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Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Originally Posted by wavehunter007
In climates like the Pacific Northwest (or any temperate climate), storms, fronts, highs, lows…etc are the normally prevailing factors that create the climate. In subtropical climates (Mediterranean or Humid subtropical) weather changes are at minimum during 70 % of the year.
That's why Euro Med coast is not subtropical, but warm temperate.
Such thing used to happen maybe from southern Tunisia to Lebanon coast, and California and Cape Town as well.
Sydney isn't that humid as they make it out to be. When we get heat it's always dry. Only those drizzly/rain days in the summer that give us highs of 24C kinda make it feel 'humid'.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet (not gonna go through 16 pages...) but Atlanta, GA isn't as hot as many other cities. At 1000 feet elevation it can be much better than the oppressive heat and humidity in other parts of the south. It's certainly not "Hotlanta" when you're coming from Florida or the Gulf Coast area.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet (not gonna go through 16 pages...) but Atlanta, GA isn't as hot as many other cities. At 1000 feet elevation it can be much better than the oppressive heat and humidity in other parts of the south. It's certainly not "Hotlanta" when you're coming from Florida or the Gulf Coast area.
I live in a very similar climate northeast of Atlanta around the same altitude, and we get snow most years.
While the "Jacksonville" is true for the far deep south, much of the south, especially the upper south, looks more like this:
Southern France is not exactly the "paradise" that is depicted in the movies.. Nice, France has a climate similar to the San Francisco Bay Area (although with slightly more extreme summers and winters.)
Switzerland isn't as cold as snowy as most make it out to be, at least the cities are that way. Except at high elevations, it's definitely warmer than similar latitudes in North America. Lugano, Switzerland (its southernmost city) has a humid subtropical climate.
Los Angeles: I agree with the notions that it's not a tropical paradise. Except for brief heat waves, weather's pretty chilly from December to April and only starts to get really hot around July.
Shanghai: winters are unusually cold (similar to Paris which lies about 18 degrees further north) and snow is a fairly common occurrence.
Tropical lowland, deep tropics = very hot. Its certainly hot but rarely very hot (above 33C/92F). Maybe the persistence of the heat made the false misconception. Its not how extreme the heat level, its about persistence (year-round).
Southern France is not exactly the "paradise" that is depicted in the movies.. Nice, France has a climate similar to the San Francisco Bay Area (although with slightly more extreme summers and winters.)
Nice is about 6c warmer than SF in July, quite a difference !
I thought Venice was far sunnier and warmer, especially in the winters. It's more in par with central European climates than Mediterranean climates. Really didn't expect that, considering that it's usually depicted as a warm, exotic and sunny city in movies.
I always thought Chattanooga was colder than it looks. The winter highs are very mild and snow is quite rare, but the forests nearby have tall evergreen trees that looked like they belong in the Adirondacks or the UP.
Interior Greece with a similar climate to Chattanooga looks much warmer than it actually is during the winter. I saw olive trees covered in snow .
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