|
|
Post by Ethereal on Feb 28, 2023 6:57:36 GMT -5
Some cities are in a climate zone that is influenced by other zones, even if they aren't in the so-called transitional zone. For instance, a city like Beirut will be 80% Mediterranean and 20% semi-arid, due to its surrounding influences. For Sydney, we are 70% humid subtropical, 15% oceanic, 10% Mediterranean and 5% semi-arid (due to desert heat on hot summer days). What would the genetic makeup of your city look like?
I made this thread once back on City Data and it got decent amount of responses.
|
|
|
|
Post by Cheeseman on Feb 28, 2023 8:25:52 GMT -5
I'd say Madison is a pretty textbook example of a humid continental climate. Maybe 5% humid subtropical (but only by the Koppen Schmoppen definition) when we have only patchy snow cover in the middle of winter sometimes as we did this year. To break it down further, perhaps 75% temperate and 25% hemiboreal. Ethereal I love your avatar BTW. Is Crummer an actual last name? Edit: I see it is! Nice. |
|
|
|
Post by Donar on Feb 28, 2023 9:44:17 GMT -5
60% CFB, 40% csb. In fact every year since at least 2018 has been csb, but the driest month in the averages just tips it into CFB. Smart ass comment: Köppen is an effective climate classification, the direct opposite a genetic classification. Hence, it doesn't make sense to argue with Köppen zones in this thread. |
|
|
|
Post by Ariete on Feb 28, 2023 10:22:23 GMT -5
Turku is hemiboreal hemicontinental. Meaning it's 50-50 on the temperate-subarctic scale, and 50-50 on the continental-oceanic scale.
|
|
|
|
Post by fairweatherfan on Feb 28, 2023 10:23:10 GMT -5
Irvine, and coastal SoCal in general is 50% desert, 50% Mediterranean.
|
|
|
|
Post by desiccatedi85 on Feb 28, 2023 11:14:32 GMT -5
Atlanta is pretty close to peak subtropicality. I'd say 75% humid subtropical, 15% humid continental (shitty blasts of cold, dry air in winter), and 10% semiarid (long periods of often stable, dry weather during the spring/fall especially).
The coastal SE (like New Orleans or Savannah) would be almost entirely subtropical. This region is the peak of subtropicality. Maybe 5% each to tropical savanna and humid continental.
|
|
|
|
Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 28, 2023 11:30:14 GMT -5
Roughly for PEI: 25% continental 25% oceanic 25% subtropical 12.5% polar 12.5% tropical Yes actual tropical, as we can get direct shots of air straight from Bermuda and Cuba.  It has a bit of everything which is nice and keeps things interesting, even if the actual weather isn't all that interesting occasionally. |
|
|
|
Post by Steelernation on Feb 28, 2023 14:51:18 GMT -5
I’m a bit confused by this thread, is it the sources of things like precipitation/weather patterns or the climate types it shares traits with?
I guess Fort Collins is part semiarid, arctic, subtropical and tropical. Winter snow and cold fronts come from the arctic, the spring wet season from the Gulf of Mexico, and summer a mix of convection and occasional monsoonal moisture from Mexico.
If it’s the other question, it’s Semiarid.
|
|
|
|
Post by massiveshibe on Feb 28, 2023 15:44:48 GMT -5
60% oceanic
30% subtropical
10% continental
My climate falls under Oceanic (Cfb), but it has a slight subtropical precipitation pattern which makes summers rainier than winters. The Continental influence happens during winter when an air mass from Antarctica reaches the region, bringing a lot of snow.
|
|
|
|
Post by firebird1988 on Feb 28, 2023 17:06:17 GMT -5
Phoenix is about 33% Arid
33% Mediterranean
33% Tropical Savannah
|
|
|
|
Post by tommyFL on Feb 28, 2023 17:22:28 GMT -5
Atlanta is pretty close to peak subtropicality. I'd say 75% humid subtropical, 15% humid continental (shitty blasts of cold, dry air in winter), and 10% semiarid (long periods of often stable, dry weather during the spring/fall especially).
The coastal SE (like New Orleans or Savannah) would be almost entirely subtropical. This region is the peak of subtropicality. Maybe 5% each to tropical savanna and humid continental.
Atlanta is just a modified version of the same continental climates found all throughout the eastern US. It doesn't have any feature of a subtropical climate except being warm. No sunny and dry winters and no wet summer. |
|
|
|
Post by greysrigging on Feb 28, 2023 17:35:23 GMT -5
Darwin is simply the AU version of a monsoonal wet-dry climate. Slight influences from a whole continent to our south, meaning that dry season min temps are slightly lower that one would expect from a coastal and near coastal location between 12*-13*S
|
|
|
|
Post by desiccatedi85 on Feb 28, 2023 17:41:30 GMT -5
Atlanta is pretty close to peak subtropicality. I'd say 75% humid subtropical, 15% humid continental (shitty blasts of cold, dry air in winter), and 10% semiarid (long periods of often stable, dry weather during the spring/fall especially).
The coastal SE (like New Orleans or Savannah) would be almost entirely subtropical. This region is the peak of subtropicality. Maybe 5% each to tropical savanna and humid continental.
Atlanta is just a modified version of the same continental climates found all throughout the eastern US. It doesn't have any feature of a subtropical climate except being warm. No sunny and dry winters and no wet summer. Subtropical is a temperature classification only. Somewhere with cool to mild winters, hot summers, and predominant warmth. There is humid subtropical (like Atlanta), monsoonal subtropical like you speak of (SE China), Mediterranean subtropical (like Rome), semiarid subtropical (Los Angeles), and arid subtropical (Phoenix). Humid subtropical is the climate with uniformly spread rainfall, and no significant dry season, that is common throughout the SE US. |
|
|
|
Post by Cadeau on Feb 28, 2023 17:46:37 GMT -5
65% Oceanic
25% Subtropical Humid
10% Mediterranean
|
|
|
|
Post by alex992 on Mar 26, 2023 8:52:03 GMT -5
If we're just talking about air mass origins that affect the region, it's hard to say since we can get literally any type of air mass here. If we're talking about vegetation, I'd say we're about 75% continental, 25% hemiboreal. In terms of pure influence I'd say we're 60% continental, 30% subarctic (strong cold snaps from late fall through early spring), 8% subtropical (occasional very humid and hot air masses in summer), 2% (occasional very dry and extremely hot air masses, especially pre-1990).
|
|
|
|
Post by Ariete on Mar 26, 2023 10:33:06 GMT -5
If we're talking about vegetation, I'd say we're about 75% continental, 25% hemiboreal.
?
I think you mean temperate vegetation. For example, both continental and oceanic climates have species like oak.
|
|
|
|
Post by alex992 on Mar 26, 2023 12:01:50 GMT -5
If we're talking about vegetation, I'd say we're about 75% continental, 25% hemiboreal.
?
I think you mean temperate vegetation. For example, both continental and oceanic climates have species like oak.
Yes. That's what I meant. |
|
|
|
Post by psychedamike24 on Mar 27, 2023 0:05:03 GMT -5
50% oceanic 50% Mediterranean. 100% non-subtropical
|
|
|
|
Post by segfault1361 on Mar 27, 2023 19:50:03 GMT -5
75% Dfa, 20% Cfa, 5% Dfb.
Quite a few of our recent winters, including this one, would have been above the new -3C Koppen "C vs. D" threshold for coldest winter month.
|
|
|
|
Post by CRISPR on Jan 3, 2024 5:52:30 GMT -5
I would say 55% Cfb, 40% Cfa and 5% BSh/BSk (depending on your definition of 'hot' vs 'cold).
Not surprising, as I live in a warm oceanic climate. However, the ENSO is slowly turning us into either Cfa (if La Niña) or BSh/BSk (if El Niño)
|
|
Lived:
Residence:
