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Miami should be classified as a Cfa with monsoonal characteristics. Yes, technically it meets the required average temperature in its coldest month to qualify as a tropical climate but...we all know it isn't a true tropical climate. If a place can get highs in the 40Fs and lows in the 20Fs...it's definitely not tropical, even if those are extremes.
Miami should be classified as a Cfa with monsoonal characteristics. Yes, technically it meets the required average temperature in its coldest month to qualify as a tropical climate but...we all know it isn't a true tropical climate. If a place can get highs in the 40Fs and lows in the 20Fs...it's definitely not tropical, even if those are extremes.
Miami is a unique case. I believe it should still be classed as tropical but just barely so as it sits close to the tropical/subtropical line IMO. Therefore, it will have the occasional cold snap that places in the deep tropics won't have.
Miami should be classified as a Cfa with monsoonal characteristics. Yes, technically it meets the required average temperature in its coldest month to qualify as a tropical climate but...we all know it isn't a true tropical climate. If a place can get highs in the 40Fs and lows in the 20Fs...it's definitely not tropical, even if those are extremes.
The extremes are not important for climate classification, because they are already factored into the average. Using an example of a classroom with 30 students, 29 of them made A+ on their exams, and 1 student failed. It would be foolish to conclude that the students in this class generally perform poorly, by paying too much attention to the lowest extreme end of the grades spectrum. If you have to classify this classroom based on students' performance as an A, B, C, or F classroom using your logic, this class as a whole must still be rated F because one student did failed.
Back to this thread, I think any cities with winter max above freezing should be classified as subtropical. NYC, Boston, Denver, etc...should properly be classified as subtropical. tropical to me means that no frost in winter. If there is frequent frost, then the climate is either subtropical or humid continental.
Sydney is labelled at Oceanic.. Isn't oceanic more like London weather? Sydney summers are heavily humid/heavy rain and occasionally sunny.. Where as winters are sunny/clear/mild
Oceanic climate cities have mist year round, where as Syney has heavy downpour in summers and dry winter
Sydney is labelled at Oceanic.. Isn't oceanic more like London weather? Sydney summers are heavily humid/heavy rain and occasionally sunny.. Where as winters are sunny/clear/mild
Oceanic climate cities have mist year round, where as Syney has heavy downpour in summers and dry winter
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 .
Even in Buxton we certainly don't get "mist year round". And also the SE and parts of the East are dry enough to almost be considered "arid" climates, with only rain in thunderstorms in summer and occasional drizzle in winter.
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 .
But generally speaking, oceanic climates are New Zealand, Seattle etc.. Sydney is no where like them..
Sydney should be classified as Subtropical climate
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