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My rating would be D - loses points for low sunshine levels and the rather wet summer (which would be more forgivable if the rest of the year was dry...but it's not).
That level of snowfall is just ridiculous! So, one January day in every two years doesn't have snowfall?! Winter is too long more so than too cold, but the rest of the year isn't too bad, and the sun is very similar to what we get here. C-.
An interesting climate, and the best that Hokkaido has to offer. I give it a B+, bordering on an A-. The winters aren't cold enough during the daytime, but they are decent temperature-wise. Summers are too warm and humid, more so for the morning lows than the daytime highs. Still, it's nothing too taxing. The record highs and lows look good, and the sunshine looks very good. The precipitation level is a non-factor, and the extreme seasonal snowfall is a major draw. 299 inches is very tempting. Excluding the warmer days I imagine winter here is awesome - big amounts of snow per month and snow almost every day.
It's superior to just about every place in the American lake-effect zones, excluding the places near Lake Superior and Ontario. If only North America could have a snowbelt setup like Hokkaido. If the lakes were bigger and there were mountains downwind of them the snowfall totals would be on the order of 300 inches in spots.
An interesting climate, and the best that Hokkaido has to offer. I give it a B+, bordering on an A-. The winters aren't cold enough during the daytime, but they are decent temperature-wise. Summers are too warm and humid, more so for the morning lows than the daytime highs. Still, it's nothing too taxing. The record highs and lows look good, and the sunshine looks very good. The precipitation level is a non-factor, and the extreme seasonal snowfall is a major draw. 299 inches is very tempting. Excluding the warmer days I imagine winter here is awesome - big amounts of snow per month and snow almost every day.
It's superior to just about every place in the American lake-effect zones, excluding the places near Lake Superior and Ontario. If only North America could have a snowbelt setup like Hokkaido. If the lakes were bigger and there were mountains downwind of them the snowfall totals would be on the order of 300 inches in spots.
It would also help, for your desired scenario, if the NAm polar winter highs were as powerful and stable as the Siberian High, but sadly, that is not the case, as they have to constantly battle it out with warm subtropical air from the Gulf of Mexico. This subtropical air can sometimes penetrate even northern Ontario and Quebec.
It would also help, for your desired scenario, if the NAm polar winter highs were as powerful and stable as the Siberian High, but sadly, that is not the case, as they have to constantly battle it out with warm subtropical air from the Gulf of Mexico. This subtropical air can sometimes penetrate even northern Ontario and Quebec.
That would be a help as well. However, considering that modest elevations in the snowbelt (Tug Hill Plateau, Houghton) receive 200+ inches of snow even now, it wouldn't take all that big of an elevation increase or increase in lake area to crank up some 300-inch totals. You could even get those totals going with only a stronger polar high with no geographical changes.
If there was much larger lake area, significant mountain ranges downwind of the lakes, and stronger polar highs and minimized subtropical influence, I think that 200-300 inches would be standard for the snowbelt cities. It actually wouldn't surprise me to see some isolated 400 inch totals in some of the higher-elevation villages in that scenario.
Of course, it wouldn't be wise to have a polar high that's too strong, because then all the wintertime moisture outside of the snowbelts would be cut off! The snow totals would be suppressed. I outlined one scenario in this topic, which you commented on. Perhaps we should revive that topic....
Summers are a little warm, but not bad. Snowfall is great and sunshine hours are good.
Seconded.
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