Rate the climate: Jan Mayen, Norway

F-. Cold and wet year round

Winters aren't too cold but they are quite snowy. For people who like snow, certainly that has to count for something? 

Good to know... but then not many said which climate they liked in the southern hemisphere and a few complained that there aren't real winters. So I gave them a place with real winters but still didn't like it.... 

I personally only like tropical and subtropical climates.... Köppen D and E climates are like kryptonite to me. 

Perhaps people who hate warmth of any kind want 40 degree drizzly summers? I don't know. Köppen D & E climates have one important thing in common. Ice and snow are dominant for at least a part of the year. That's why I can't stand them. 

E climates can exist with no months <0c if all months are <10c, so that rain is the predominant precipitation form even during the winter, as in: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Island#Climate, while D climates require at least one month to average <0c (or -3c). D climates. especially in the southern tiers of the zone usually have normal temperate vegetation, while all E climates lack trees. For someone whose ideal climate is say, Cleveland, they are expecting cold winters with snow, and also warm-to-hot summers, so somewhere like Jan Mayen is simply unappealing, and a subtropical climate with milder winters may very well better suit  their personal preferences. Many people on here prioritize summer warmth over avoiding cold winters; so for even some of the  other subtropical-to-tropical climate lovers on here, whose ideal could be say, Buenos Aires, may very well prefer Beijing over somewhere like Bergen (or for some, even somewhere like San Francisco), due to the summer heat, despite the colder winters. 

Point taken about the Southern Hemisphere E climates. It totally slipped my mind. I would still take somewhere like Macquarie Island over Yakutsk though even if that may not be a popular choice. I guess people only really mostly like Dfa/Dfb climates on this forum. 

deneb78 The most popular climate types on here are probably Af, Csa, Cfa, Dfa, and Dfb

D- those summers

Winters are very nice though for the latitude, not absurdly cold. But lack of any type of warm is a huge deterrent.

F- unlivable, which the island also happens to be.