Russia - The Lake Baikal Area
Just over the border from Mongolia, the eclipse track begins
to turn northward, nudging past the border with China. One of
the routes to the eclipse track is overland from Harbin in Manchuria
to the Russian city of Cita. The center line of the eclipse passes
just south of Cita, but the overland trip will be a difficult
one, crossing two mountain ranges along the way.
Figure 7 and
table 14
suggest that there is little to be gained in this area
from a weather perspective. Cloud cover improves slightly but
temperatures fall, as seen in the statistics for Nerchinskiy Zavo,
which can be compared to those at Ulaanbaatar in
table 14. Winters
are cold, with a thin snow cover and a high frequency of clear
skies. These conditions continue northeast along the eclipse track
as far as 55°N, where access by way of the Trans-Siberian
Express comes to an end when the railway route turns southeastward
toward Vladivostok.
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