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Originally Posted by ReturningWest
I used to live in Leadville, gets old real quick the seasons are....winter...a little spring...then you guessed it...winter again.
I remember playing softball in August and it started snowing.
Yes it seems like average summer highs in like June/July/August/and September in Leadville Colorado is low 70s for highs and low 40s and upper 30s for lows and it can snow any time of the year.
Many places in the higher elevations of the rocky mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Alberta Canada seem to have this subpolar like weather climate and there are other towns in these regions that have Leadville Colorado weather.(Jackson Wyoming, Banff Canada, Vail Colorado etc).
I thought most people that live there love the almost pepertual winter that exists there.
What's the sun data, I wonder? I'm impressed with the reasonable highs and the very low precipitation (which doesn't necessarily match the snow figures) for its altitude, much different to what the same altitude would give here.
I'm assuming it's probably very sunny.
I gave it a B, but I should have given it a C. The temperatures and snowfall are great, but it's dryer and sunnier than I prefer.
It still would cloudier than the surronding areas. Mountains generally attract clouds. I'd imagine the sunshine would high, but much lower than Denver. Maybe 500 hours less?
I found a site in California at the same elevation. About 1° further south. Summers less warm, but winters milder.
F.. looks like a milder version of Banff which is like an F-.. these interior high elevation climates are garbage IMHO.
Have to disagree with that. While Leadville, Banff and even Calgary are a bit too cold, there are better examples of high elevation climates. Places like Denver, Reno, Salt Lake City, Flagstaff and Prescott, Arizona have proper (or even hot) summers and abundant sunshine, and that alone makes them at least a C in my book. Winters are still cold but not that much colder than one would expect at their latitude.
Have to disagree with that. While Leadville, Banff and even Calgary are a bit too cold, there are better examples of high elevation climates. Places like Denver, Reno, Salt Lake City, Flagstaff and Prescott, Arizona have proper (or even hot) summers and abundant sunshine, and that alone makes them at least a C in my book. Winters are still cold but not that much colder than one would expect at their latitude.
True those places are much further south though and that makes a difference. The big problem that I have with many high elevation inland climates has more to do with the changeable nature of the weather rather than just temperature extremes, although this is quite bad too especially for cold.
Like I said on the rate the Calgary thread, in a lot of these places you can get 4 seasons in 1 day which to me is really annoying, like 70F in December followed by snowfall in May. If there is something that I hate even more than a cold climate it's an inconsistent climate.
Oh my! I REALLY want to give this one a great grade, but those summer overnight lows are just..... so low!!! I'ma give it a C-.
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