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Exactly, Sydney may have more rain.. But in Sydney he rain pour down very heavily, and hence why isaid places like London, Seattle have long, gray misty days..
My memory of rain in SE England when I lived there is that slow, drizzly rain was very uncommon. Any rain was actually uncommon, it was a very dry place. Rain happened most in winter and autumn and could be heavy. Very few days had any misty prolonged rubbish, unlike here where it is a bit more common. Also any place I've lived in England there's no shortage of heavy convective rainfall downpours - just maybe not quite as long lasting as in places like Sydney.
in Buenos Aires (a humid subtropical weather) we are having the coldest winter in decades and temperatures never get lower than 35f. 40f is very cold for our winter. Winter averages are between 50s and high 60s. Thats subtropical, imo.
This post is very old, but I just wanted to say:
Temperatures do get lower than 35 F in BA pretty much every winter, albeit in few occasions. The lowest every year is around 32 F. For example, in 2010 it was -1.7 C (28.9F), and in that same year it dipped below freezing one more time: -0.6 C (30.9 F). Some years the lowest low is above freezing but just by 1 or 2 C.
BTW, as to NYC being subtropical, I don't think it should be called that. If the labels in the calssification system should have some meaning for most people in the world, then NYC should be temperate.
Then, if those labels are to be selected according to some other criteria (culd be personal preferences, for instance), that's another story.
Sydney does have an Oceanic climate, or Koeppen Cfb, that much is fact (as far as that particular system goes). However it is on the hotter end when it comes to the Summer, and thus is somewhat borderline. Also year-round mist is hardly a characteristic of Cfb climates, although many Cfb places do possess that feature. There are many places such as the West Coast of the United States that have rainstorms that amount to a lot more than a typical rainstorm in some place like the U.K. or New Zealand.
London is certainly much more prototypical than Sydney when it comes to a Cfb climate, but both qualify .
My memory of US west coast ( mostly Eureka north)rainfall, was that it was light and prolonged, in comparison to rainfall around here. It got old quickly. If there was a heavy fall, I can't remember it. The heaviest I remember was around San Jose. It was only moderately heavy, but caused minor surface flooding-presumably because the ground was dry.
In contrast, when it rains around here, it is typically heavier than anything I saw there.
My memory of US west coast ( mostly Eureka north)rainfall, was that it was light and prolonged, in comparison to rainfall around here. It got old quickly. If there was a heavy fall, I can't remember it. The heaviest I remember was around San Jose. It was only moderately heavy, but caused minor surface flooding-presumably because the ground was dry.
In contrast, when it rains around here, it is typically heavier than anything I saw there.
I was meaning something more like the Olympic Peninsula or British Columbia than Seattle. And New Zealand bucks the pattern of the mist as you noted .
Yeah it's just sprinkling and overcast most of the time..
Actually, no. Even here in Leeds, rain that lasts all day is not common at all, and in spring and summer they virtually don't exist, most if not all of our summer and spring rainfall either come from showers or overnight rainfall, that was definitely the case last summer.
Cloudy, yes, very much so, but in the case of lowland eastern England, definitely not wet, in fact, quite dry, maybe even very dry.
I heard that pelee island in ontario is considered subtropical
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Originally Posted by greatwhitenorth
yeah in july the average high temp is 29.5 and the low is 20.5 but in jan its -7 as a low and 0 as a high
Are you sure? Those averages seem a bit high to me.
The best I could find, 1971-2000 data from Environment Canada for Point Pelee, shows 26.7/18 C (I know that's not the island but I couldn't find any 30-year averages for stations on Pelee Island itself on the website but maybe someone's collected stats somewhere).
It sounds a bit hard to believe that while being in the lake and thus moderated quite a bit as much as it should, the average high/low would be raised so much to 29.5/20 C.
Usually, the city of Windsor, which is nearby, is touted as the warmest summer spot in Canada overall (it's got 27.9/17.4 in July for 1971-2000, so lows a bit lower but highs a degree higher than Point Pelee), but I don't know how much it would change if we got proper data from Pelee Island.
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