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For the place where you live... or if you don't want to use your place, you can use somewhere with a standard 4-season climate... you are allowed to make any change you want to the averages, but you have to pay for it somewhere else, so that the averages stay the same. So if you want 20 more inches of snow, which equates to about 2 inches of rain, you have to reduce your precipitation by 2 inches in another season. Conversely, if you want 20 inches less snow, you have to make up the 2 inches by having more rain in another season.
If i could make one change to my climate, i would have the spring be 5 degrees warmer. I am thinking back to last spring, when temps were above normal in March, April, and May, how nice and mild it was. By April, it was consistently warm and beautiful. Usually April is mediocre in PA, in my opinion, with more chilly days than nice ones. I would like to have it be consistently warm from April on.
I would make up for the mild spring by having winter be 5 degrees colder. I already hate winter anyway, so what's the big deal if its 5 degrees colder? I'm going to hibernate as much as possible whether its 29 degrees or 34 degrees. Plus, we would probably have more snowstorms if it was colder, so all my friends who like skiing would be happy. I also think I could deal with winter a bit easier if i could look forward to a long, mild spring.
So what about you? How would you change your climate?
40 inches more snow during the winter, 4 inches less rain during the summer. So I guess it'd average out to about 2 inches of rain per month during July and August instead of 4.
For the place where you live... or if you don't want to use your place, you can use somewhere with a standard 4-season climate... you are allowed to make any change you want to the averages, but you have to pay for it somewhere else, so that the averages stay the same. So if you want 20 more inches of snow, which equates to about 2 inches of rain, you have to reduce your precipitation by 2 inches in another season. Conversely, if you want 20 inches less snow, you have to make up the 2 inches by having more rain in another season.
If i could make one change to my climate, i would have the spring be 5 degrees warmer. I am thinking back to last spring, when temps were above normal in March, April, and May, how nice and mild it was. By April, it was consistently warm and beautiful. Usually April is mediocre in PA, in my opinion, with more chilly days than nice ones. I would like to have it be consistently warm from April on.
I would make up for the mild spring by having winter be 5 degrees colder. I already hate winter anyway, so what's the big deal if its 5 degrees colder? I'm going to hibernate as much as possible whether its 29 degrees or 34 degrees. Plus, we would probably have more snowstorms if it was colder, so all my friends who like skiing would be happy. I also think I could deal with winter a bit easier if i could look forward to a long, mild spring.
So what about you? How would you change your climate?
I agree with your idea about the spring vs. winter.
I would lop off some more degrees from winter and add them to spring and fall.
However, I don't want my winters to get too much colder than they already are in absolute terms, so I'll lop off some degrees from the December, January and February's highs (and keep the lows the same) and add them to, and distribute them among spring and fall's highs and lows. If the winter highs are lower, I won't mind as much as it's going to be cold anyways.
In fact if the winter highs are closer to the lows, it'd feel less of a sudden drop when it gets dark (and be used to the daytime being sort of chilly anyways) so it's kind of a gain that way anyways (though still far from an ideal).
Here is the climate I'm using (Toronto, Pearson airport station)
Real December: 0.9/-6.7
Real January: -2.1/-10.5
Real February: -1.1/-9.7
take 5 C off each high, so it becomes:
Dec: -4.1/-6.7
Jan: -7.1/-10.5
Feb: -6.1/-9.7
I gain 15 extra degrees C.
Now add the extra degrees to April, May and October
Real April: 11.5/1, change to 16.5 / 5 (added 5 degrees to high and 4 degrees to the low)
Real May: 18.8/6.9 change to 20.8/ 6.9 (used up 2 degrees to increase the high)
Real October: 13.9/3.9, change to 17.9/3.9 (used 4 degrees to increase the high)
I just made my climate a little more continental perhaps. Still far from my ideal climate but at least I get to squeeze a little more out for fall/spring-like if not "summer-like" months.
Also, would it be cheating if I took some of those winter winds (avoiding the more bitter windchills) and plopped them into the middle of the dog days of July/August to create summer breezes?
I would like my city to have more temp seasonality. Let the summers be reasonably warm (but with comfortably low humidity) and the winters cold enough to have regular snowfall. So this would result in summers with daytime high temps in the 80 - 90 F range and winter high temps in the 30 - 40 F range.
Not that this would be ideal, but it's better than having a cool summer and a chilly (but snow-less) winter.
I wouldn't want winters any colder than they are now, as that would mean snow. So I don't have any spare temps to play with.
I'm happy with the seasonal variation here anyway, so I will live things untouched.
Copy and paste July's averages into the other 11 months.
Avg max: 23.5C
Avg min: 13.9C
Sunshine: 211 hours
Precip: 45mm
Days with precip: 7
For every month of the year. It would probably rate an A on 'rate a climate', instead of the C that most people rated our real climate.
As that is not part of the game, I would take 1-2 degrees off the winter lows, and add them to summer highs. Our winter lows would still be above freezing and 2C on each summer month would give average highs of 23.1C, 25.5C, 25.2C.
Also 1C off the July and August mins, dropping them to 13C. Added to the highs for May (taking the average high to 19C) and September (up to 21C).
I'd also remove 90% of the precipitation between June-Sept and give it all to the Dec-Feb period.
cloudy, cool--Set the thermostat and never allow it to be changed. /gavel
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