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Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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They both have mediterranean climate with some continental features, which are stronger in Soria, while Guarda has less continental features due to Atlantic Ocean is not too far away.
They both have warm, sunny and dry summers. However, as I've said before, daily afternoon summers thunderstorms are frequently in Soria between may and september.
In central higlands areas of Spain we usually say "nine months of winter, three months of hell", which is also valid for some areas of eastern inland Portugal, such as Guarda.
Autumn and early winter in Guarda is marked by higher amounts of rainfall. In fact is the main rainy season there in Guarda, while Soria has two rainy seasons, just in autumn and spring. Thus, spring is slightly rainy than autumn in Soria.
Looks like Guarda also has a secondary rainy season in spring, but not as rainy as it used to be in Soria.
Soria also have more amounts of radiation fog days during calm and clear weather in winter season, cause it's on the Duero valley. It also is part of a vast high plateau enclosed by mountains, which it works well to these winter radiation fog.
Winter tends to be a little bit milder in Guarda, but sometimes it gets really cold.
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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If you start moving on Iberian peninsula for instance in Lisbon, from southwest to northeast, as you progress northeast, autumn main rainy season slowly turning into two rainy tie seasons, spring and autumn in such places like Madrid, then turning in a slightly spring main rainy season in such places like Zaragoza or Lleida.
However, in eastern Mediterranean coast of Iberian peninsula autumn is the main rainy season again, so spring main rainy season appears within inland areas of central and northeastern Iberian peninsula.
The reason there are a slightly dry season in winter at central and eastern areas of Iberian peninsula is that sometimes it works like a mini-continent, just like Greenland works to fix high pressure, but to a lesser extent. In other words, it tend to be a bit anticiclonic during winter due to Iberian peninsula's geographical features.
It should be pointed out that Iberian winter weather is much more milder than Greenland ones.
Last edited by overdrive1979; 08-01-2013 at 03:27 PM..
Here is a map that shows average yearly number of thunderstorm in Iberian peninsula and immediate surroundings:
nice map, I had never seen such information, we don't have much thunderstorms around here, that's a fact, maybe 5,6 events per year.
Guarda is in the green area while Soria is in the pink one, it matches what you said earlier.
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