Climate

The Boreal forest (or taiga) is a coniferous forest with cold, long, frozen winters and short, humid, cool summers. The winter temperature range is -54 to -1° C (-65 to 30° F). Temperature range in the summer is -7° C (20° F) to 21° C (70° F). The total precipitation in a year is 30 - 85 cm (12 - 33 in) . The forms the precipitation comes in are rain, snow and dew. Most of the precipitation in the taiga falls as rain in the summer.