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Brisbane 26 68.42%
Orlando 12 31.58%
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Old 02-18-2012, 04:45 PM
 
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Orlando, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

89 clear days, 132 cloudy days

Brisbane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

124 clear days, 110 cloudy days

I would choose brisbane because of the cooler summers and less chance of the plants dying of cold winter lows.
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Old 02-18-2012, 05:16 PM
 
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Brisbane due to cooler summers. I think Orlando may be sunnier overall (Brisbane's Wikipedia's are around 200 hours/year too high), plus I am suspicious about the consistency around the "cloudy day" definition.
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Old 02-18-2012, 07:36 PM
 
Location: In transition
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Brisbane hands down.. much warmer record lows in winter.. I don't think Brisbane has ever recorded a frost.
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Old 02-18-2012, 09:16 PM
 
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Brisbane due to cooler summers. I think Orlando may be sunnier overall (Brisbane's Wikipedia's are around 200 hours/year too high), plus I am suspicious about the consistency around the "cloudy day" definition.
Yeah not sure on that, brisbane's data was from the bom brisbane aero. Orlando's was from the text on wiki above the climate chart. I am assuming that the way they measure cloudy days is different, I would assume also the clear days is off.
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Old 02-18-2012, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Leeds, UK
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Orlando.
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Old 02-18-2012, 09:27 PM
 
Location: Katy, Texas
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Brisbane for higher record lows. Orlando isn't bad either.
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Old 02-19-2012, 02:20 AM
 
Location: Dalby, Queensland
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I choose Brisbane because the summer is cooler, 20-30 sounds almost perfect to me, while 23-33 with high humidity is a bit much.

Brisbane can get frosts away from the urban heat island but no weather station in the Brisbane area has recorded as low as -7C.

I should also point out that historically, Brisbane's rainfall is higher than what is shown on Wikipedia because those averages only date back to 1999, and many of those years were bad drought years.

This is the old Brisbane CBD site: Climate statistics for Australian locations
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Old 02-19-2012, 02:48 PM
 
Location: New York
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Orlando for the superior (hotter) summer weather. Winters look very similar, as for Orlando a rare and random low in the 30's isn't gonna kill me (or the tropical flora).
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Old 02-19-2012, 08:59 PM
 
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Brisbane

It's summers are warm enough, don't need the extra Orlando warmth.
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Old 02-19-2012, 10:26 PM
 
Location: Top of the South, NZ
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Brisbane. Nicer summers, and less potential for killer frosts. Quite a close match.
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