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Oceanic climates can be a mixed bag, but it's the year round intrusion of frontal activity originating in the polar zone, that define them. Paris is very much in that category.
I'd say most of the year is enough to count as oceanic, especially if the fronts and cloudiness are as frequent as Seattle. Its patterns for all but a few months are far out of the usual of most Mediterrean climats.
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Paris might have a bigger seasonal range than an Oceanic climate like mine. But my climate has greater diurnal range and sunshine (both indicative of a more Continental climate) and I don't see my climate as more continental than Paris.
I'd use annual range as an indicator of continentality more than diurnal range, with a latitude adjustment. I don't think forgetten username was referring to diurnal range.
This winter in the Northwest has been insanely warm! The cherry blossoms are already blooming for God's sake. It's been 40s and 50s and even 60s since New Years, hardly any freezing days. It feels more like April than February and more like northern California than Oregon/Washington. Last summer was insanely hot and I feel like this summer will be too. I think we had 3 weeks total of 90+ days and tons of nights that failed to drop below 60F. One day at dawn in August it was still near room temperature, and the humidity was probably about 80-90%. Yuck.
Oh. My. God. Yes.
Pretty sure this January turned out to be the warmest on record. We have flowers coming up in our backyard
Yet, I am still hearing people gripe about it and asking for summer to hurry up. Ugh.
I've become so disillusioned because our winters don't amount to any sort of real winter at all, while our summers are growing ever hotter with each passing year. Last summer we had almost no cloudy days and the majority of days seemed to hit 80+ degrees. It was enough to **** me off lol.
It's time for me to make my exit. Anchorage's climate will suit me much better I'm leaving here in June, so last summer was my final summer in the Seattle area. Hallelujah.
Pretty sure this January turned out to be the warmest on record. We have flowers coming up in our backyard
Yet, I am still hearing people gripe about it and asking for summer to hurry up. Ugh.
I've become so disillusioned because our winters don't amount to any sort of real winter at all, while our summers are growing ever hotter with each passing year. Last summer we had almost no cloudy days and the majority of days seemed to hit 80+ degrees. It was enough to **** me off lol.
It's time for me to make my exit. Anchorage's climate will suit me much better I'm leaving here in June, so last summer was my final summer in the Seattle area. Hallelujah.
I'm pretty sure one day in the deep south during summer will make you cry loudly, LOL .
As for the climate, I give it a B. Nice summers (compared to here), but lack of snow saps away 1 letter grade.
Ugh. A city that has a reputation for being "rainy" but sees less thunderstorms than L.A
Cold, overcast, drizzle 9 months a year and a lukewarm summer. Ugh
D- and not an F because it usually doesn't get super cold and they do get warmer and sunnier summers than San Francisco.
Four months of the year at most are actually cloudy...
Oceanic climates can be a mixed bag, but it's the year round intrusion of frontal activity originating in the polar zone, that define them. Paris is very much in that category.
Paris might have a bigger seasonal range than an Oceanic climate like mine. But my climate has greater diurnal range and sunshine (both indicative of a more Continental climate) and I don't see my climate as more continental than Paris.
You have a more purely meteorological definition of things. I use charts and means.
But Seattle's cool season precipitation isn't really typical of Mediterranean climates at all, it's only three or so months where Seattle is an exception. Very frequent drizzle and frontal systems passing through, most of the cool season precipitation is from subpolar lows that are rather stuck.
Oceanic climates often have a drying trend in the warmest months. Seattle's is just more extreme than most. This climate is rather Seattle like:.
Mediterranean provides the best understanding of Seattle's climate -latitude alone can explain differences to other Mediterranean climates.
Oceanic doesn't provide the best understanding, as it doesn't have an Oceanic climate year round.
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I'm leaving here in June, so last summer was my final summer in the Seattle area. Hallelujah.
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