Europe's climate if it was shifted 15 degrees south (temperature, rainfall, days)

[kronan123]

the baltic sea at 39N-50N would probably hold many nice summer resorts.

[mar89]

Rimini at 29°N would have a nice dry tropical climate with some oceanic and desertic influences... or maybe a tropical climate like southern Florida, with hurricanes developing in the Mediterranean? I'm not sure.

[Siberian High]

It would suck.

[irlinit]

From a cold perspective, yes, but I think it would be better. Unless you are in central Europe

[Wario Toad 32]

I wonder if Europe was shifted 15°N

[Jakobsli]

No thanks, my climate is cold enough, don't want a climate like Longyearbyen here.

[ABrandNewWorld]

London and Paris would both become "subtropical paradises".

[forgotten username]

No winter anymore for sure.

As for the desert, i'm not sure, supposing the landmass stays the same and Africa being shifted southward as well... here it would be on the warmer end of the subtropical range but with super mild winters, say, something like a 12c average in January, yet I don't think the summers would be much warmer. It would probably be something like coastal Egypt but without the desert influence, probably more humid overall and with less extremes.

[Mhc1985]

I guess that the Mediterranean Sea as a large body of water gives some misleading hints on how the climate might work in such a case. Even though there would be a lot o evaporation, the subtropical high would inhibit any convection in Southern Europe throughout the year, so the high humidity would be stuck near the surface, as it happens in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.

The southern half of Europe would become terribly hot, with summer averages above 30ºC almost everywhere; the coastal areas would be scary, with often extremely high dew points. All the Mediterranean Sea (save for areas close to Gibraltar) would experience SST over 30ºC in summer. Precipitation would be reduced to few rain events in winter.

[jackierudetsky]

How about just five degrees?