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In my classifications, Miami is a borderline tropical climate, right on the very boundary between tropical and subtropical though. Atlanta is warm temperate, and Montreal is continental. Atlanta has winters still too cold to be called subtropical for my liking. Its winters are halfway between Miami and Montreal, and its summers are slightly closer to Miami than Montreal, but not by much..
Surely more like Miami's, (sans the thunderstorm relief in summer ). Winters are much colder than Miami, but nothing like the biting cold and heavy snow Montreal experiences. Atlanta is an ideal subtropical climate.
The summer heat is much more oppressive and long lasting, even compared to NJ. Its most definitely much hotter than Montreal
I'd say Atlanta is right in between Miami and Boston.
Last edited by Adi from the Brunswicks; 11-05-2014 at 11:27 AM..
Miami winter is practically spring weather in Atlanta. Winters in ATL are colder than most people expect. Sure, we don't get the brutal snow/ice that the NE or Midwest gets hammered with, but no one is out in their shorts and t-shirts in January.
I'd say that for about six to eight months of the year, Atlanta is right there with Miami in terms heat and humidity. During the winter, it might get the occasional paralyzing one inch of snow and the more serious ice storm...but I don't think that would be a fair comparison to Montreal in that way.
. Its winters are halfway between Miami and Montreal, and its summers are slightly closer to Miami than Montreal, but not by much..
Atlanta's winters are halfway between Miami and Chicago not Montreal. Last winter which was third coldest on record would have been a normal winter in Montreal
Don't you people have maps? Know geography? North/South, etc?
Then why was NJ warmer than Atlanta this weekend. We saw flurries here after 65 F highs, FYI . Reason was thanks to the ULL sinking into Western North Carolina.
Montreal averages 89 inches of snow a year, Atlanta like 7 inches. Miami gets no snow. I'd say 7 is closer to 0 than 89.
Atlanta is of the humid subtropical climate, Miami is tropical monsoon climate. Montreal is humid continental, transitioning to humid warm summer continental (aka not close to humid subtropical). The humidity of Montreal can't compare to the humidity of Atlanta. Atlanta is much more humid than Montreal, and is closer to Miami since the mugginess of the summers of the South is unbearable whereas Canadian summers are much more bearable with a higher comfort index. Yes Montreal is humid but it's NOT subtropical.
ATL is definitely more like Miami than Montreal, down to the fact that when Atlanta people visit the Midwest, they complain about how cold and snowy it is, same to Miami folk.
OP, get your head checked.
You have nailed it. Plus, "Hotlanta" is called for a reason.
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). Winters are much colder than Miami, but nothing like the biting cold and heavy snow Montreal experiences. Atlanta is an ideal subtropical climate.
and the more serious ice storm...but I don't think that would be a fair comparison to Montreal in that way.
. Reason was thanks to the ULL sinking into Western North Carolina.
Nailed it!
