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Post by ๐๐ฟMรถrรถn๐๐ฟ on Apr 20, 2018 22:47:40 GMT -5
Nain, it averages 16cm of snow in June! I just applied to a job a few kms from here. Hopefully I get it as it would be an interesting location to check off the list of places I've lived: ![]()  The three big minuses for me are: -incredibly long winters, especially for the latitude (56.5N) -cold summers that barely qualify this as a subarctic (Dfc) climate. -questionable thunderstorm activity. The record highs are promising with three months above 90F but they probably happened on dry days. I'll have to look into that deeper though. It's a solid C climate for me... |
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Post by Steelernation on Apr 20, 2018 23:13:22 GMT -5
F. Disgusting.
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Post by Beercules on Apr 20, 2018 23:13:39 GMT -5
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Post by knot on Apr 21, 2018 0:12:05 GMT -5
Catastrophic winter tempsโat least with lovely snowfall, but alas with shit (albeit variable) crummers; B.
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Post by Hlidskjalf on Apr 21, 2018 1:29:04 GMT -5
Interesting. Winters are long, extremely cold like in northern Siberia, while their summers have more in common with Reykjavik. They have the worst of both worlds.
The record high in January is impressive.
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Post by Nidaros on Apr 21, 2018 4:35:16 GMT -5
Nain sure is something special, with those very cold "taiga" - winters and still so wet and snowy, and cold summers. Just for fun I looked at climates in the very northernmost part of Norway most similar to Nain. One candidate is Kirkenes, the town bordering the Barents Sea and Russia. Although Kirkenes is a little warmer both in winter and summer, well all seasons, and drier with 50 % precip. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkenes#ClimateHonningsvรฅg very close to North Cape (on the same island) is another candidate; precipitation much closer to Nain, summers very similar, but winters are like 14c warmer...and spring like 4c warmer...but winters are very snowy in Honningsvรฅg just like Nain, so it would in that respect look more like the same, and precipitation days would be more similar. And of course Honningsvรฅg has the midnight sun and polar night, unlike Nain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honningsv%C3%A5gHmm, I think somewhere in the mountains of Southern /Central Norway is the best bet - more similar in latitude and still cold and snowy. Sognefjellhytta (Sogne mt lodge) at 1,413 m ASL, NE of Bergen, has very cold and very snowy winters, like Nain, and spring is also very similar (really winter...). The difference is that Sogne mt lodge has colder summers, warmest monthly mean ca 6c. Coldest winter ca -11c, so annual mean should be pretty similar to Nain. Normal here is 1961-90 www.yr.no/place/Norway/Oppland/Lom/Sognefjellhytta_observation_site/statistics.html?spr=engMaybe even better, Haukeliseter at 990 m ASL east of Bergen. Summers very similar and winters cold -but still like 9c milder than Nain - and snowy just like Nain, with up to 2 m snow on the ground. Spring is a little warmer though, but summers are very similar again. This is based on last year, as Haukeliseter has no normals as of yet. www.yr.no/place/Norway/Telemark/Vinje/Haukeliseter_testfelt_observation_site/statistics.htmlVenabu, at 930 m ASL east of the mountain chain, has cold winters (not as cold as Nain though) and summer temps almost exactly the same, very long snow cover. www.yr.no/place/Norway/Oppland/Ringebu/Venabu_observation_site/statistics.htmlAnd btw - good luck with your job application! |
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Post by nei on Apr 21, 2018 12:21:17 GMT -5
with the big snowfall totals and short, cool summers; it's one of the best sea-level places to grow an ice sheet if the climate cools. ๐๐ฟMรถrรถn๐๐ฟ 's old town of Iqaluit would be better, with shorter summers but less snow. Nain looks like it usually loses it snowpack in mid-May |
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Post by alex992 on Apr 21, 2018 13:03:36 GMT -5
It's great from October-April, but too cold the rest of the year. Also, there's too much seasonal lag. But the snowfall totals are epic, and it sure doesn't seem like a boring climate. I'd give it a C myself as well.
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Post by Crunch41 on Apr 21, 2018 21:46:45 GMT -5
How did it possibly reach 15C in January? That doesn't make any sense.
E. The long winters would be interesting, but too cold and summer is lacking. It probably gets a few warm days but there's also going to be many cold rainy days too.
What's more surprising is that there's jobs a few km from Nain. Nain is pretty small and isolated, and there doesn't seem to be anything around it. It's on Google street view.
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Post by ๐๐ฟMรถrรถn๐๐ฟ on Apr 21, 2018 21:52:59 GMT -5
How did it possibly reach 15C in January? That doesn't make any sense. E. The long winters would be interesting, but too cold and summer is lacking. It probably gets a few warm days but there's also going to be many cold rainy days too. What's more surprising is that there's jobs a few km from Nain. Nain is pretty small and isolated, and there doesn't seem to be anything around it. It's on Google street view. I think that record high in January might be false. Take a look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Valley-Goose_Bay#Climate |
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Post by Crunch41 on Apr 21, 2018 22:05:26 GMT -5
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Post by sari on Apr 21, 2018 23:11:48 GMT -5
All precipitation (rain, snow, rain days, snow days, etc) is great. Temperatures are not. All temperatures, average or record, need to be raised, quite a bit in the case of winter highs.
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Post by rpvan on Apr 21, 2018 23:16:26 GMT -5
F.
Basically cold and snowy year round.
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Post by Ariete on Apr 22, 2018 10:53:49 GMT -5
All months except October would be the coldest on record in Turku.
That fact alone makes it an F.
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Post by ilmc90 on Apr 22, 2018 11:45:51 GMT -5
A strong B+. Newfoundland features some of my favorite climates in the world, but Nain is just a little too cold for me. Maybe I could live in St. John's and have a vacation home in Nain.  |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 22, 2018 12:42:48 GMT -5
Not F- but at the same time not far away from that grade at all  |
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Post by chesternz on Apr 25, 2018 4:45:15 GMT -5
Interesting. Winters are long, extremely cold like in northern Siberia, while their summers have more in common with Reykjavik. They have the worst of both worlds. The record high in January is impressive. Nailed it. F for "frozen wasteland". |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2018 11:24:02 GMT -5
F-
No redeeming features whatsoever.
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Post by sari on Apr 25, 2018 15:59:14 GMT -5
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Post by alex992 on Apr 25, 2018 16:32:39 GMT -5
^ lol Interesting, streetviews of Nain show that they have quite tall trees, despite the meager summer temperatures: goo.gl/maps/f8LVax3V1TuOf course, vegetation is quite sparse overall but those trees are taller than I pictured. |
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