32°41′N128°45′E / 32.683°N 128.750°E /32.683; 128.750
Fukue Island (福江島,Fukue-jima) is the largest and southernmost of theGotō Islands inJapan.[1] It is part of the city ofGotō inNagasaki Prefecture.Gotō-Fukue Airport is on this island. As of July 31, 2016, the population is 38,481.[2]
Fukue has a generally warm and very wet climate (KöppenCfa) with hot and oppressively humid summers and cool, wet winters with practically no snowfall owing to the island’s southerly latitude. Despite this, during the winter months cold water transported south from theSea of Okhotsk by the eastern side of theSiberian High makes for very gloomy weather with scarcely any more sunshine than the “San‘in” coast fromHagi toWakkanai. Like the rest of Kyūshū, Fukue and the other Gotō Islands are prone totyphoons during summer and autumn which can give daily rainfalls as high as 432.5 millimetres (17.0 in) on 10 September 2005 and 433.5 millimetres (17.1 in) on 7 July 1987. The wettest month on record was July 1987 with 872 millimetres (34 in) and the driest was November 1971 with 3.5 millimetres (0.1 in).
| Climate data for Fukue (1991～2020, extremes 1962～present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) | 22.2 (72.0) | 23.0 (73.4) | 26.7 (80.1) | 29.8 (85.6) | 32.9 (91.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 35.9 (96.6) | 32.9 (91.2) | 30.6 (87.1) | 26.6 (79.9) | 23.3 (73.9) | 35.9 (96.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.8 (51.4) | 11.9 (53.4) | 14.9 (58.8) | 19.1 (66.4) | 23.0 (73.4) | 25.6 (78.1) | 29.4 (84.9) | 30.9 (87.6) | 27.8 (82.0) | 23.4 (74.1) | 18.5 (65.3) | 13.3 (55.9) | 20.5 (68.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) | 8.3 (46.9) | 10.7 (51.3) | 14.9 (58.8) | 18.8 (65.8) | 22.1 (71.8) | 26.2 (79.2) | 27.3 (81.1) | 24.1 (75.4) | 19.5 (67.1) | 14.6 (58.3) | 9.8 (49.6) | 17.0 (62.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 4.2 (39.6) | 4.3 (39.7) | 6.6 (43.9) | 10.4 (50.7) | 14.6 (58.3) | 19.0 (66.2) | 23.6 (74.5) | 24.2 (75.6) | 20.8 (69.4) | 15.7 (60.3) | 10.4 (50.7) | 6.0 (42.8) | 13.1 (55.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −4.1 (24.6) | −5.4 (22.3) | −2.4 (27.7) | 0.3 (32.5) | 5.2 (41.4) | 10.4 (50.7) | 15.7 (60.3) | 17.4 (63.3) | 10.4 (50.7) | 5.2 (41.4) | 1.3 (34.3) | −1.6 (29.1) | −5.4 (22.3) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 93.4 (3.68) | 109.5 (4.31) | 172.1 (6.78) | 216.1 (8.51) | 210.2 (8.28) | 324.2 (12.76) | 308.8 (12.16) | 239.6 (9.43) | 289.2 (11.39) | 132.7 (5.22) | 134.1 (5.28) | 108.9 (4.29) | 2,338.8 (92.09) |
| Average rainy days(≥ 0.5 mm) | 13.0 | 10.5 | 12.7 | 11.0 | 10.6 | 13.3 | 11.9 | 11.2 | 10.9 | 6.8 | 10.2 | 11.6 | 133.7 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 66 | 66 | 68 | 72 | 75 | 83 | 84 | 81 | 78 | 71 | 70 | 68 | 74 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 81.5 | 107.4 | 150.9 | 175.7 | 191.0 | 122.2 | 156.9 | 197.6 | 165.4 | 177.7 | 127.8 | 96.2 | 1,750.3 |
| Source 1: Japan Meteorological Agency[3] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2:Japan Meteorological Agency (records)[4] | |||||||||||||
