The temperature in the Taiga is Very Low. Seasons are divided into short, moist, and moderately warm summers where day light is almost 20 hours long and primarily long cold and dry winters lasting for six to seven months. Fall is extreemly short and Spring brings flowers as well as causing ponds to melt and brings animals out of hibernation. Taiga is labeled a DFC Climate. The C means that fewer than 4 months in a year have an average temperature over 50 degrees fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) . Cold winds create bitterly cold air from the Arctic Circle as well. When there is no cloud cover the nights get even colder. The tilt of the earth causes winters to be in almost darkness as well as have no sun radiation to reach the ground and warm it up. In the winter temperatures can fall to -76 degrees fahrenheit (-60 degrees Celsius) and do not go above 30 degrees fahrenheit (-1.1 degrees Celsius). Summer drops to 30 degrees fahrenheit (-1.1 degrees Celsius) and does not go above 104 degrees fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) though the average in 59 degrees fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius). Therefore half the year is spent below freezing though higher than that of the tundra.