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I can't really tell for sure because the winter street view there is old (so poor graphics), but Brownsville seems to be one of the only southeastern U.S. places dominated by broadleaf evergreens, along with tropical south Florida and Tampa. I do believe this however, as such infrequent freezes and warm winter means combined with such a brief wet season would probably make it hard for many deciduous trees to properly cycle through, and I had previously heard that Brownsville is dominated by such broadleaf evergreen vegetation.
Even if they are deciduous-dominated, however, they'd probably still be more like Sydney than other U.S. cities. Places like Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans and Houston aren't close enough to being arid, and south Florida is too tropical and too wet in summer for much similarity. Brownsville is literally near the teetering edge between Cfa/BSh and is at least somewhat dry most of the year, September and October being the exceptions. Sydney also shows an early autumn maximum in precipitation although not as strongly.
But Sydney is far from being semi-arid. Its driest month gets 69 mm of rain. Koppen used 60 mm as the threshold for a tropical rainforest climate, so clearly Sydney is nothing like semi arid. Sydney's poor soils encourage plants with tough, flammable leaves which makes it look drier than it is.
But Sydney is far from being semi-arid. Its driest month gets 69 mm of rain. Koppen used 60 mm as the threshold for a tropical rainforest climate, so clearly Sydney is nothing like semi arid. Sydney's poor soils encourage plants with tough, flammable leaves which makes it look drier than it is.
I meant that it's physically close to BSh climates and has a marked autumn wet season as well as xeric-looking vegetation, not that it climatically borders on BSh. And as I've said, intercontinental comparisons are much harder than intracontinental ones, especially when one of those continents happens to be cold-snap-prone eastern North America (see my posts on the thread about whether Beijing is more like Memphis or Wilmington).
I meant that it's physically close to BSh climates and has a marked autumn wet season as well as xeric-looking vegetation, not that it climatically borders on BSh. And as I've said, intercontinental comparisons are much harder than intracontinental ones, especially when one of those continents happens to be cold-snap-prone eastern North America (see my posts on the thread about whether Beijing is more like Memphis or Wilmington).
I see, you're right. There are quite a few climates like Sydney that have no close equivalents in the northern hemisphere and especially North America. Others that come to mind are some of the dry Cfb/BSk borderline climates near the south coast of South Africa that feature very mild temperatures with comparatively little seasonal variation.
But Sydney is far from being semi-arid. Its driest month gets 69 mm of rain. Koppen used 60 mm as the threshold for a tropical rainforest climate, so clearly Sydney is nothing like semi arid. Sydney's poor soils encourage plants with tough, flammable leaves which makes it look drier than it is.
To be fair, that's the coastal area or near Sydney Harbour. Many everyday people don't reside there, unless they're tourists in a hotel or are rich. I don't usually the count the CBD to represent Sydney's climate.
Most Sydneysiders live inland and the driest month in that region gets 46.4mm of rain (Prospect Reservoir). Still far from semi-arid, but more closer to a drier Med climate than to a full fledged humid rainforest climate.
El Cajon (San Diego) and Culver City (Los Angeles) have a nearly identical monthly temperature range to the Sydney region throughout the year (not counting rainfall):
EDIT: The closest I found in the southeast is Biloxi, Mississippi. Although it's far too wet and the summers seem very humid, it is the 'closest related' Cfa climate to Sydney in the USA. And it's a far more better 'climatic twining' than Myrtle Beach SC, which has been brought up here a lot of times.
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