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Make the climate of Resolute, Nunavut the best you can - under the following constraints:
-You can add or subtract temperatures, but they apply to ALL temperatures uniformly year round. For instance, if you add 10 C / 18 F, it applies to record highs, lows, average highs, average lows, and mean temperature for every month.
-You can multiply or divide precipitation, but it applies equally to all months. For instance, if one month has 0.3” precipitation and another has 1”, and you multiply precipitation by 4, then those months become 1.2” and 4” respectively. Any factor, decimal or whole number can be used.
-Sunshine hours can be added or subtracted in the same way, but keep them realistic (no month can have over 24 hrs sun/day). Subtracting sun hours from zero leaves it at zero.
-Compromises will need to be made
It's far too continental, a poor precip pattern that is summer heavy, and has polar night/an awful sunshine distribution-- so for me it is impossible to truly "fix" in your way...
That being said,
+48F (?) so july is 78/88 and january is 28/18 so the year becomes 57/47...
multiply precip by 6 so ~39" total
The sun doesn't make sense here due to the latitude-- impossible to add sunshine hours to times (mid nov- early feb) that experience polar night without changing the latitude and sun distribution...
There's literally nothing to fix. A near-perfect climate honestly. Maybe make the winters a couple degrees colder and summers a couple degrees warmer, but that's just nitpicking honestly.
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There's literally nothing to fix. A near-perfect climate honestly. Maybe make the winters a couple degrees colder and summers a couple degrees warmer, but that's just nitpicking honestly.
Really? It's not fit for long term human habitation. You would have to import your food, which would get mighty expensive.....
This is going to be a horrible climate no matter what you do to it within the given constraints; so for craps and giggles I decided to take it to the other extreme and make it a horrible hot desert climate. All temps here are added by 45 degrees Centigrade so the average high ranges from 16 C to 52.3 C. The record high is 65.1 C which obviously would be the hottest temperature ever recorded so far. The average low ranges from 9.2 C to 46.7 C, and the record low is -7.2 C. Daily mean is 29.3 C. Avg snowfall is multiplied by zero, and avg rainfall is multiplied by 1/12 so the annual precipitation is .195 inches. Avg humidity is multiplied by 1/5 so avg annual humidity is 18.875. Sunshine hours here are weird because of latitude so I'm not gonna mess with it.
Have fun with that. I can't imagine anyone living here, at least in the summer months.
I put my idea through my climate grader, which generally works well for realistic climates.
Standard Resolute is an 8.5% / Z, while my modifications made it an 83.6% / B. In reality, I would probably call the climate I described a C. The critical stats look good or at least okay: 19 F / -7 C coldest month average, 85 F / 29 C warmest month average, 44 inches of precipitation. But then you still have only 1 inch of precipitation or so in the winter, with something like 10 inches in July and August. Long winters with slow to warm up springs; April's average temperature is still only 38 F / 3 C with below freezing nights. In fact, six months of the year still have lows below freezing.
(Making the temperature addition 42 F / 23 C makes the overall grade 85.4%, because the "ideal" summer and winter temperatures are 81 F / 27 C and 23 F / -5 C respectively, but a climate that is too hot by a few degrees in summer is docked much more than a climate that's too cold in winter. That's because a difference in summer high between 90 F / 32 C and 95 F / 35 C is much bigger in feel than a difference in winter high between 32 F / 0 C and 27 F / -3 C. But in reality, because of the smaller diurnal range and short summers, a hottest month average of 85 F / 29 C (90 / 80 F (32 / 27 C)) would feel better than 82 F / 28 C (87 / 77 F (31 / 25 C))
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