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Rain certainly does not get rid of humidity around here, it only creates more of it! I remember about 2 summers ago, we got hit with a rainfall and then it stayed overcast for about 2 days and it was horribly humid. I was miserable. I went to Fred Meyer and there was a man in the parking lot who seemed to be really enjoying it. On the way into the store he was walking with his arms open, exclaiming to his children "this is what it was always like when I lived in Chicago, only there it was hotter!" Ick. I guess to each their own. I thought it was hot and more than plenty humid enough, myself. Yuck.
I definitely agree with this! San Diego is the best Meditterranean climate and as yowps3 said no bugs! There is just something about dry summers, rain when it's supposed rain, it just makes it official for me. Though I do think in Humid Subtropical climates like Sydney, you do sort of need the rain to get rid of the humidity. So I guess it all works out then.
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Yeah rain gets rid of humidity? But the not sudden and hick downpours tht are common in Sydney, it's very humid, starts to pour, cools down, sun comes back and result? Worst humidity then before the rain!
^People again confusing Sydney with Brisbane.
Brisbane is the city that gets the classic humid heat, where it rains afterwards, cools a bit and then goes back to humid and hot again - We're not that tropical. Relative humidity can be around 67% with temps at 30C there (pheww!)....It will be a record if Sydney were to have that combination!
When Sydney gets cloudy 'humid' days in the summer, the temps usually hover around 20-24C (that's rather cool so it won't feel 'humid'). These conditions come from a southerly cold front (something similar that Melbourne gets). Our hot days are predominantly dry heat. And when we get rain afterwards, it's cold rain and thunder - Nothing like Singapore, Darwin and Hong Kong...
Odd for a Cfa, Sydney is actually more wet in late autumn and winter (May & June). I also don't like it when most of the rain is thrown in the summer, but I'm also not a big fan of predominant winter rain. Rain, for me, should be more common in autumn and spring, so we can have sunny summers and winters.
I don't understand why the members and weather enthusiast in this board have such a strong preference for summer rainfall..
Isn't it just better to have the rain fall in winter, autumn, spring and to have blue skies in summer?
Rain in summer weakens heat and brings cool, refreshing air. When I was in Greece, I was so glad to see rare summer rain there. Intense sunshine makes heat worse, while in the cooler season sunshine helps to get warm. It also keeps the grass from being yellow and scorched. I'm also not a fan of dry (including Mediterranean) landscapes, I prefer forests which can't be formed without proper summer rainfall.
Rain in summer weakens heat and brings cool, refreshing air. When I was in Greece, I was so glad to see rare summer rain there. Intense sunshine makes heat worse, while in the cooler season sunshine helps to get warm. It also keeps the grass from being yellow and scorched. I'm also not a fan of dry (including Mediterranean) landscapes, I like forests which can't be formed without proper summer rainfall.
I don't understand why the members and weather enthusiast in this board have such a strong preference for summer rainfall..
Isn't it just better to have the rain fall in winter, autumn, spring and to have blue skies in summer?
Absolutely not, I like the "tropical summer" with very hot temperatures, high dew point, nice short heavy warm/hot rain (T-shirt in the rain is great ), beautiful/awesome thunderstorms and a good average sunshine hours (250-300 hours).
I hate the dry summer like South coastal California or med it is very borring, depressing and not interesting for me.
Also i hate the rain in winter for me a true winter = snow and blue sky.
And the warm rain in the summer is very good for the vegetations.
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I think you're right. Provided the rainfall amounts aren't up to Mumbai or Cherrapunji's ridiculous levels - you would still get decent amounts of sunshine with those intense, but brief downpours.
My personal preference is for dry winters (with occasional heavy snow), wetter spring and autumn and mostly dry summers (with brief thunderstorms). So from wettest to driest in this order:
autumn (especially in September)
spring (especially in May)
summer (mostly in early ,June and late August - book-ending a dry midsummer)
winter (evenly spread out across Dec-Jan-Feb).
Rain in summer weakens heat and brings cool, refreshing air. When I was in Greece, I was so glad to see rare summer rain there. Intense sunshine makes heat worse, while in the cooler season sunshine helps to get warm. It also keeps the grass from being yellow and scorched. I'm also not a fan of dry (including Mediterranean) landscapes, I prefer forests which can't be formed without proper summer rainfall.
That's not always the case if you have cities like Brisbane, Tampa, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Charleston. The air will will be too muggy and oppressive.
I prefer wet warm and humid summer weather over the constant sunny blue dome skies and the completely rainless droughty drivvel that you Southern Californians love so much
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), beautiful/awesome thunderstorms and a good average sunshine hours (250-300 hours).
