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Post by FrozenI69 on Dec 30, 2020 9:03:42 GMT -5
I wonder if the upper Midwest close to the Great Lakes has a Dsa/Dsb climate. Summers are warm, sunny, and increasingly and drier than winters which are cold and often snowy. What are your thoughts ? Do you think as time goes on this transition will happen.
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Post by Steelernation on Dec 30, 2020 12:25:40 GMT -5
No. Summer is the wet season there and Iād anything, these places are getting wetter.
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Post by Speagles84 on Dec 30, 2020 13:03:23 GMT -5
No, I have seen no scientific evidence of this. Also, as Steelers said, many climate locations show more precipitation in summer than winter, providing Dwb or Dwa climates.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2020 13:06:28 GMT -5
FrozenI69 LOL, nope. Yes August has been crap here a lot lately, but it's not going to be anywhere near Dsa/Dsb anytime soon even if the short-term pattern holds. I'm a lot closer to Dwx than I am to Dsx.
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Post by FrozenI69 on Dec 30, 2020 15:38:19 GMT -5
Ok. This summer felt a lot like a Dsa climate. Usually rainy summers are cooler ones, so if that happens many areas could become Dwb.
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Post by Crunch41 on Dec 30, 2020 15:59:45 GMT -5
Winter is drier than summer for me, in Milwaukee. Late spring and early summer is the wettest. Here is precipitation by season. The top graph is a 10 year moving average and the bottom is a linear trend. All seasons have become wetter, but the biggest increase is in summer.  Milwaukee is drier in winter but not dry enough to reach Dwa. That happens further west in the plains where some stations show as Dwa or Dwb. One example is Parshall which holds the record for the coldest temperature in North Dakota. This map using PRISM's estimated climate normals shows many small spots but generally the entire area is close to the limit for Dw. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2020 17:25:29 GMT -5
Crunch41 is that a small Csa area in central Texas on the map you linked?
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Post by knot on Dec 30, 2020 17:49:02 GMT -5
No. It's hemiboreal.
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Post by FrozenI69 on Dec 30, 2020 17:57:09 GMT -5
Crunch41 is that a small Csa area in central Texas on the map you linked? That is Hillsboro, Tx. The summer there is dry and hot as hell. |
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Post by firebird1988 on Dec 31, 2020 17:43:05 GMT -5
No. I think we're starting to get a more mediterranean precip pattern here (still desert overall though of course). The last 5 to 6 summers in a row have been drier than average, with last summer (2019) being one of the driest on record, and that came after a very wet fall and winter of 18-19
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