Rate the climate: Cooma, Australia (warm, average, rainfall, days)

[Ethereal]

For Australia's standards, it's kind of a "continental" climate. It's a rather dry oceanic climate with warm summers and cool winters (similar to Canberra, but with slightly colder lows) - Very unconventional for an oceanic climate btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooma#Climate

[Candle]

C+

Summer lows are too low but otherwise the summer looks comfortable, if a bit dry. Winters look potentially foggy which lessens the score.

[deneb78]

C- lows are too cold year round

[Teritus]

High look perfect but lows are too low and it's a bit dry - C+.

[theelectricspider39]

C. You can actually get cold weather, which is an upgrade from 90% of Australia.

[jgtheone]

C+

Winters are great, summers a bit too cool and it's a bit too dry overall.

[Walshie79]

Subfreezing lows in summer? Even places in the N Hemisphere around 50-60N struggle to pull that off. Its not a bad climate, though could do with reversing the rainfall distribution. It says fewer clear days than Sydney, though I expect thats in the winter mostly. A solid C.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by Walshie79

Subfreezing lows in summer? Even places in the N Hemisphere around 50-60N struggle to pull that off. Its not a bad climate, though could do with reversing the rainfall distribution. It says fewer clear days than Sydney, though I expect thats in the winter mostly. A solid C.

Don't forget that it's rather inland and also elevated, while these places at 50-60N that you speak of are probably right on the coast.

[ghost-likin]

Originally Posted by Ethereal

Don't forget that it's rather inland and also elevated, while these places at 50-60N that you speak of are probably right on the coast.

I was looking at Malargue,Argentina(36S,1400m),and it have an average low in winter higher than Cooma that is 600m lower,why that happens?

Malargue seems to be more Continental,because it get some Subfreezing Highs,Something i dont think that Cooma have.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by ghost-likin

I was looking at Malargue,Argentina(36S,1400m),and it have an average low in winter higher than Cooma that is 600m lower,why that happens?

Malargue seems to be more Continental,because it get some Subfreezing Highs,Something i dont think that Cooma have.

Perhaps it's because, unlike Cooma, Malargue lies on the western side of the continent. For some reason, many places on the eastern side of a landmass tend to have much colder winters, or at least, would see extremes (Scandinavia versus Eastern Russia, Redding vs New York, Western Australia vs NSW, etc).