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East Asian climates correspond roughly to East Coast/Gulf Coast climates.
Several come to mind immediately:
Hong Kong--Miami
Guangzhou--Tampa
Fuzhou--Orlando
Nanjing--Chattanooga or Raleigh (Nanjing is in a transition between flat ground and mountainous terrain, has hot, humid summers and mild winters that receive a decent amount of snow--like Chattanooga).
Suzhou--Atlanta
Shanghai--Charleston
Singapore--San Juan (actually, can someone do better? Singapore doesn't have hurricanes/typhoons, whatever you call them, but San Juan sure does!)
Cancun--Somewhere between Da Nang and Hanoi
Harbin--Winnipeg (temperature-wise, although Harbin is much drier and thus sees much less snowfall.)
Sapporo--Buffalo, NY (although Sapporo actually receives over twice the snow!!!)
Basically, Guangdong and Fujian correspond to Florida, Jiangnan region (between Nanjing and Shanghai) correspond to the Piedmont Atlantic (i.e. Huntsville, Atlanta, Tennessee and the Carolinas).
Intermountain West I think would be analogous to Tibet, Himalayas, all the way to Central Asia.
Dubai would be like Phoenix, but not quite, because Dubai has Phoenix temperatures with New Orleans humidity, despite being a desert. Maybe Puerto Penasco on the Gulf of California is a better match, as it is a desert location with very high humidity, too. Persian Gulf Coast probably corresponds to Gulf of California coast.
Persian Gulf Coast probably corresponds to Gulf of California coast.
I wouldn't say so. Hard to find an analogy in North America but the average summer day on the Persian Gulf coast would be a high of 100-105 and a low of 85-90 degrees. Head just 10 miles inland and the average humidity drops drastically, with highs averaging 115-120 and lows 85. The Gulf of California is much cooler.
I'll focus the average mean temperatures factor mostly
Naha, Hong Kong, Taipei, Hanoi = Tampa
Tokyo = Virginia Beach
Osaka, Shanghai = Memphis
Seoul = Indianapolis
Sendai = Charleston, WV
Sapporo = Toronto
Singapore = San Juan
Sanya = Key West
Xiamen = Daytona Beach
Dalian = Chicago
Phoenix might feel a bit more like Dubai during the southwest monsoon.
Yeah, but even the summer monsoon brings the dew point up to 72 or so. That's about as humid as Atlanta, but New Orleans frequently sees dew points exceed 80 (which is in the neighborhood of Dubai)
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Yeah, but even the summer monsoon brings the dew point up to 72 or so. That's about as humid as Atlanta, but New Orleans frequently sees dew points exceed 80 (which is in the neighborhood of Dubai)
Dubai doesn't get any rain in the summer though (despite the increased humidity). A better comparison to Phoenix would be in eastern Pakistan or Western India
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