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View Poll Results: Wich of these two cities is more prone to 100°F temps ?
Chicago 19 59.38%
Philadelphia 13 40.63%
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Old 12-30-2018, 10:45 AM
 
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Which of these two cities is more prone to 100°F temperature during summer ?
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Old 12-30-2018, 10:47 AM
 
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Neither is particularly, but Philadelphia is more likely out of these two continental climates.
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Old 12-30-2018, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Bidford-on-Avon, England
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Chicago has a higher mean maximum and record highs than Philadelphia
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Old 12-30-2018, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Sheffield, England
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If you google "NWS Climate Data Chicago/Philadelphia" you can find old archived climate data including days over 90/100 degrees, and compare the two.
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Old 12-30-2018, 11:29 AM
 
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Neither is particularly, but Philadelphia is more likely out of these two continental climates.
Philadelphia is subtropical
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia#Climate
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Old 12-30-2018, 11:42 AM
 
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Yes I know it is supposedly according to Koppen, but realistically Philadelphia is nothing like a true subtropical climate such as Hanoi, Brisbane etc. It has freezing winters which are not tropical like in any way at all
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Old 12-30-2018, 11:43 AM
 
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Philadelphia international has had 41 days at 100F+ since 1940.
Chicago's Midway airport stretches back to 1928 and has recorded 92 days. Although most of those happened in earlier decades such as the 1930s and 1950s. Also had a bunch in the 1980s.
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Old 12-30-2018, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Top of the South, NZ
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Yes I know it is supposedly according to Koppen, but realistically Philadelphia is nothing like a true subtropical climate such as Hanoi, Brisbane etc. It has freezing winters which are not tropical like in any way at all
It is a true subtropical climate -it has the seasonal reversal of airflow from the subtropical high, and is a C climate under Koppen.(winters between 0C and 18C) -that's all a subtropical climate is.

Many subpolar climates have winters that aren't polar in anyway way at all - subpolar climates can have winters about as warm as London.
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Old 12-30-2018, 12:13 PM
 
Location: MD
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^Exactly, "subtropical" doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to resemble a tropical climate. It just means a humid climate which is fairly typical of the subtropics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropics
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Old 12-30-2018, 12:47 PM
 
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But how is regular snow and freezing temperatures typical of the subtropics? A large temperature difference between winter and summer to me seems to be a feature of a continental climate. Humid continental matches Philidelphia much better than subtropical - when winters are freezing cold and shoulder seasons aren’t exactly hot and humid either.
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