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Yes a lot of cloud, but not a lot of moisture, that's way your rain is typically lighter. The UK is less humid than NZ during winter. The Atlantic is relatively warm, but not warm enough to enable much convectional cloud during winter, mostly stratus cloud.
Okay, I see your point, there's been a lot of stratus cloud here for the past 9 days (turning to stratocumulus by the afternoon), but little to no rain.
Western Europe. Most options of Humid Continental. I live just outside Vancouver and the I find winters too mild. Although I used to get much more snow like 5 years ago.
Rome has a great climate. You get tstorms, mild winters, great summers with the Med on your doorstep. Not to mention amazing history and culture.
They don't get the good kind of thunderstorms IMO. They get the cool rainy kind in winter, that have weak cloud to cloud lightning, vs the epic severe storms we get here and warm summer rain that comes with it.
Since we did a regional comparison between the Californian coast vs. Australian coast.. I am wondering which do you think overall has the better climate for your preferences?
To be fair.. let's include Western Europe as the following countries:
France, Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland
and for the PNW.. we'll include: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska...
So which would you choose? It's a really tough choice actually... but I think I will give the edge to Western Europe as it includes a Mediterranean coastline and warmer SSTs in summer overall for the latitude in summer...
This and the Mediterranean has more summer convection vs. the PNW cold drizzle (which still happens on occasion in June and even early July with no summer thunderstorms ever).
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