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Wikipedia has the climate as Humid Continental with a hot summer. Then someone I know says it has a desert climate. Yet, it seems some think it is semi-arid, and one other person even said Mediterranean. How would you classify this climate?
It's definitely continental. I'd like to call it cool semi-arid since the nature around it fits well and summers are definitely warm enough to have such an impact. Anyway, somehow it's still not even borderline semi-arid using Köppen and too warm in winter to be humid continental. Therefore, using the intended -3°C line the place is humid subtropical (!) of all things and that's just wrong. It's a major weak spot of Köppen, climates like these.
Cool semi-arid (Csa) in my system. Its odd precipitation pattern is a threat, but its too evenly distributed to be Med and two out of three wettest months are in the warm season, along with being too warm year round for a temperate continental label. So, clearly belongs to the semi-arid family.
Probably semi-arid speaking from some vague memory of visiting there. The surrounding countryside can look like this:
The Great Salt Lake:
Here is a photo taken from the state capital building. There are some trees here, but they probably rely on irrigation. Still less trees compared to wetter climates.
Most certainly continental. Anything else is Köppen codswallop; Köppen was a drunken bastard when he established these much-praised, tremendously absurd "thresholds" of his.
According to Köppen, for instance, Braemar is textbook maritime (Cfb) rather than subpolar maritime (Cfc)—when in reality, it should be the other way round. No fellow in his right mind would label Braemar, Kiandra and the like as "oceanic" instead of their real classifications (i.e. subpolar/subalpine).
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