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Possibly the worst climate in my country. I wonder what you guys will make of it? Similar to Bergen, Prince Rupert, Kodiak, etc. but with much higher rainfall.
Naturally, I give it a D-. The combination of cool temps and high rainfall is repulsive to me. Very scenic though. Sunshine I would guess is around 1500-1600 hrs.
Possibly the worst climate in my country. I wonder what you guys will make of it? Similar to Bergen, Prince Rupert, Kodiak, etc. but with much higher rainfall.
Naturally, I give it a D-. The combination of cool temps and high rainfall is repulsive to me. Very scenic though. Sunshine I would guess is around 1500-1600 hrs.
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No, it's quite dry compared to the very wettest zones. The Cropp river zone and other parts nearby are phenomenally wet. Cropp "Waterfall" averages 11,450+ mm rainfall per year, and once had 18,400mm in a 12-month span. It's at about 975m ASL. But both Arthurs and Cropp can have dry spells - Cropp has had instances of up to 17 consecutive days without rain.
For a combination of coolness and high rainfall in NZ some of the Fiordland high country at about 1000-1500m would be hard to beat.
There's a drying period during the winter? Weird that summer is the wettest season.
Anyway its an F
As I have mentioned in older threads, the South Island is topographically complex. I can find at least 10 or 11 different flavours of seasonal rainfall variation in the averages. There is quite a large area, including most of the Alps, where late spring or summer is the wettest season and winter the driest (i.e. varities within that include 8-10, 9-11, 10-12, 11-1 or 12-2 as wettest - varies with distance from the main divide and latitude; 6-8 as driest). In dryish Central Otago, 12-2 is over twice as wet as 6-8 or 7-9.
No, it's quite dry compared to the very wettest zones. The Cropp river zone and other parts nearby are phenomenally wet. Cropp "Waterfall" averages 11,450+ mm rainfall per year, and once had 18,400mm in a 12-month span. It's at about 975m ASL. But both Arthurs and Cropp can have dry spells - Cropp has had instances of up to 17 consecutive days without rain.
For a combination of coolness and high rainfall in NZ some of the Fiordland high country at about 1000-1500m would be hard to beat.
Out of curiousity where did you find this info including how many days of dry weather these places have had.
For this climate I give it a D. Too rainy with no dry season and no summer.
Out of curiousity where did you find this info including how many days of dry weather these places have had.
For this climate I give it a D. Too rainy with no dry season and no summer.
The Cropp sites - the data isn't in the main NIWA (climate archive) databases, so there's no simple reference. The daily data was downloaded from a different site (currently not available), and I did my own computations from that. For sites like Arthurs Pass that are in the databases, the website to acquire data is this one:
The Cropp sites - the data isn't in the main NIWA (climate archive) databases, so there's no simple reference. The daily data was downloaded from a different site (currently not available), and I did my own computations from that. For sites like Arthurs Pass that are in the databases, the website to acquire data is this one:
Temperatures are alright. I would prefer warmer summers and colder winters. It's the rain what kills this climate, especially during the summer.
I give it a D.
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