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I don't think the Southern Hemisphere has any true humid continental climates that rival the ones in the U.S. What Southern Hemisphere location (it doesn't have to be a proper town; just has to have a weather station) has the climate closest to what most people think of a classic four equal seasons climate (let's use Chicago as an example) with warm, humid summers with thunderstorms and cold, snowy winters and solid springs and autumns?
I don't think any place in the Southern Hemisphere will match a place like Chicago in both summer and winter. You can find places that have close to Chicago winters but with much cooler summers and places that have close to Chicago summers but mild winters but not both. Not enough landmass at the mid latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere to generate a climate like that. And in my opinion, it's what makes the Southern Hemisphere superior to the Northern Hemisphere for me in terms of overall climate.
Summers in Balmaceda isnt Hot,just warm to cool,but i doesnt see any other town in Southern Hemisphere that get temperatures like that.
NZ has towns the size of Balmaceda, which have colder record minimums, colder average minimums and hotter summers, while being at a lower altitude than Balmaceda
Here are the stats for Ophir, which is also at 45'S, but is only at 300m compared to Balmaceda at 530m
While I wouldn't call Ophir Continental, I think it better qualifies than Balmaceda, due to it's greater range. What little snow it gets can lie for a while, and it can get some decent summer thunderstorms. It also has a summer rainfall peak. It's extreme temperature range is 37C TO -22C, which is 13C greater than Balmaceda's extreme range.
The range between Winter and Summer isn't that high, they are barely continental if they even fit the bill. What about Western Sydney suburbs? I heard they can get pretty warm over summer and can have freezing lows in winter, diurnal range seems high as well
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NZ has towns the size of Balmaceda, which have colder record minimums, colder average minimums and hotter summers, while being at a lower altitude than Balmaceda
Here are the stats for Ophir, which is also at 45'S, but is only at 300m compared to Balmaceda at 530m
While I wouldn't call Ophir Continental, I think it better qualifies than Balmaceda, due to it's greater range. What little snow it gets can lie for a while, and it can get some decent summer thunderstorms. It also has a summer rainfall peak. It's extreme temperature range is 37C TO -23C, which is 13C greater than Balmaceda's extreme range.
The Record Low temperature for Balmaceda is -28C,Wikipedia is wrong.
Balmaceda is at 46S,dont have a lot of diference.
I was looking at map and see that Balmaceda is more open to Maritime air(Because this the very cool Summer).
Ophir even could have lower winter or summer average,but when we talk about extreme cold,Balmaceda wins,i think its due to South America Reach more South.
Look at climate data that i posted for Balmaceda,you will look,the temperatures with highs well below freezing some times in winter.
Also its because the area From 40S to 55S have An Deciduous Forest,while New Zealand does Not.
NZ has towns the size of Balmaceda, which have colder record minimums, colder average minimums and hotter summers, while being at a lower altitude than Balmaceda
Wiki data for Balmaceda records are terrible... I don't know who could have posted such nonsense.
Its record lowest is -28.3ºC. In more recent years, it reached -27.7ºC:
Anyway, I don't think Balmaceda is what the OP is looking for, as its summers are too cool.
Then again, there is no place in the Southern Hemisphere out of Antarctica where the annual average temperature range gets to 20ºC, so there is no place where summers are hot and winters are freezing.
San Juan (Argentina) has a range of 19ºC, but it goes from aproximately 27ºC in January to 8ºC in July.
A place which can experience a good amount of heat in summer with some thunderstorms and get reliable snowfalls in winter is Malargüe (Argentina), although its annual range is only about 16ºC, and it may be considered a mild version of Denver rather than a mild version of Chicago.
I guess some nearby areas in Mendoza province such as San Carlos/Valle de Uco get more consistent thunderstorms (and massive hailstorms) in summer and a couple of winter snowfalls, with averages around 22ºC in January and 5ºC in July.
Balmaceda is nothing approaching continental and is more similar to the northern UK than anything in the Eastern U.S.
The more seasonal climates of the higher elevations in interior Australia are still more like ocean moderated subtropical climates.
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