Climate battle: Melbourne, Australia vs Nashville, USA (snow, hot, warm)

[Ethereal]

Both cities are prone to extremes, despite their 'mild-ish' average highs and lows. One is prone to extremely hot temperatures and the other to very cold temps. Also, both are almost on the same latitude. Which do you prefer?

Melbourne, VIC, AUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne#Climate
Nashville, TN, USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashvi...nessee#Climate

[sedimenjerry]

Melbourne although it's a little gloomy.

[FrozenI69]

I’d say Nashville. I think Nashville is prone to extreme cold and heat. It reached 109 F in July a few years back, and that’s with humidity.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Melbourne, better winters

[greysrigging]

Melbourne... ( better the Devil you know..... )

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by greysrigging

Melbourne... ( better the Devil you know..... )

What does that mean? Some sort of an idiom?

Originally Posted by FrozenI69

I’d say Nashville. I think Nashville is prone to extreme cold and heat. It reached 109 F in July a few years back, and that’s with humidity.

It is, but the heat doesn't seem out of place or that extreme for its latitude. Whereas the record cold does (same way the record heat in Melbourne seems over the top).

[Blizzardman]

Nashville. It at least has some potential for snow and wintry weather, those record highs in Melbourne are like Kuwait.

[greysrigging]

Some summers in Melbourne are a special kind of Hell....2009 ( the Black Saturday fires ) was a bad one with three consecutive days above 110f, then the record breaking day of the fires a week later ( 115.5f )
Jan 2014 also had a hot spell....four consecutive days above 107f !.
But in some years the temp fails to reach 100f .
Winters ( by Aussie standards ) are often bleak, gloomy and variable temp wise, with the frequent passage of cold fronts from west to east. And in dry and drought years, and with a blocking High in the Tasman Sea, there can be days on end of clear sunny skies even in mid winter. But the default patterns are cloudy, showery, bleak and gloomy....lol !

[cevven]

I have to say Melbourne because their winters are way warmer but Nashville got hotter summers. Melbourne climate will be much better with Nashville hotter summers and Nashville will be much better with Melbourne milder winters. Nashville ain't no joke in the winter, even if it's not bad as places like Chicago or any of those northern cities.

[jread]

Melbourne. Better winters and much less humid in the summer.