Post by Cheeseman on Sept 19, 2022 7:18:56 GMT -5
I thought of an interesting climate battle concept: the place one of my ancestors was from versus where I live currently.
Aarhus, Denmark is where my great-great-grandfather was born in the 1880s before moving to Wisconsin and starting a family. With some 285,000 people in the city proper, it's the second largest city in Denmark, after the capital, Copenhagen. It has a temperate oceanic climate (Koppen Cfb) with mildly cold winters and mild summers. It's definitely a lot milder than my brain tells me Denmark would be, but by no means a warm or let alone subtropical climate - it's at a latitude of 56 N after all. No records in the climate table or in the description on Wikipedia but I'd guesstimate the record high to be about 35 C and the record low about -27 C.
Madison, Wisconsin is the state capital of Wisconsin and where I live currently. Coincidentally, it's of very similar size: 269,000 people, and also the second-largest city in the state. It has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa) with cold winters and mildly warm summers - and is actually cooler than Aarhus on annual average. The climate here has a little bit of everything: hot humid stretches in summer, brutal cold snaps in winter, epic thunderstorms, major snowstorms, you name it.
I would actually go with Madison personally - summer warmth is important, and I'd imagine I get a lot more storms here than great-great-grandpa did growing up. But what would be even better climatically would be to live in Aarhus from November through April, and here May through October.
Aarhus, Denmark is where my great-great-grandfather was born in the 1880s before moving to Wisconsin and starting a family. With some 285,000 people in the city proper, it's the second largest city in Denmark, after the capital, Copenhagen. It has a temperate oceanic climate (Koppen Cfb) with mildly cold winters and mild summers. It's definitely a lot milder than my brain tells me Denmark would be, but by no means a warm or let alone subtropical climate - it's at a latitude of 56 N after all. No records in the climate table or in the description on Wikipedia but I'd guesstimate the record high to be about 35 C and the record low about -27 C.
Madison, Wisconsin is the state capital of Wisconsin and where I live currently. Coincidentally, it's of very similar size: 269,000 people, and also the second-largest city in the state. It has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa) with cold winters and mildly warm summers - and is actually cooler than Aarhus on annual average. The climate here has a little bit of everything: hot humid stretches in summer, brutal cold snaps in winter, epic thunderstorms, major snowstorms, you name it.
I would actually go with Madison personally - summer warmth is important, and I'd imagine I get a lot more storms here than great-great-grandpa did growing up. But what would be even better climatically would be to live in Aarhus from November through April, and here May through October.
