Tanama City: Rate the Climate (snowfall, hottest, warmest, recorded)

[tvdxer]

I admit to creating "imaginary" countries, and one in particular held my attention for several years. It was "Tanama", a two-island nation situated on a very large island in the North Atlantic. It lie between approximately 30N and 50N and was located between 29W and 45W, with a much smaller island centered around 41N 49W. The capital and largest city was known as "Tanama City", a metropolis of some 12 million people, accounting for a fifth of its 60m population. It was on the east coast, situated right at the strait that separated the southern island from the northern island.



Here's something I wrote but never finished in the same document I found the statistics in, dated May 2002:

"Tanama City has a very mild Mediterranean climate. The specific designation for this climate is Csb, meaning that there are no months with average temperatures below the freezing point or above 22 C (although July, with 21.8 comes awfully close) and that precipitation is moderate (Tanama City receives on average 26.5" a year in rain form and 8" a year in snow form). Winters are moderately cool, with

Because winter low temperatures hover around the freezing mark, the amount of snow received can vary quite greatly year-to-year, in sometimes very odd fashions. The official average snowfall is 8.01", but storms like the Great White Storm of 1995 (which dumped 20" of snow on the city) and the unseasonably cold months (such as January 2002, with a snowfall of 34") have produced farmore than that (the winter of 2002 had 550% of average snowfall, and there was no snow and record high temperatures in December!). On the other hand, there have been four climatological winters with no recorded snowfall, and several with very little."

Today, it appears more Ohio or Connecticut to me than Mediterranean! But as a kid growing up in Duluth, you can't blame me for considering it "Mediterranean".

How would you rate the climate? It gets a solid "B" from me.

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B - winters could be colder

[phxgreenfire]

I give it an F because its climate data is off, based on its geographic location.

[deneb78]

D- winters too cold...

[Candle]

Based on those temps this is a Cfb climate...barely (71.5F average temp in warmest month is .1F too low to qualify as a Cfa).

Looks like a slightly more extreme version of oceanic PNW climates.

C+.

A few days ago I made some Cfb variants so it's a little funny to me to see this thread. Here's one of the ones I made:

Spoiler

J 38/27 2.7
F 36/28 2.8
M 42/35 3.2
A 53/46 3.5
M 67/55 3.8
J 76/62 5.5
J 78/65 6.7
A 77/61 9.2
S 73/56 8.6
O 63/45 5.3
N 51/36 4.7
D 39/30 3.2

[Patricius Maximus]

This climate is Csb (Koeppen-wise) and the Summer drought definitely qualifies it as Mediterranean, but it is more similar temperature-wise to Connecticut to most of the Mediterranean. Still, I've seen stranger Csb climates in the Western U.S.

I give this one a C. The winters are way too warm, there's not nearly enough snowfall, too much of the precip is rain, and it's not prone enough to bitter cold snaps. Still it's not terrible. Summers are only on the margins of being decent, and are too hot, especially at night, and drag on for too long. But it gets some credit for being on the margins. Not a place I'd like to live at all, but one could do much worse. For the record I also give climates on the northern coast of California C's as well, and my ideal is 65/45 F for the hottest month and 3/-14 F in the coldest month, along with an average snowfall of 100-250 inches per year.

[Trimac20]

Probably a C-/D for me... am I reading this right, 100% RH in the summer months with very little rainfall? Lol...Sounds like the eastern Mediterranean or the Gulf, although even monsoonal India doesn't average 100% during the wet season, haha.

[tvdxer]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

Probably a C-/D for me... am I reading this right, 100% RH in the summer months with very little rainfall? Lol...Sounds like the eastern Mediterranean or the Gulf, although even monsoonal India doesn't average 100% during the wet season, haha.

Those are record highs in the 100s for the summer months.

[tigre79]

D-. No winter and too dry in the summer.

[Patricius Maximus]

I will add my advisement for you to not be ashamed or otherwise put aback of creating imaginary countries. It's the stuff of the best fiction authors and demonstrates brainpower. Also, I have created entire galaxies myself, so a "mere" country seems to be small-fry .