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...if the landmass was large enough, of course. I'm asking this because I've noticed that in the SH, places usually have colder winters on the Western Side:
Maybe it's cuz of the cold currents. Those cold currents is the rEason why the western coasts of Africa and Australia and Peru are so mild instead of being like Miami or Hong Kong
Maybe it's cuz of the cold currents. Those cold currents is the rEason why the western coasts of Africa and Australia and Peru are so mild instead of being like Miami or Hong Kong
Honestly no idea, I'm guessing the cold currents in the west moderate the climate too. It's cold whenever just the cold and the warm currents meet, like off the coast of North America
...if the landmass was large enough, of course. I'm asking this because I've noticed that in the SH, places usually have colder winters on the Western Side:
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I even Count Australia and New Zealand,they barely have winter..,in South America Its just Because the highests towns are on the Humid Western side of Patagonia,like Bariloche,Esquel,Balmaceda.
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Winters are definitely warmer on the western side of the South Island, as sea temperatures are about 3C warmer. The east coast may get warm Foehn winds ( 25C in Kaikoura yesterday), but the warmer minimums and higher dew points make the west coast feel distinctly balmy compared to the east coast.
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I even Count Australia and New Zealand,they barely have winter..,in South America Its just Because the highests towns are on the more Humid Western side of Patagonia,like Bariloche,Esquel,Balmaceda.
Locations in the South Island are as colder or colder in winter than the four towns in your post above, for the same latitude and altitude. It has been an exceptionally mild first half of the year here and a mild winter so far, but Motueka has still managed 7 frosts for the first 10 days of June. While winters in NZ are pretty mild, I wouldn't say the colder parts barely have them.
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Locations in the South Island are as colder or colder in winter than the four towns in your post above, for the latitude same latitude and altitude. It has been an exceptionally mild first half of the year here and a mild winter so far, but Motueka has still managed 7 frosts for the first 10 days of June. While winters in NZ are pretty mild, I wouldn't say the colder parts barely have them.
On the Truth,yours guys have an Cooler Season.
Also,when some of NZ town at 500m manage an Month like that in Balmaceda,I will accept that NZ is Colder:
5 Days in roll with average temps below -14C,look at day 21 with average temp of -22.8C,its like some of those Cold-core Continental Climates of Northern Hemisphere,because this I always say,Balmaceda is the Coldest Town in Southern Hemisphere.
Now I undestood the reason to the Vegetation there be heavy Deciduous.
Also,when some of NZ town at 500m hold an Month like that in Balmaceda,I will accept that NZ is Colder:
5 Days in roll with average temps below -14C,look at day 21 with average temp of -22.8C,its like some of those Cold-core Continental Climates of Northern Hemisphere,because this I always say,Balmaceda is the Coldest Town in Southern Hemisphere.
Now I undestood the reason to the Vegetation there be heavy Deciduous.
It's never going to match South America for the most extreme temperatures, but still gets colder average minimums. Ranfurly recorded -25C in 1903, with a maximum of -20C and is only the same latitude/altitude. as Balmaceda
More recently in 1994 Ophir (305m) recorded -22C, with 17 nights below -15C (from memory).
I've experienced an unofficial -14C (again from memory)at midday, at Macetown in the 1990s, at an attitude of around 700 metres
No part of NZ is more than 110km from the ocean, so I think these temperatures are reasonably impressive.
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