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Post by firebird1988 on Aug 7, 2021 23:09:24 GMT -5
No, sun belt makes me think of somewhere warm. Inland south California counts, but SF shouldn't count IMO. Places like Livermore, Dublin and Concord are definitely warm in summer with average highs in the upper 80s-around 90°F in August |
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Post by ilmc90 on Aug 8, 2021 9:11:54 GMT -5
Doesn't look much different than San Francisco which many Americans would consider mild. San Francisco is fake cold because its "cold" is literally just sea fog…and localised at that. Warrnambool on the other hand is real, raw, frontal cold. How is that fake cold? The marine layer is a natural cooling effect. There's nothing fake about it. As for Melbourne being part of the US sunbelt, I would say no. It's on the edge but summers are too mild and it's not sunny enough. |
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Post by Ariete on Aug 8, 2021 16:14:21 GMT -5
No, Melbourne is most of the year practically a subantarctic wasteland with the sky blanketed with low lying stratocrapulus. They get some 40C days a few times a crummer, but most of their crummer is not much unlike Fuxton or Aberdeen Scotland. This year fucken Turdku Artugaynen had the same mean temp in July as Essendon AB had in January, despite the latter having a whopping 23 degree benefit in latitude. There is a reason why hot lattes and mefffff are consumed a lot in Failbourne, and that's the cold, foggy, windy and cloudy unforgiving climate.
Melbourne was the first capital of Australia for a reason; it reminded the convicts and settlers of their homes in Belfast, Wrexham, Inverness, Falmouth, Newcastle, Castlederp etc. Even the polar foamers on Netweather.uk think Failbourne is a comfortable t-stormless climate where you can spend time outside in summer without fainting or die from dehydration.
Melbourne's winter averages might suggest a relatively mild climate, but they fail to recognise the subantarctic clag dominating the weather systems, and ignoring the bone-shattering dampness, windiness, neverending drizzle and Umeåesque levels of sunshine. I've heard Daniel Andrews himself is torn on about how to deal with AGW, because with global warming Failbourne could eventually because a more hospitable climate, like the one the Penroids experience.
If Curt Cobain would've been born and living in Melbourne, he would've shot his brain out years before he actually did.
Failbourne manifests what is the most foul in Australia, and that is not the treatment of Aboriginals or hipster culture in the inner city, but the sheer climate of Melbourne which could only rank high on supermaritime standards.
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