Rate the climate: Fictional Twin Cities (records, temperatures, days, frost)

[bchris02]

Minneapolis/St Paul, on an earth with a greater tilt on its axis. Winters are extremely cold but summers are just as brutally hot. Extreme records can occur at any time of the year, be it a nice day during the winter or a frost in July. This is definitely the most continental climate in the United States.

[nei]

A higher tilt should make very cold temperatures less likely in the summers. Poles will have a longer period of long daylight and higher sun so they should heat up and a source of cold will be smaller. And shorter nights = less time for radiational cooling.

Overall, an increased tilt should increase the annual average (northern latitudes get minimal solar radiation in the winter anyway with the short days and low sun angle so weakening winter sunlight isn't going to have as strong of an effect as strengthening summer sunlight) at northern latitudes and cool lower latitudes somewhat.

Past a tilt of 40-50° (can't remember the exact number) the poles will get more sunlight than the tropics!

[deneb78]

F. Looks like Winnipeg with hotter summers.