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I choose New Orleans, Hong Kong is way too cloudy.
X2 for me New Orelans is one of my fav cities on earth
Also, I would go with New Orelans since they can grow many types of palms there, though I don't know about Hong Kong. However, there is one image I will always have of humid subtropical New Orleans after a trip many years ago that I can never shake off:
I'll set the stage:
It's early August...
The time is around 2:00 PM...
The surface temp is 91 F...and the dew point is 77 F...
You hear a crack of thunder in the distance...
The palm fronds move faster in the breeze...
...all of a sudden - BAM - the monther of all tropical rainstorms hits and your soaked...but you don't feel cold becasue its so darn hot (lol).
X2 for me New Orelans is one of my fav cities on earth
Also, I would go with New Orelans since they can grow many types of palms there, though I don't know about Hong Kong. However, there is one image I will always have of humid subtropical New Orleans after a trip many years ago that I can never shake off:
I'll set the stage:
It's early August...
The time is around 2:00 PM...
The surface temp is 91 F...and the dew point is 77 F...
You hear a crack of thunder in the distance...
The palm fronds move faster in the breeze...
...all of a sudden - BAM - the monther of all tropical rainstorms hits and your soaked...but you don't feel cold becasue its so darn hot (lol).
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My kind of town!
Hong Kong is in hardiness zone 11 whereas New Orleans is in zone 9b. Hong Kong can grow coconuts whereas New Orleans can't. Hong Kong gets just as much if not more warm torrential downpours in the wet season than New Orleans gets. It comes down like a sheet of water.
I choose Hong Kong without question. I prefer some kind of variation in precipitation patterns and New Orleans just doesn't provide that.
Also, the cold snaps would get annoying. If I were to live in a climate with summers as hot as they are in New Orleans, I would die of cold in the winter. It might as well be warm all the time so...
Hong Kong is in hardiness zone 11 whereas New Orleans is in zone 9b. Hong Kong can grow coconuts whereas New Orleans can't. Hong Kong gets just as much if not more warm torrential downpours in the wet season than New Orleans gets. It comes down like a sheet of water.
To be fair to New Orleans, Hong Kong is over 500 miles closer to the equator. I'm sure a city 550 miles north of HK is not in zone 11. New Orleans does much better in the way of winter averages compared to Shanghai.
I don't like the cold snaps in NO either, but it still has decent winter averages. Also it is sunnier, and the gloom of HK would get old real fast. I'd go with NO as I don't think the cold snaps last that long like in the interior south.
New Orleans, as it's sunnier and has a good amount of rain days.
Hong Kong seems cloudy and gloomier and more humid.
On a related note, why does New Orleans' rainfall on average dip in October (from those stats at least) as the driest month of the year?
As with many places in the eastern half of the US, October is relatively dry, sunny, and stable. The humidity is mostly gone, so there's less of a chance for thunderstorms, unless a strong cold front sweeps through of course.
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New Orelans is one of my fav cities on earth
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