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Post by Beercules on Mar 23, 2024 18:36:26 GMT -5
Steelernation Because, if you look at climates around the actual Mediterranean, they all have hot summers and mild winters. Avg summer highs are often 30C or higher and lows above 20C more often than not. Winters are commonly snowless, with avg highs well above 10C. Many of them are more like 15C+. Therefore, lumping somewhere like Seattle with the same descripter as these climates just doesn't work for me. It's misleading. I agree with dry summer oceanic, that is a far better descripter of Seattle's climate with no misleading connotations.
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Post by Steelernation on Mar 23, 2024 23:26:53 GMT -5
Steelernation Because, if you look at climates around the actual Mediterranean, they all have hot summers and mild winters. Avg summer highs are often 30C or higher and lows above 20C more often than not. Winters are commonly snowless, with avg highs well above 10C. Many of them are more like 15C+. Therefore, lumping somewhere like Seattle with the same descripter as these climates just doesn't work for me. It's misleading. I agree with dry summer oceanic, that is a far better descripter of Seattle's climate with no misleading connotations. Then Mediterranean is stupid and shouldn’t be a climate classification at all if it only refers to a very specific climate. No other zone is named after a region, like Cwa isn’t a Chinese climate. |
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Post by desiccatedi85 on Mar 24, 2024 8:08:10 GMT -5
Albany wins it for being warmer, and yes of course they're both Mediterranean with those glorious rainfall patterns. Specifically, they are mild-summer, temperate Mediterranean (especially Seattle), whereas somewhere like Antalya is hot-summer, subtropical Mediterranean.
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Post by Ethereal on Mar 26, 2024 17:45:45 GMT -5
Albany is a mild Med climate. Seattle is much more oceanic IMO.
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Post by Beercules on Mar 26, 2024 17:54:23 GMT -5
Albany is a mild Med climate. Seattle is much more oceanic IMO. They are both oceanic. |
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Post by Ethereal on Mar 26, 2024 18:06:50 GMT -5
Albany is a mild Med climate. Seattle is much more oceanic IMO. They are both oceanic. Perhaps. I think it's the fact that Seattle is overall wetter and its rain seems to be more evenly distributed compared to Albany's. The bottom line is, Seattle's winters and Albany's summers are too cool for standard Mediterranean. But I'll still give the edge to Albany for being more Med (merely for its warmer winters). Also, sometimes it snows in Seattle. |
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Post by greysrigging on Mar 26, 2024 18:18:49 GMT -5
Victorian cities to the west and east of Melbourne. Look at the climate descriptions.....   |
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Post by Beercules on Mar 26, 2024 19:00:47 GMT -5
Albany wins it for being warmer, and yes of course they're both Mediterranean with those glorious rainfall patterns. Specifically, they are mild-summer, temperate Mediterranean (especially Seattle), whereas somewhere like Antalya is hot-summer, subtropical Mediterranean. Except, actual Mediterranean climates are about 10C warmer year round than these cold oceanic imposters.  |
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Post by Beercules on Mar 26, 2024 19:01:42 GMT -5
Victorian cities to the west and east of Melbourne. Look at the climate descriptions..... Looked at the climate descriptions, same sight as the aftermath in my toilette after a heavy night on the KFC and stout after another cold Warnambool 10C mediterranean crummer night. |
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Post by Beercules on Mar 26, 2024 19:04:17 GMT -5
Perhaps. I think it's the fact that Seattle is overall wetter and its rain seems to be more evenly distributed compared to Albany's. The bottom line is, Seattle's winters and Albany's summers are too cool for standard Mediterranean. But I'll still give the edge to Albany for being more Med (merely for its warmer winters). Also, sometimes it snows in Seattle. Voice of reason. Rare on this foreskinum, and out in the wild in general. |
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Post by Ethereal on Mar 26, 2024 21:46:03 GMT -5
Further, Albany can be prone to extreme heat with the 40C+ record highs registered in 4 months, and Seattle seems to rarely reach 40C. So that's why I give Albz the 'Med edge' here. Oh, 8C highs and the odd snow just ruins the med vibe. Sorry Seattle.
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