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Post by Steelernation on Apr 16, 2022 23:39:27 GMT -5
All these definitions are stupid.
A 4 season climate is anywhere with a period with lower temps and shorter days and a period with high temps and longer days. Spring and fall are by definition transition seasons, so if the above criteria are net, there’s automatically spring and fall as well.
I’d say maybe >10-12 f of seasonal range and >~15 degrees of latitude counts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2022 23:48:22 GMT -5
Humid continental
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Post by firebird1988 on Apr 17, 2022 10:19:17 GMT -5
Honestly, any climate that isn't tropical or polar is a four season climate. I consider Phoenix to have 4 seasons. Winter is noticably colder than spring/fall, and summer is noticably hotter than spring/fall
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Apr 17, 2022 16:30:01 GMT -5
I consider a four season climate to be anywhere that has both, what I define arbitrarily as, a summer month and a winter month. If it has both summer and winter, then it also has both spring and fall.
I'd consider a "summer" month generically as any month with a mean temperature above 60F (16C), and a "winter" month as any month with a mean below 50F (15C). Thus, many warmer subtropical climates, like Jacksonville or Phoenix, are not four season climates IMO, as they lack to meet this winter month threshold, instead just having springlike or falllike weather during the cool season. Similarly, a place could have no summer, and instead possess springlike conditions during the warm season. The tropics are also defined by a lack of winter months.
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Post by Benfxmth on Apr 17, 2022 16:37:12 GMT -5
All these definitions are stupid. A 4 season climate is anywhere with a period with lower temps and shorter days and a period with high temps and longer days. Spring and fall are by definition transition seasons, so if the above criteria are net, there’s automatically spring and fall as well. I’d say maybe >10-12 f of seasonal range and >~15 degrees of latitude counts. Absolutely agree on this, it's relative. I cringe when people claim a climate has "four defined seasons" using the muh "deep snowpack" criteria. |
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Post by Steelernation on Apr 17, 2022 16:42:50 GMT -5
, many warmer subtropical climates, like Jacksonville or Phoenix, are not four season climates IMO, as they lack to meet this winter month threshold, instead just having springlike or falllike weather during the cool season. Similarly, a place could have no summer, and instead possess springlike conditions during the warm season. The tropics are also defined by a lack of winter months.
Yeah im so sure you’d be wandering around Phoenix in January going “ah this is a lovely fall isn’t it”. Nope, it’s winter. And what would you call October or April? Much warmer than the winter months and cooler than the summer months, obviously those are spring and fall. |
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