three seasons. The “cool” season from December to February is dry and clear with cool mornings and very warm to hot afternoons, gradually heating up to the sweltering and unpleasant “hot” season from March to mid-May, and to the monsoonal wet season from mid-May to October. Rainfall in Gangaw is lessened substantially by rain shadow effects from the Arakan Mountains to the west, although the city is less dry than Pakokku or Mandalay. The rainfall collected on 19 October 2011 was a new record for Gangaw for October over the past 47 years. The previous record was on 3 October 1980. ==References==