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USA has Mediterranean climates. China doesn't have such a thing.
USA wins.
China has similar climates compare to Mediterranean climates . Kunming's climate is similar to San Francisco's climate, cool(not cold) in winter and warm(not hot) in summer, even better than San Francisco.
I prefer US climates by a longshot for the diversity and day-to-day variance. Compared to the highly changeable weather in the US, in China it just seems very repetitive with very small changes in temperature each day.
I prefer US climates by a longshot for the diversity and day-to-day variance. Compared to the highly changeable weather in the US, in China it just seems very repetitive with very small changes in temperature each day.
China might seems repetitive with relatively small changes in temperature in summer(hot and humid: 75-90F), but it has highly changeable weather in winter, especially when cold fronts move from Siberia to South China, [One day in January : eg.(Min42F, Max70F) Sunny], cold in the morning and very warm in the afternoon, sunny skies and dry weather, which is very similar to US. Also, California does not have highly changeable weather compared to the east coast, eg. San Francisco: 50-70 every day for most of the year, Los Angeles: 45-95, but 60-80 from March to November.
Note that the warmer areas generally have average annual means of at least 16C, which is warmer than Virginia Beach. Taking this into account, I will count the population of the colder and warmer states of the USA:
Colder states: NY (20m), PA (13m), IL (13m), OH (12m), MI (10.0m), NJ (9.0m), VA (8.5m), WA (7.4m), MA (6.9m), IN (6.7m), MO (6.1m), MD (6.1m), WI (5.8m), CO (5.6m), MN (5.6m), KY (4.5m), OR (4.1m), CT (3.6m), IA (3.1m), UT (3.1m), KS (2.9m), NE (1.9m), WV (1.8m), ID (1.7m), NH (1.3m), ME (1.3m), RI (1.1m), MT (1.1m), DE (962k), SD (870k), ND (755k), AK (740k), VT (624k), WY (579k)
Total: 171.73m
Warmer states: CA (40m), TX (28m), FL (21m), GA (10m), NC (10m), AZ (7.0m), TN (6.7m), SC (5.0m), AL (4.9m), LA (4.7m), OK (3.9m), AR (3.0m), NV (3.0m), MS (3.0m), NM (2.1m), HI (1.4m)
Territories: PR (3.3m), GU (162k), VI (104k), AS (57k), MP (52k)
Total: 157.375m
And note that even though CA is counted as a warm state, San Francisco only has an annual mean of 14.1C, which is lower than some capitals of the colder Chinese provinces, like Zhengzhou and my birthplace of Jinan.
We can now see that China is warmer overall when consider population now. A big reason for it is that Chinese climates tend to be warmer in the shoulder seasons if summer and winter temperatures are the same. Another major reason is that Chinese climates tend to have warmer summer lows.
However, the USA might be warmer if we only take winters into account.
Your entire criteria for the US is skewed towards undercounting American states that you fit under the warm category and over-counting those to consider cold.
You arbitrarily classify a lot of the more moderate, in-between states of the US as cold (Kentucky, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, and oceanic states like Washington and Oregon), while at the same time, somehow, arbitrarily classifying provinces like Jiangsu, Henan, Sichuan, and Shanghai, when many of these provinces are consistently colder than the states I mentioned above, and have plenty of cold mountainous regions.
Overall, going off of averages, the US is warmer. Average daytime highs in the winter are warmer. The US also matches much of China in heat and humidity in summer, while the southwest of the US gets hotter in the summer than anywhere in China, with warmer winters to boot.
Fall isn’t uniformly colder than China all throughout the US, and the only season in which the US is mostly colder than China is spring.
So your bizarre attempt to refute facts by arbitrarily categorizing larger American states and Chinese provinces into broad categories of “warm” and “cold” really didn’t work.
I was talking about the climate per se, without irrigation systems.
Another issue with the west coast of America is the summer temperatures are not stable enough (especially in the north) for certain crops. During rice flowering, the best temperature is 25~30 C (77~86 F), and a long-term cool temperature of 17 C (63 F) or lower can kill the flowers.
While rice can grow at 45 N in China, in the US it typically cannot grow beyond SF area in CA. The Midwest of America has horrible winters, but the summer weather is actually better for agriculture than CA.
Um...rice is most often grown in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas in the US, and all sorts of rice is grown in many regions of the US...just not commercially.
The climate of the US is perfectly suited to rice. How do you think a third of the country was able to grow cotton?
1) You will not experience nighttime temperatures, and most are not “much higher” in China
2) Nanchang, a city that is analogously placed in China (compared to Atlanta in the US) has an average low in January of 36 degrees vs Atlanta’s 34. So this just isn’t true.
Many regions of China, certainly not “only the far north of the country”, gets average lows like that. The far north of China gets far lower average lows than anything seen in the contiguous US.
And then you list a bunch of arbitrary city climates, cherry picking warmer, southern Chinese cities to compare to colder, mostly northern American cities. You’re drawing a bunch of false equivalencies to claim China is “warmer” when it’s not. It’s average lows *aren’t* much higher, it’s winters are typically much colder on average, it has comparable summers, overall, and yet cannot get as hot, and alternately as mild, as America’s warmest regions.
Med climate is comfortable for humans but not really good for agriculture. Summer precipitation is way too low.
Mainland China also has some frost free regions, and about 1/5 of China never recorded -15 C or lower.
However all of contiguous US has records of 0 C or lower. The vast majority has -15 C or lower.
Many regions of the contiguous US, notably the southwest and the west coast, have not seen record lows below 0 C
But most regions of China and the US have.
A record low temperature is a futile deliberation and doesn’t do anything to dispute the fact that, on average, the US is absolutely the warmer country.
A third of the US falls under the humid subtropical classification. A subzero record cold snap doesn’t make the US colder, especially considering that, in any location much below the Ohio river, snaps that extreme are very anomalous. Southern China gets plenty of moderate cold snaps too, and the fact is incontrovertible: much of China sees about equal summers, but quite a bit colder winters, on average. The US is warmer. Just because the US has been historically more prone to a rare severe cold snap, a record temperature anomaly amounts to a natural disaster. It should not be used to evaluate at all the status quo of a climate, or else, Kentucky would be subarctic, Florida temperate, and Minnesota arctic.
Your evaluation of climate, and of the US climate relative to China, doesn’t make sense.
Your entire criteria for the US is skewed towards undercounting American states that you fit under the warm category and over-counting those to consider cold.
You arbitrarily classify a lot of the more moderate, in-between states of the US as cold (Kentucky, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, and oceanic states like Washington and Oregon), while at the same time, somehow, arbitrarily classifying provinces like Jiangsu, Henan, Sichuan, and Shanghai, when many of these provinces are consistently colder than the states I mentioned above, and have plenty of cold mountainous regions.
Overall, going off of averages, the US is warmer. Average daytime highs in the winter are warmer. The US also matches much of China in heat and humidity in summer, while the southwest of the US gets hotter in the summer than anywhere in China, with warmer winters to boot.
Fall isn’t uniformly colder than China all throughout the US, and the only season in which the US is mostly colder than China is spring.
So your bizarre attempt to refute facts by arbitrarily categorizing larger American states and Chinese provinces into broad categories of “warm” and “cold” really didn’t work.
These classifications are by no means arbitrary. The reality is that locations in China with the same midwinter temperatures as the US tend to be warmer on average throughout the year. You can't compare Beijing and Chicago or Boston because midwinter is similar. Beijing is more similar to the US upper South outside of winter
Places like Kentucky, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, etc. have about the same average annual temperature as the North China Plain.
Also I put Henan in the cold category. In general I put states/provinces with the main population centers having average annual temperatures below 15.5-16C into the cold category.
Here are some comparisons. China doesn't use a simple (daily max+daily min)/2 formula and instead records temperature on four separate times per day. This causes China's average temperatures on Wikipedia to generally be colder. In order to make it a fair comparison, it needs to be (daily max+daily min)/2 both ways.
Also the more maritime states like WA and OR have winters comparable to Shanghai but summers that are more like Shanghai's fall. Portland's annual temperature is a full degree colder than Beijing, and Seattle's is similar to Dalian, so they don't compare to South China. Even much of northern California has cooler average annual temperatures that are more comparable to those of the North China Plain.
And if you say that winter is more important or that highs are more important than lows, then make your own comparison. I am just comparing which one is objectively warmer/colder, not which one feels warmer/colder.
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