The record highest low temperature is  on August 12, 2013, making Tokyo one of only seven observation sites in Japan that have recorded a low temperature over . Annual rainfall averages nearly , with a wetter summer and a drier winter. The growing season in Tokyo lasts for about 322 days from around mid February to early January. Snowfall is sporadic, but does occur almost annually. Tokyo also often sees typhoons every year, though few are strong. The wettest month since records began in 1876 was October 2004, with  of rain, including  on the ninth of that month; the last of four months on record to observe no precipitation is December 1995. Annual precipitation has ranged from  in 1984 to  in 1938.