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It's nice that the short winter sees decent snowfall, but it's too warm the rest of the year, and records show that this climate is too stable. Add the annoying high sunshine into the equation, and I can't give New Luxania too good of a grade.
Summer is too hot and sunny while January is too cold and snowy.
But I can't rate a climate lower than B- with such a great cold-rain-avoiding precipitation pattern.
That was exactly my idea
I'd be interested in seeing how a poster such as Patricius Maximus rates it, as there's a "real" winter with snow yet a hot summer and abundant sunshine.
C+, too warm in summer and too sunny. Temperatures are roughly similar to Chicago but more stable and less lag. Winters would get a lot of snow, maybe 250cm depending on how wet the snow is. March is warm enough that it should all melt off by the end of the month, but snow cover would be nearly guaranteed for a few months.
Take off 5C from every month and I'd give it an A.
This is slightly unrealistic climate which represents my ideal climate if I were forced to live in a 4-season climate (coldest month average <-3°C) while staying relatively realistic (of course I could have made it -3°C in a month, and tropical the rest of the year, but that would have been ludicrous).
The most plausible setting for that climate is a continental location at a relatively low latitude, which makes it temporarily influenced by two strong but brief seasonal wind patterns.
Every month of the year gets a generous amount of sunshine.
Winter (late November to February) is cold, but not brutally so, with a low standard deviation of temperatures, preventing both strong thaws and frigid temperatures.
It is quite snowy* with periods of heavy snowfall while the rest of the time is sunny with crisp blue skies.
Spring sees a very quick thaw and warm-up, and starts with mild days with nights that remain cold or coolish. It is very dry at the beginning, but starts to get wetter (and downright warm) towards May and June, with a few brief and intense showers.
The height of summer (late June to mid-August) is almost tropical feeling, with hot days, warm, sticky nights and frequent thunderstorms.
Late summer and early fall (late August to late September) is warm and drier with a more "classic" continental summer feeling.
It gets cooler and drier in autumn (October to mid-November) with nights cooling off quickly. There are a few warm Indian autumn days in October, skewing the average high up to 17°C. It starts snowing by late November.
As much as I vastly prefer warmth over cold, the very high amounts of sunshine year-round, quick spring warm ups and hot summers make this climate as desirable as a 4-season climate can be to me.
Therefore I rate it a solid C+.
*Being usually uninterested in cold climates, I am completely clueless as to what would make a month "quite snowy" in terms of precipitation totals, nor do I know how to convert precipitation mm/inches to snow cm/inches. Anyone more knowledgeable than me on that subject is welcome to help and I'll adjust it.
How well does this city handle snowfall? Do they ever have extra vacation days when it snows and how about the infrastructure of New Luxing whatever? Does it snow enough they have lots of plows? Does thunderstorms in the summer wreck havoc with power lines for fun power outages?
The reason I call it extra vacation days is because from reading old news archives I found out yes indeed snow did cause schools to close in the old days but they did not hype it out and it would only be that day unless it was really deep. They just called it an extra vacation day sometimes multiple days happened but were never required to make it up which only burdens teachers. Schools always adjusted the classroom instruction and nobody suffered.
B. It's very close to ideal temperature-wise. My biggest qualm is the sunshine. I'd like more clouds outside summer. Also, I could do without the dry seasons in early spring and mid-fall. And these records are too tame. Still quite good.
New Amherst is close to my ideal four season climate, though maybe I'd modify the summers a bit, but the goal was to only modify half the year when I made it.
Winters are nice. SUmmers are too hot. Too sunny year round
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