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Really ballparking the sunshine and precipitation. Generally a cool, cloudy, wet, foggy, windy, snowy climate. Technically humid continental, but with a strong maritime influence. The area is prone to battering wind, rain, snow, and ice storms. Weeks of uninterrupted cloudy and stormy weather are common. Most years winter doesn't truly end until late April or early May. While summers do get rainy, it is likely to be the sunniest, driest time of the year with highs in the 60s and 70s. Hottest temperature most years are around 75-80 while coldest is around -15. Basically a more extreme version of St. John's.
You almost created an Oceanic Subarctic climate!
For some reason, I don't mind Iceland's oceanic subarctic climate but I hate the oceanic subarctic climate anywhere else! This resembles one too much.
So I have to give your climate an F.
Your climate does not have a "summer"! Those are fall/spring temperatures in June, July, August, and September. And are there really record lows around freezing(32 degrees) even during these months!?
My dream climate has almost the same amount of precipitation as yours yet mine has 3,200 sunshine hours instead of only 1,300.
My climate has weeks of uninterrupted cloudy weather but this happens only 2 months of the year. The other 10 months of the year are extremely sunny but still with a lot of precipitation.
Really ballparking the sunshine and precipitation. Generally a cool, cloudy, wet, foggy, windy, snowy climate. Technically humid continental, but with a strong maritime influence. The area is prone to battering wind, rain, snow, and ice storms. Weeks of uninterrupted cloudy and stormy weather are common. Most years winter doesn't truly end until late April or early May. While summers do get rainy, it is likely to be the sunniest, driest time of the year with highs in the 60s and 70s. Hottest temperature most years are around 75-80 while coldest is around -15. Basically a more extreme version of St. John's.
D+ from me. I could cope with those sunshine levels and summers like that because that's more or less what I grew up with and I quite like winters with lots of gales and squally showers (though the Lake District in the far northwest of England is a better match than Yorkshire as they have the heavy rain and fog as well, just about ten times less snow and less winter cold than what you want).
As I've said before, winter should last three months and end in mid-March at the latest, late April not good enough. Your winter lasts half the year by the looks of it.
Yeah winters are more extreme, hence the humid continental classification. But I certainly wouldn't mind living in a subpolar maritime climate.
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For some reason, I don't mind Iceland's oceanic subarctic climate but I hate the oceanic subarctic climate anywhere else! This resembles one too much.
So I have to give your climate an F.
Your climate does not have a "summer"! Those are fall/spring temperatures in June, July, August, and September. And are there really record lows around freezing(32 degrees) even during these months!?
Well after months of cold, cloudy, snowy, rainy weather...a sunny 67 F day will certainly feel like summer. Why do you like Iceland's climate? Average summer highs are a good 10-15 F cooler than in my dream climate. Even if only for a few days or a week, there will likely be "true" summer weather with highs in the mid to upper 70s or even around 80 F most summers. Reykjavik's record high is only 79 F. Sunshine hours are about the same.
F. Not my cup of tea at all! Grey, wet, cold.
The upside is there would be lots of "Xbox days".
I enjoy a cozy indoor lifestyle, so this weather would certainly encourage such.
Although I actually do take walks on not so nice days. I just love the feel of a cold wind and rain hitting my face and the look of a gray sky. Refreshing and invigorating. Physical activity in cooler weather is also much more comfortable.
That's your second F. I didn't think it was THAT horrible!
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