Which climate classification system do you feel better represents the United States?

[alex985]

They also have Northern AR, Southern MO, KS and Northern OK as oceanic you couldn't be further from an oceanic climate than those climates lol

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by alex985

Sure, but what's so unrealistic about saying it's on the northern cusp of the subtropical zone? It has mild enough winters that snow pack being persistent is very rare, temps below 0 F are very rare there, etc. I feel like NYC has such a bad reputation because it can get big coastal storms from time to time in winter.


I'm not arguing that it's the archetype of a subtropical climate or anything, I'm just saying it has more in common with somewhere like Raleigh NC than somewhere like Minneapolis.


Also, a 26 C annual range is rather mild by Eastern North American standards at that latitude.


I would agree however that the northwestern suburbs of NYC are continental though.

Perhaps, that's why I think that there should be some sort of a categorization between subtropical and continental, especially for US cities. A sudden leap from subtropical to continental is a bit too dramatic.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by Ethereal

Perhaps, that's why I think that there should be some sort of a categorization between subtropical and continental, especially for US cities. A sudden leap from subtropical to continental is a bit too dramatic.

My climate system has that, I have a temperate zone which on the east coast runs from about the NC/VA border up to coastal Connecticut