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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 18:13:44 GMT -5
This is rather unique by Swedish standards. Slightly elevated, close to the rainy Kattegat coastline, but far enough inland for both warm and cold spells to take hold. Storms are rather common. Sunshine will not be very high, but it's hard to say, higher 1600's something most likely. It's gotten rainier since the 1961-1990 normals, but whether it's gotten snowier is an open question. Winters are balancing just around freezing most of the time, with the wettest winter month usually being the mildest, in contrast to my side of Sweden where the distribution of winter precipitation type matches better with temperatures. As a result, it's very hard to properly suggest what the snowfall for Borås is like in a calendar year. My best estimation is about 95 cm, in spite of all the winter precipitation, and most of it will turn into sleet rather quickly, since it will fall in "Bergen-like" months. For example, January 2007 received 224.6 mm for 4.5/-1.2 averages. That may have yielded half a metre that time, but hardly any more than that. Because of the warm temperatures, no more than 16 cm stuck at the same time, the rest got thawed away. In February of 2010, to Borås' defence a cold winter yielded 67 cm on the ground, which is a miraculous reading nowadays when the weather's milder. A more typical example of a cool winter month, namely February 2018 yielded a peak cover of just 26 cm, which is ridiculous for such a wet-winter climate inland on its 57°N latitude. December 2006 was the worst, when 234.2 mm in the winter solstice month failed to accumulate even 1 cm of snow! Essentially, it's like Hokkaido reversed!
Anyway, it's a D- bordering on an E+ for me. Way too much cold rain, too windy, too gloomy and summers are really poor, especially August which is unacceptable even by Scandinavian, let alone South Sweden standards! Had winters been more favourable towards snow it'd fared better, but nothing worse than windy, gloomy single-digit ultra-cold rainfall. The only thing it's got going for it is that May and September are rather okay for its latitude.
Torup is Sweden's rainiest station, but it's not a town, by the way. Also, I haven't checked Ulricehamn nearby but it's not really a large town in any case. Borås is, after all, the regional centre for the interior of the West Gothian region. Here are individual parametres: Average temperature:  Max/min:  Precipitation (Excel auto-divides the amount differently compared to the weatherbox, hence the 0.1 mm difference annually versus month-by-month):  Good luck cherrypicking from that misery  Crunch41 |
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Post by Steelernation on Apr 14, 2019 18:35:14 GMT -5
E/E+. One of the worst Swedish climates I’ve seen outside of the far north.
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 18:38:29 GMT -5
E/E+. One of the worst Swedish climates I’ve seen outside of the far north. Borås is a perfect storm of all the worst factors that could ever befall a Gulf Stream climate, sort of reminding me of the rainiest Nova Scotian climates in how to have the worst luck. The subarctic precipitation pattern on the Baltic Sea makes for a twice as good climate even as temperatures are rather similar throughout. Wouldn't you say even Yarmouth is a touch better than this? At least it receives more snow and sunshine... |
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Post by knot on Apr 14, 2019 18:44:13 GMT -5
Quite a petty B–; good summer variability by minima (however, too stable by maxima), and too washed-out in summer; contrarywise, winters yield a tremendously poor snowfall:rainfall ratio, thereby sundering its rating.
This climate barely even makes the satisfactory cut—in fact, it is unsatisfactory. Very dissapointing for the wettest town in Sweden...you'd expect an awful lot more snowfall than that.
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 18:46:51 GMT -5
Quite a petty B–; good summer variability by minima (however, too stable by maxima), and too washed-out in summer; contrarywise, winters yield a tremendously poor snowfall:rainfall ratio, thereby sundering its rating. This climate barely even makes the satisfactory cut—in fact, it is unsatisfactory. Very dissapointing for the wettest climate in Sweden...you'd expect an awful lot more snowfall than that. Torup is the wettest overall. It's probably not snowier in general though. 1.3/-3.9 with prevailing westerlies will not bode well. Back 100 years ago, I'd reckon Borås could've been an A- climate for yourself, back when it was cold enough to render a lot of snowfall? |
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Post by knot on Apr 14, 2019 18:51:46 GMT -5
Torup is the wettest overall. It's probably not snowier in general though. 1.3/-3.9 with prevailing westerlies will not bode well. Back 100 years ago, I'd reckon Borås could've been an A- climate for yourself, back when it was cold enough to render a lot of snowfall? Would a climate box spanning from 1901-Current (or 1901-2018) be within reach for you to establish? I'd love to see a climate box with proper long averages (i.e. at least half-a-century), not 15-year "averages". The broader the averages span, the better. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 18:53:42 GMT -5
D. Much too cold year-round. Winter is way too cold, long, and snowy, although 95cm is better (i.e. less) than I expected. Transitions are way too chilly and summers are very weak.
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 18:56:28 GMT -5
Max and mins are not available from before 1961 online even though the current station was established in 1931 knot. Precipitation is available since 1895. Maybe I could do 1931-1960 general means + precipitation even though distributions would be hard to say. |
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Post by sari on Apr 14, 2019 20:48:34 GMT -5
Would have been really nice if not for the weak snowfall you talked about. B-
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 20:51:39 GMT -5
Would have been really nice if not for the weak snowfall you talked about. B- Yes, it's a great shame. Unfortunately it's very much part of the game there. Had it been farther inland with that precipitation pattern, it'd been like Nova Scotia. |
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Post by Steelernation on Apr 14, 2019 21:25:14 GMT -5
Not at all. Yarmouth has much colder springs, cooler summers, less heat potential and more rain. No comparison. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 14, 2019 21:27:28 GMT -5
Not at all. Yarmouth has much colder springs, cooler summers, less heat potential and more rain. No comparison. I can see your point Steeler, I really can. Neither are pleasant at all. I'm just rather pro-snow and anti-rain, so the 207 cm of snow would appear a bit less unfavourable to me, but they're both D/D- for sure! |
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Post by tij on Apr 14, 2019 22:06:52 GMT -5
Wow this town really isn't that wet! It's drier than here in Providence... admittedly evapotranspiration in Sweden is lower but in my opinion Sweden runs on the drier side. That being said, due to the weak summers and transitions here, I believe a C/C+ makes the most sense gradewise.
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Post by Crunch41 on Apr 14, 2019 23:38:10 GMT -5
Too wet and too oceanic, but not too bad. The rainy winters, instead of snowy winters, brings the grade down to a C. Cold rain is boring and cold. I made a decent cherrypick, but it was hard to find good fall months and spring is too dry since I started by finding the driest months. The wettest place in Sweden is not very wet, so it's not too hard to avoid wet months. If sun was added it would be slightly harder. Most months are 2010 or 2018, the years that were the most continental. A real challenge would be Bergen or Reykjavik. Only bad and worse months to pick from.  1-2010 2-2010 3-2013///4-2009 5-2018 6-2018///7-2018 8-2002 9-2006///10-2005 11-2010 12-2010 |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 15, 2019 5:33:26 GMT -5
Crunch41 and tij here are the wettest months in the past 17 years in one weatherbox for Borås! Looks a lot rainier and a lot more like Bergen now, doesn't it? 
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Post by tij on Apr 15, 2019 5:51:29 GMT -5
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Post by Morningrise on Apr 18, 2019 21:50:24 GMT -5
C-. Too cool in the summer, too wet overall, and very likely too gloomy.
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