Editing Penang (section)

===Climate===
{{Penang weatherbox}}Penang has a [[tropical rainforest climate]] under the [[Köppen climate classification]] (''Af''). The state experiences relatively consistent temperatures throughout the course of the year, with an average high of about 32&nbsp;°C and an average low of 24°C.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h17MWNlkEcwC&pg=PA400 |title=The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge |publisher=Charles Knight |year=1840 |page=400 }}</ref> Penang's proximity to [[Sumatra]] makes it susceptible to dust particles carried by wind from transient forest fires that create the perennial [[Southeast Asian haze]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 July 2013 |title=Why is South-East Asia's Annual Haze So Hard to Deal with? |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/07/economist-explains-3 |access-date=15 October 2016 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613 }}</ref> The Penang Meteorological Office at [[Bayan Lepas]] is the primary weather forecast facility for northwestern Malaysia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |url=http://ioc-unesco.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewInstitutionRecord&institutionID=18555 |access-date=28 February 2018 |publisher=UNESCO |language=en-gb }}</ref>