Rate the Climate: Puerto Montt (temperature, places, most, sunshine)
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I disagree with the OP saying this is the england of the SH as I don't think anywhere in the UK is that wet? Looks a lot like the West Coast of NZ's South Island, except even cooler and cloudier: Hokitika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorry, have to give it a D-. Or an E on the six-grade system on this poll.
I disagree with the OP saying this is the england of the SH as I don't think anywhere in the UK is that wet? Looks a lot like the West Coast of NZ's South Island, except even cooler and cloudier: Hokitika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorry, have to give it a D-. Or an E on the six-grade system on this poll.
Parts of the Lake District gets over 2,000mm of rain a year. There just aren't any large towns in those places. This place is a close analogue as you will find for somewhere in the UK with regards to temperatures. There is a place further south called Cochrane which is a good analogue of Buxton, Derbyshire with an identical mean annual temperature and similar winter and summer temperatures but 20 inches less rain.
F. Very crap summers for its latitude, no average highs above 20C or average lows above 10C. It makes places like Hobart, Wellington and Christchurch look good.
Those are high mountains though. I'm sure there are parts of the California high dessert mountains that get as much rain.
There are parts of the uk that only get 500mm of rain.
The point being though that this place and other surrounding towns, many of which are somewhat dryer, are good examples of the same Cfb climate of the UK and the best Southern Hemisphere analogue of such... beyond any reasonable doubt. I mean nowhere in Australia or further North in South America is exactly a better likeness is it? LOL. Even NZ isn't because virtually all of it is much sunnier than most of the UK and has much milder winters.
As an aside to this, Hokitika, given its latitude and longterm average rainfall of around 2800mm, is comparatively sunny with a 30-year average (and similar longterm average) of about 1890 hours.
Horrible! What a depressing climate! I'm amazed it has as many as 1500+ hours of sunshine. As cloudy and foggy as the southern coast of Chile is, anything over 1100 is a gift.
The 222 figure for rainy days is based on a 0.1 mm standard which is equivalent to about 0.01 inches for us heathens. If P.M. went with that as the lower limit for measurable rainfall I would be willing to bet it gets up to 240 or 250 days of precip per year.
According to this web site Puerto Montt has hit temperatures as high as 94 (34.5) degrees so warmth does happen on occassion but I'm sure it's pretty rare:
The point being though that this place and other surrounding towns, many of which are somewhat dryer, are good examples of the same Cfb climate of the UK and the best Southern Hemisphere analogue of such... beyond any reasonable doubt. I mean nowhere in Australia or further North in South America is exactly a better likeness is it? LOL. Even NZ isn't because virtually all of it is much sunnier than most of the UK and has much milder winters.
I think the southern part of the South Island could be a close match. Closer temps than Puerto Montt, drier and sunshine only in the 1680-2000 hour range. More snow as well.
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