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Post by boombo on Nov 23, 2017 7:28:27 GMT -5
The thread for any characteristics some climates have that the average non-local or non-weather expert might think are a bit odd.
I'll start:
In parts of central Europe (e.g. Munich), the sunniest month (July) is also the wettest.
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Post by Babu on Nov 23, 2017 7:33:52 GMT -5
Northern Sweden and Svalbard have pretty high diurnal ranges in winter even anove the arctic where the sun doesn't even shine.
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Post by boombo on Nov 23, 2017 7:43:09 GMT -5
And even in high-latitude maritime places where the sun does rise every day like this example in the Shetlands, the temperature rises and falls in the winter regardless of whether the sun's above the horizon or not, it's almost all about the movement of air currents.  |
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Post by Beercules on Nov 23, 2017 7:53:49 GMT -5
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Post by Lommaren on Nov 23, 2017 15:02:26 GMT -5
The thread for any characteristics some climates have that the average non-local or non-weather expert might think are a bit odd. I'll start: In parts of central Europe (e.g. Munich), the sunniest month (July) is also the wettest. Aren't those climates a bit either or though? Either they're damp and cloudy while in other years sunny and dry? That's certainly the case with summers here, which kind of makes July being so sunny and wet not always make sense  |
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Post by Donar on Nov 23, 2017 16:41:42 GMT -5
Aren't those climates a bit either or though? Either they're damp and cloudy while in other years sunny and dry? That's certainly the case with summers here, which kind of makes July being so sunny and wet not always make sense This August in Munich had 140 mm of rain and 232 sunshine hours, so it can be wet and quite sunny at the same time. _______ July is the month with the coldest record high in Eureka, Ca. |
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Post by Lommaren on Nov 23, 2017 16:52:58 GMT -5
_______ July is the month with the coldest record high in Eureka, Ca. Not sure if you saw my post but here it is  cdweather.boards.net/post/11364/threadIn 1981, Eureka set its warmest ever night on 18 January (!) This is in California, not in Chile! The warmest ever night seaside at 40°N was... eh... 17.2°C  January that year also equalled July's avg high and the warmest daytime max of 23.9°C was also set around that night record temp in... January! BONKERS! |
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Post by Donar on Nov 24, 2017 13:55:06 GMT -5
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Post by Giorbanguly on Nov 24, 2017 15:17:56 GMT -5
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Post by Lommaren on Nov 24, 2017 15:27:36 GMT -5
Now look at it being on the coastline It has nothing on Spassk-Dalny after all! |
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Post by Giorbanguly on Nov 24, 2017 15:36:15 GMT -5
Spassk-Dalniy at least gets summers that are not a complete disaster, Naxodka is a #ClimateFail year round |
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Post by Lommaren on Nov 27, 2017 18:39:42 GMT -5
Spassk-Dalniy at least gets summers that are not a complete disaster, Naxodka is a #ClimateFail year round This is surely NY Ruski's fav Russian climate tho 50°N too man, that's narrowly north of Vancouver and south of London yet it looks like this!  |
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Post by sari on Nov 27, 2017 21:05:01 GMT -5
Coastal California has insane summer record lows! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California#Climate In the center of the continent in Kansas City we've never dropped below 10C in July. Meanwhile, coastal towns with ridiculous moderation have reached 2C! Edit: Fort Bragg has had a freeze in August. I remember finding some small obscure climate that has had freezes in every (or almost every) month, but I can't seem to find it. |
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Post by knot on Nov 28, 2017 5:29:42 GMT -5
In the center of the continent in Kansas City we've never dropped below 10C in July. Meanwhile, coastal towns with ridiculous moderation have reached 2C! Absolute fucken failure of a climate! So far inland – at the centre of the bloody continent – yet your midsummer diurnal range is only 20.2°-31.3° C.  Yanks always seem to have the shittiest climates. Fuck me dead. |
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Post by alex992 on Nov 28, 2017 13:10:59 GMT -5
In the center of the continent in Kansas City we've never dropped below 10C in July. Meanwhile, coastal towns with ridiculous moderation have reached 2C! Absolute fucken failure of a climate! So far inland – at the centre of the bloody continent – yet your midsummer diurnal range is only 20.2°-31.3° C. Yanks always seem to have the shittiest climates. Fuck me dead. Lol, it actually makes sense considering the Gulf of Mexico really isn't THAT far from Kansas City and has a huge influence on it during the summer. If I were to guess, between the months of June and August, the prevailing airflow for KC is out of the south (straight out of the Gulf of Mexico). Also the weak summer jet stream ensures that big negative anomalies don't occur very often. I agree KC is too warm of a climate though. A big step up from Miami, but the winters are unreliable. It could very well be either 24 C in December or -25 C. |
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Post by Giorbanguly on Dec 5, 2017 22:28:00 GMT -5
In terms of average highs, Binghamton is closer to Saguenay in central Quebec (+7.7F) than it is to LGA in Queens (-8.4F). It is also about equidistant between LaGuardia and Vyborg in northern Russia in terms of average highs.
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Post by grega94 on Dec 6, 2017 11:39:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 12:18:28 GMT -5
In the center of the continent in Kansas City we've never dropped below 10C in July. Meanwhile, coastal towns with ridiculous moderation have reached 2C! Absolute fucken failure of a climate! So far inland – at the centre of the bloody continent – yet your midsummer diurnal range is only 20.2°-31.3° C. Yanks always seem to have the shittiest climates. Fuck me dead. It's in the middle of the USA which is in the southern half of the continent The geographical centre of North America is in North Dakota lol. |
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Post by alex992 on Dec 6, 2017 13:14:40 GMT -5
^ Another good point, KC is definitely wayyyyy closer to the Gulf of Mexico (about 600 miles away) than to the Arctic Ocean (about 2200 miles away) hell even a lot closer to the Gulf than to the Hudson Bay. The Gulf is around 29-30 N and the Arctic Ocean is around 69-70 N, so yeah somewhere in the 48-50 N range would be the center. How about this....a climate at 50 N that has winters a good deal colder than Barrow, AK at 71 N  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulaangom#ClimateNormally somewhere continental having colder winters than somewhere 20+ latitude more north isn't THAT unusual, but Barrow is hardly mild for it's latitude. |
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Post by nei on Dec 11, 2017 11:45:23 GMT -5
The thread for any characteristics some climates have that the average non-local or non-weather expert might think are a bit odd. I'll start: In parts of central Europe (e.g. Munich), the sunniest month (July) is also the wettest. I think sunnier month = wetter is common in continental climates with lots of convective rain but little oceanic rain. [my climate counts as relatively oceanic by this measurement even if it's temperatures don't]. Midwest stations have their sunniest month among the sunniest, though not the sunniest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines,_Iowa#Climate Spring has more frontal storms, leading to slightly slightly more rain in late spring but more cloud. No match for Oklahoma City; but there's a big drop in rain from June to July with only a small sunshine change en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City#Climate |
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January that year also equalled July's avg high and the warmest daytime max of 23.9°C was also set around that night record temp in... January!
