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I'd say Changsha. At 28N that's only three degrees north of Miami.
Changsha is also significantly colder in the winter than Chongqing which is farther west and slightly farther north AND it's also slightly higher in elevation. You would expect somewhere farther west to be colder in winter in China.
In January 2008, Chenzhou had lasting freezing rain and snow for many days and the cables broke due to thick ice.
The residents had to endure freezing temperatures without power.
I'd say Changsha. At 28N that's only three degrees north of Miami.
Changsha is also significantly colder in the winter than Chongqing which is farther west and slightly farther north AND it's also slightly higher in elevation. You would expect somewhere farther west to be colder in winter in China.
Hi, I'm from Changsha. The extreme low temperature record here since 1970 is -12C and 4.6C is the average in January. The frost period is about three month. Besides 2008, the decent snowfall in 2011 piled up to an incredible thickness of 27cm which nearly defeated Urumqi to be the champion of snow cover of 31 major cities in China at a latitude of 28N! There are snowstorms and road ice every year which sometimes cause trouble.
It is a city of the fire and ice. Winter(with daily average <10C) and summer(with daily average>22C) each would last about 120 days. And the spring and fall will take up the other 1/3 of the year.
The summer is long because of its low latitude and winter is long because all cold air from Siberia can be taken up and held by its terrain with mountains which open northward.
Lima is cold, which I think, is due to the cold ocean current from Antarctic...
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Hi, I'm from Changsha. The extreme low temperature record here since 1970 is -12C and 4.6C is the average in January. The frost period is about three month. Besides 2008, the decent snowfall in 2011 piled up to an incredible thickness of 27cm which nearly defeated Urumqi to be the champion of snow cover of 31 major cities in China at a latitude of 28N! There are snowstorms and road ice every year which sometimes cause trouble.
It is a city of the fire and ice. Winter(with daily average <10C) and summer(with daily average>22C) each would last about 120 days. And the spring and fall will take up the other 1/3 of the year.
The summer is long because of its low latitude and winter is long because all cold air from Siberia can be taken up and held by its terrain with mountains which open northward.
Lima is cold, which I think, is due to the cold ocean current from Antarctic...
Purely based on their respective latitudes, it's definitely Lima - for a tropical location it's annual mean of around 19C is quite remarkable - compare that to Hong Kong or Miami.
As for "winters", the fact that Lima has not one but five sub-18C months at such a latitude is remarkable in itself! Miami is much further north and doesn't even qualify as sub-tropical.
This is what the climate of Lima's latitude normally looks like:
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