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Post by Lommaren on Aug 19, 2018 17:40:39 GMT -5
The site of a famous amphitheatre NASCAR oval of half a mile with high banking, Bristol is a small twin-state urban area on the state line between Tennessee and Virginia. It's fair to say it's influenced by its inland position at some elevation as well. Sunshine is probably somewhere in between 2,200 hours and 2,500 hours would be my guess.
For me this is one of the best Eastern climates in the US: summers are quite manageable due to the moderate nights, whereas mild days and frequent frosts in winter is quite pleasant.
B- but in the upper bracket of a said grade.
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Post by knot on Aug 19, 2018 17:42:30 GMT -5
A+, fucken!Perfect temperatures, splendid precipitation & storms, lovely snowfall, unstable...just bloody perfect!  It is also at a lovely latitude of 36° N, too! No ugly polar twilight to worry about
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Post by Lommaren on Aug 19, 2018 17:46:16 GMT -5
Are we talking one of the best climates in the world here if not the best, knot ? |
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Post by Steelernation on Aug 19, 2018 17:48:27 GMT -5
C+. Good for the eastern US but its still much too wet, not snowy enough and summers look REALLY boring and the heat potential is very lame for those averages.
Hell, even Rochester gets a similar average record high and our summer highs are 4 f cooler.
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Post by knot on Aug 19, 2018 17:49:15 GMT -5
Are we talking one of the best climates in the world here if not the best, knot ? Most certainly! |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Aug 19, 2018 18:04:22 GMT -5
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Post by alex992 on Aug 19, 2018 18:16:12 GMT -5
Good for the South, but still far from ideal. Could be more continental. C-
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Post by AJ1013 on Aug 19, 2018 18:26:31 GMT -5
A.
Incredibly good climate, probably one of the best I've ever seen.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 19:37:48 GMT -5
C.
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Post by Lommaren on Aug 20, 2018 7:43:02 GMT -5
A. Incredibly good climate, probably one of the best I've ever seen. Normally climates with winter diurnals so often tend to be dry, so I guess the snowfall helps its cause? Essentially this is a Western Midwest light but with cooler summers and greater winter precipitiation.
Either way seeing as Donar is rating some climates at this moments, what are your thoughts on this one? Seems like your kind of place just as much as AJ's. |
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Post by Donar on Aug 20, 2018 8:04:59 GMT -5
Autumn and winter avg highs are too warm (although I guess it sees many ice days from cold snaps, the variability would be interesting). Record highs are lame for such warm summers, the stability would be quite boring. Also not enough snow.
B-.
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Post by Giorbanguly on Aug 20, 2018 9:48:37 GMT -5
B-, it's like an improved NYC
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Post by Ariete on Aug 20, 2018 10:06:42 GMT -5
Autumn and winter avg highs are too warm (although I guess it sees many ice days from cold snaps, the variability would be interesting). Record highs are lame for such warm summers, the stability would be quite boring. Also not enough snow. B-.
This.
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Post by sari on Aug 20, 2018 16:08:33 GMT -5
If someone forced me to pick a far-south US climate to live in...I would choose Boone. This would be second place. It's really basically KC with slightly better summers and slightly worse winters.
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Post by ral31 on Aug 25, 2018 10:57:43 GMT -5
A-. A bit cooler than preferred during the warmer part of the year.
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Post by alex992 on Aug 25, 2018 15:58:09 GMT -5
If someone forced me to pick a far-south US climate to live in...I would choose Boone. This would be second place. It's really basically KC with slightly better summers and slightly worse winters. Would you really consider Boone or Bristol "far south"? |
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Post by Lommaren on Aug 25, 2018 16:06:24 GMT -5
Was actually thinking the same. Far south for me is south of Savannah (make that 32°N). By then, winters tend to have at least 15°C avg highs and while frosts occur, they're not necessarily happening on a weekly basis even in inland areas beneath that point. Technically that's just halfway between Baltimore and Miami though, but due to the peninsular, separate shape of Florida it's pretty much its own climate. As soon as peninsular Florida starts, the winters become extremely disconnected from the rest of the south and winter means skyrocket.
Jacksonville 18/5 Daytona 20/8 Orlando 22/10
So, it would be unfair to classify Florida as anything other than as the tropical-like (or real tropical) peninsula it is, so I think the low 30's latitude is where the meteorological far south is located, definitely not in North East Tennessee for sure...
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Post by alex992 on Aug 25, 2018 16:24:06 GMT -5
No frosts on a weekly basis would be much further south than Savannah, more like south of Ocala. North FL and South GA/AL/MS definitely see frosts and freezes on a weekly basis in winter.
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Post by Lommaren on Aug 25, 2018 17:29:08 GMT -5
Ground or air? I would assume that during warmer spells like maybe this February most places in South Georgia went at least a full week without a frost, this stuff has even happened 13 km from where I am in late December, so I would definitely assume that inland areas of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi can get periods like these. They might not be all too frequent, I've never been there, but considering the average lows of at least 3°C compared to this station's avg low for December of -1°C and yet a full week with lows above 5°C, I'm sure most areas below 32°N experience quite regular occurrences of frost-free January weeks. At least every other year. Especially since they're capable of highs well above 20°C on many occasions.  |
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Post by alex992 on Aug 25, 2018 17:36:29 GMT -5
Yes, it's more than capable of doing so but it's not the norm. Tallahassee averages 30-33 freezes a year between late November and early March, about 1 in 3 days. Regions in southern GA and southern AL would average more.
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