Post your dream climatic averages (record, city, sunshine, South)

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by B87

I can't believe there is only 1 Csa climate there (mine), I though Neipolis was one as well.

Here's New Surrey, my dream climate. Winters are gloomy and wet but mild, summers are warm to hot, dry but with high dewpoints.

wet? there aren't any wet months only normal and arid...

[B87]

The entire winter is wet. 85mm with 16 rainy days is far wetter than London's wettest month (October, which gets about 69mm and 11 rainy days).

[dhdh]

Originally Posted by darth serious

If Luxania had mountains high enough it could have some really sunny but cool climates up there... maybe ones that even Patricius Maximus would approve of.

For him to "approve" a climate from what I know there must be at least a month with average highs not above freezing - given that my December average high is 24.6°C, and taking a lapse rate of -6.4°C/km, the altitude would have to be at least 3844m asl Now if we want average highs below 0°C for the whole winter (D, J, F) we would need to go up to 4313m pretty high indeed.

At 3844m, August would average about 0.5°C/5.9°C.
At 4313m, -2.5°C/2.9°C.
Pretty cold for a tropical location

I could imagine my climate being quite pleasant at about 830m (the exact altitude so that no month's average low exceeds 20°C) though;
that would be
January 10.9/19.9°C
April 13.4/27°C
June 19/25.4°C
September 20/24.9°C
could be a nice occasional retreat from the heat up there.

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by B87

The entire winter is wet. 85mm with 16 rainy days is far wetter than London's wettest month (October, which gets about 69mm and 11 rainy days).

it's not wet until it get's at least 5in of rain in a month. 3.5in is only slightly wetter than a typical dry season month in Miami.

[Patricius Maximus]

Originally Posted by dhdh

For him to "approve" a climate from what I know there must be at least a month with average highs not above freezing - given that my December average high is 24.6°C, and taking a lapse rate of -6.4°C/km, the altitude would have to be at least 3844m asl Now if we want average highs below 0°C for the whole winter (D, J, F) we would need to go up to 4313m pretty high indeed.

A huge mountain range in the tropics with big cities above 10 000 feet would be very interesting, but I don't think that's what you want in your fictional continent. As for "approval", that depends on what you mean by "approving" - for me to give an A to a climate the averages must (with very few exceptions) be 26/15C or cooler for summer and -4/-12C or colder for at least 2 months in winter, among other criteria such as snowfall and sunshine.

B-grade criteria are more flexible, generally requiring at least one subfreezing month, though that standard can be relaxed to near-freezing (1-2C average highs) if the summer highs average something like 60F. Heavy annual snowfall totals are a help in this category . B-grade is what I characterize as "a decent climate", so that could be construed as "approval".

I could imagine my climate being quite pleasant at about 830m (the exact altitude so that no month's average low exceeds 20°C) though;
that would be
January 10.9/19.9°C
April 13.4/27°C
June 19/25.4°C
September 20/24.9°C
could be a nice occasional retreat from the heat up there.

830 meters is a very ordinary altitude for mountains (maybe a bit too ordinary ), but I wouldn't despise a climate that averaged 20/10C year-round; I'd give a C grade to that. The 830m averages, however, are too hot for me to be at least be comfortable year-round, so my grade there would be harsher than a C.

Assuming a 6.4C per km lapse rate, the averages at a site 2000 meters higher than Luxania would be:

January 12.4/3.4C
April 19.5/5.9C
July 17.2/12.2C
October 18.2/10.3C

That would be comfortable, but with no winter weather it would merit a C grade. 2000 meters isn't exactly an extraordinary altitude, but it would require a big mountain range. The best low-seasonality climate for me would probably exist at 2500 meters, but we're getting into awfully high altitudes here, assuming Luxania is at or near sea level.

[dunno what to put here]

Originally Posted by miamihurricane555

it's not wet until it get's at least 5in of rain in a month. 3.5in is only slightly wetter than a typical dry season month in Miami.

Why do you use the climate in Miami as the baseline for everything, even for climates that are nothing like Miami? You're the only poster here who lives in a tropical monsoon climate.

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

Why do you use the climate in Miami as the baseline for everything, even for climates that are nothing like Miami? You're the only poster here who lives in a tropical monsoon climate.

I don't only use Miami, I use tropical climates in general as my baseline

[Max96]

Perhaps something like this:

I'm not sure about many things in this climate, however.

[bartonfly]

My dream climate

[dhdh]

^^^ sounds like a solid A, what about sunshine hours?