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View Poll Results: Most Climatically Diverse State/Province
Colorado 14 18.67%
Utah 1 1.33%
New Mexico 5 6.67%
Washington 13 17.33%
Montana 2 2.67%
Nevada 2 2.67%
Oregon 5 6.67%
Idaho 1 1.33%
Wyoming 1 1.33%
Arizona 9 12.00%
Alaska 4 5.33%
California 39 52.00%
Hawaii 8 10.67%
British Columbia 12 16.00%
Texas 2 2.67%
Yukon 1 1.33%
Other 1 1.33%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 75. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-22-2016, 02:02 PM
 
Location: United Nations
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It's a small island on the east coast of Canada. We get hit with everything here, north, eats, and west and have the gulf stream flowing by our door just to make matters more interesting.
Eh, okay, I thought you meant it had many kinds of climates in it

Wolf Point, Montana is probably one of the most climatically diverse places
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Old 12-22-2016, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Seattle WA, USA
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difference in precipitation in WA

Wettest: Amanda Park: 3,283.7 mm (129.8 in)
Driest: Handford Site: 156 mm (6.14 in)
Difference: 3,127.7 mm (123.66 in)
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Old 12-22-2016, 06:09 PM
 
Location: Vernon, British Columbia
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Old 12-22-2016, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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So it seems to be Colorado then.
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Old 12-22-2016, 06:31 PM
 
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I can't even believe there's a debate about this. Where else can you drive from a 70 degree beach, to a 20 degree mountain, to a 95 degree desert all within an hour of each each other with each location having a vastly different amount of precipitation and plant life native only to those areas? There are probably as many micro climates in CA alone as there are in the entire western U.S. from the foggy northern coasts that redwoods thrive in to the Joshua trees of the high desert, to the native California palm trees in the low desert, to the Pinyon Pines that grow in high elevations in Central CA mountains.
Plant life is the best indicator of diverse climate zones and no where else in the United States are native plants more diverse than in CA.
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Old 12-23-2016, 08:20 AM
 
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Eh, okay, I thought you meant it had many kinds of climates in it

Wolf Point, Montana is probably one of the most climatically diverse places
It does.

"the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period"

Diverse climate. A variety of climates.
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Old 12-27-2016, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Vernon, British Columbia
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Where my mom lives in British Columbia is as climatically diverse as it they come.

This morning the temperature is 25 degrees F warmer a mere 20 miles to the south and at almost the same elevation. This is very common in the winter even though the summer temperatures are the same.
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Old 12-27-2016, 09:44 AM
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So I found these interesting Koppen maps on Wiki, they probably are not super accurate, but I think they do a pretty good job. So which of the following states/provinces have the most diverse climates? Also something to keep in mind is that some of these states only have a tiny microclimate that represents one of the climates, so for instance Washington has 14 distinct climates, but it's only dominated by 4 or 5 of them. Also some climates are more similar than others. Also when voting pick your top three picks.

State/Province [number of climates]

Colorado [16]

Utah [15]

New Mexico [14]
Washington [14]

Montana [13]
Nevada [13]
Oregon [13]

Idaho [12]
Wyoming [12]

Arizona [11]

Alaska [10]
California [10]
Hawaii [10]

British Columbia [9]
South Dakota [9]

Nebraska [8]
Texas [8]

Yukon [5]

Alberta [4]
Connecticut [4]
Florida [4]
Kansas [4]
Massachusetts [4]
New Jersey [4]
Newfoundland and Labrador [4]
New York [4]
North Dakota [4]
Nunavut [4]
Ohio [4]
Pennsylvania [4]
Rhode Island [4]

Illinois [3]
Indiana [3]
Iowa [3]
Maine [3]
Maryland [3]
Michigan [3]
Minnesota [3]
New Hampshire [3]
North Carolina [3]
Northwest Territories [3]
Ontario [3]
Quebec [3]
Saskatchewan [3]
Virginia [3]
West Virginia [3]

Georgia [2]
Kentucky [2]
Manitoba [2]
Missouri [2]
New Brunswick [2]
Nova Scotia [2]
Oklahoma [2]
South Carolina [2]
Tennessee [2]
Vermont [2]
Wisconsin [2]

Alabama [1]
Arkansas [1]
Delaware [1]
Louisiana [1]
Mississippi [1]
Prince Edward Island [1]

Also you can discuss any inaccuracies on the maps, or some unexpected climates found in some of these places.
Seems weird to me that Colorado has the most climates....

I would have guessed California easily.

Even New Mexico imo has more climates then Colorado.

Where are the mild climates in Colorado where you can grow palm trees
New Mexico has all the Colorado climates and a few more warmer ones
that Colorado doesn't have.

Something seems to be wrong with that list,
California has many different climates...has the driest to almost the wettest.
Giant Redwood trees to places with almost no vegetation.

In Canada, British Columbia is by far the most diverse,
it's our "California"
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Old 12-27-2016, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Seattle WA, USA
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Seems weird to me that Colorado has the most climates....

I would have guessed California easily.

Even New Mexico imo has more climates then Colorado.

Where are the mild climates in Colorado where you can grow palm trees
New Mexico has all the Colorado climates and a few more warmer ones
that Colorado doesn't have.

Something seems to be wrong with that list,
California has many different climates...has the driest to almost the wettest.
Giant Redwood trees to places with almost no vegetation.

In Canada, British Columbia is by far the most diverse,
it's our "California"
Well I suppose that Colorado is not as diverse as the map makes it out to be since they use a lower threshold for C (temperate/subtropical) climates but that doesn't stop Colorado from being very diverse, it has many different precipitation patterns.

This is the mildest climate I could find btw Campo

Here are some examples of the different precipitation patterns.
Denver
Durango
Glenwood Springs

However I do think you have a point, mot of Colorado's climates are very similar to one another, for instance having Dfc, Dfb, Dfa, and I doubt that Colorado has much of any C climates so another 5 or so climate categories would be erased which would bring it down to about 11 (which would still be more than California) just because a place can have palm trees and snow in the same state doesn't make it diverse.
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Old 12-27-2016, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Seattle WA, USA
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Seems weird to me that Colorado has the most climates....

I would have guessed California easily.

Even New Mexico imo has more climates then Colorado.

Where are the mild climates in Colorado where you can grow palm trees
New Mexico has all the Colorado climates and a few more warmer ones
that Colorado doesn't have.

Something seems to be wrong with that list,
California has many different climates...has the driest to almost the wettest.
Giant Redwood trees to places with almost no vegetation.

In Canada, British Columbia is by far the most diverse,
it's our "California"
WA has a much starker difference between Wet and Dry, only Hawaii can beet WA in that regard, though WA has large areas of wet and dry, and they are often times right next to each other.

for instance within 80 mi you can either be in Baring with 2,731.8mm of precipitation or
Wenatchee with 231.7mm of precipitation.

there might be a few places in BC that can compete, though BC's dry areas are not as dry and extensive as in WA. Which is a bit surprising considering that the Coastal mountains in BC are taller and more rugged than the Cascades in WA.
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