Post by Lommaren on May 28, 2018 19:12:29 GMT -5
While doing research on Belgian climates I discovered that the Wallonian language (a separate Romance language from French) is a minority language in Door County in North East Wisconsin. The county seat is called Sturgeon Bay and is on Lake Michigan and is probably the most interesting Wisconsin climate I've seen yet.
While being more moderated by the lake than Green Bay, there's no significant lake-effect snow and it's not much colder than Milwaukee during daytime at peak summer, the main difference being diurnals being higher as a result of the slightly higher latitude. Still 44°N is low enough to cause significant diurnal swings that even Lake Michigan can't hinder. The moderation also results in quite stable summers. Sturgeon Bay normally only hits 33.2°C in any given year, leading to many days in the mid-high 20's °C. Extreme winter cold snaps are also rarer than in areas farther west. The short peak winter is similar to Umeå in average temps for January, but from April through May is more resembles my climate before June-September really picking up once Lake Michigan warms.
Due to summers being at perfection level it gets a C- and surpassed my climate by a mere coin toss: it's probably relatively sunny as well. Green Bay would get about 2,230 hours by worldwide standards judging by its official 2,496, so being closer to the lakeshore proper it should at least get equal. So, while Green Bay is slightly worse than the climate I live in, Sturgeon Bay instead is a narrow touch better!
While being more moderated by the lake than Green Bay, there's no significant lake-effect snow and it's not much colder than Milwaukee during daytime at peak summer, the main difference being diurnals being higher as a result of the slightly higher latitude. Still 44°N is low enough to cause significant diurnal swings that even Lake Michigan can't hinder. The moderation also results in quite stable summers. Sturgeon Bay normally only hits 33.2°C in any given year, leading to many days in the mid-high 20's °C. Extreme winter cold snaps are also rarer than in areas farther west. The short peak winter is similar to Umeå in average temps for January, but from April through May is more resembles my climate before June-September really picking up once Lake Michigan warms.
Due to summers being at perfection level it gets a C- and surpassed my climate by a mere coin toss: it's probably relatively sunny as well. Green Bay would get about 2,230 hours by worldwide standards judging by its official 2,496, so being closer to the lakeshore proper it should at least get equal. So, while Green Bay is slightly worse than the climate I live in, Sturgeon Bay instead is a narrow touch better!
