page_title: Laohu Valley Reserve
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Laohu Valley Reserve / Climate
caption_attribution_description: English: Madonna, South China Tigress, in snow
context_page_description: The Laohu Valley Reserve is a nature reserve located near Philippolis in the Free State and near Vanderkloof Dam in the Northern Cape of South Africa. It is a roughly 350-square-kilometre private reserve.
  It has been created with the aims of nurturing captive-born South China tigers in South Africa and eventually releasing them into the wild in China. It is also aimed to restore South African biodiversity in the parts of the reserve not populated by tigers.
context_section_description: Mean annual rainfall is about 400 mm. About 60% of the annual rainfall occurs in the form of thunderstorms during January-April. The maximum amount of rain generally falls during March, with June generally being the driest month. Summer days are hot, but frost is common during winter, with occasional snowfall.
caption: A South China tigress at Laohu Valley Reserve during the winter.
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