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I think it's time for a new GTC thread - the other one is getting too long and confusing
I'll start with a hard one you can simply guess the region - the following data is not from a large city at all, but is representative of the climate of a whole region. I'm curious about your attempts as they will show me which parts of the world have a climate similar to this one :
What I find interesting here is the erratic sunshine levels, though (obviously) located in a temperate area and despite a unsurprising maximum in July (and minimum in December) - but May cloudier than January, August cloudier but much drier than September ?
This is real? Certainly doesn't look it with August being much drier and duller than July/September. May looks really out of place too. A high-altitude place in southern/south-eastern France perhaps?
The wet fall makes me think somewhere in Europe, but the strange sunshine levels make me think there might be a typo. I can imagine it'd be reasonable for place to have the same sunshine % in summer as winter, but I'd expect the sunshine hours to increase by a lot if only because of the longer daylight hours. Unless the summer is much wetter.
May has more rainy days than January so perhaps that's why it has less sun. But August has less rainy days than September but still has less sunshine despite the much longer daylight hours.
I'd say the temps/precip definitely put it in ( likely western) Europe, but the sunshine distribution just looks wrong. Nowhere which gets 340 sun hours in July would also get such cool summers unless it was at elevation, but surely then there would be more rain days and less sun hours? Also, four wet days in January come up with 82mm of rain with those low temperatures?!
This is real? Certainly doesn't look it with August being much drier and duller than July/September. May looks really out of place too. A high-altitude place in southern/south-eastern France perhaps?
Impressive you got it. The place is the commune of Andon in southeastern France, not far from the Mediterranean but in the Alps at around 1200m above sea level.
The data is definitely real but it comes from an old book (1951) - so their ways of recording weather observations was perhaps not that accurate - especially given that the record period dates back to the 1900's and is comparatively short : 25 years for the temps and if I recall, 10 years only for the sunshine totals - this might explain the discrepancy.
(I doubled checked and there is no typo) - I entered the data myself on wikipedia on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon,_Alpes-Maritimes
My interest in the climate of this place arises from the fact that this is where I spent a significant part of my childhood, so as I became a weather geek I retrospectively became curious about its climate statistics.
Weather facts I recall from the years I spent there :
-Cool nights even in summer
-The very sunny July weather, not less sunny than Nice, so this is surely accurate;
-Very frequent and frustrating dry thunderstorms in summer : this might explain the low precip but higher cloudiness in August
I am a little surprised by the average highs in summer though, I'd have imagined them closer to 24-25°C from memory.
You've got some very interesting microclimates there in southern France with the proximity to the Atlantic/Mediterranean and the mountain areas. Interesting how your place can be 1200m asl and still have good sunshine because anywhere at 1200m asl here most certainly would not! I was wondering though if the French meteorology office publishes a map of sunshine hours similar to what we have here - I'm interested in comparing the southern coast of England and the northern coast of France to see how the Channel has an impact:
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you can simply guess the region - the following data is not from a large city at all, but is representative of the climate of a whole region. I'm curious about your attempts as they will show me which parts of the world have a climate similar to this one :
you got it. The place is the commune of Andon in southeastern France, not far from the Mediterranean but in the Alps at around 1200m above sea level.
