Would you give a whole country an F? (hottest, warmest, averages)
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Originally Posted by RWood
Given the range of subjective preferences on this forum, I see no point in even examining the responses.
The question is directed to personal preferences. It isn't designed to arrive at a global "F" country which would be impossible, Antarctica would go the closest but even this wouldn't receive a unanimous F rating.
On Gambia, it got singled out because its highest point is only 54 m. Therefore there's no respite from its default hot and humid climate. Chad and Niger have elevated areas- granted not many people live there but for the sake of this argument these areas should be taken into consideration.
Oh, just off the top of my head, there's Venezuela, Guayana, Suriname, French Guiana, Paraguay, Panama, all of the Lesser Antilles, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, both Congos, Sudan, Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
I could probably post a few others, but you get the idea. Generally any country in the latitudinal tropics and with no highland territory is at risk. I may seem hard on these climates, but to me they're all at the bottom of the barrel. If a place has some tall highlands they usually escape being all failing; I rate some subtropical highlands better than an F grade (but never any better than C). Guatemala for example, is not on my all-failing list. Neither is Kenya or Brazil (Brazil has a small chunk of highland territory). India really takes advantage of this effect as well, though it's confined to the north.
It's cooler than Sydney btw. I'd be interested to know how much of Australia gets an F from you. I hazard a guess that only the Snowy Mountains, Victorian high country and parts of Tasmania escape it for you.
It's cooler than Sydney btw. I'd be interested to know how much of Australia gets an F from you. I hazard a guess that only the Snowy Mountains, Victorian high country and parts of Tasmania escape it for you.
I didn't know about that one. It would get better than an F from me, probably. I'd be inclined to rate it a D.
As for how much of Australia gets an F from me, I'd hazard a guess that it's the vast majority of the country, and you're probably right about the exceptions.
Kiribati, Singapore - in fact most low-lying equatorial places are an F, there are few exceptions - bar Galapagos Islands - which is an Ecuador territory.
Most African and South American tropical countries have significant highland areas, and in the Middle East even Suadi Arabia, Iraq etc do as well..
Even Panama in Central America reaches 3500 metres elevation.
Qatar and Bahrain are the only Middle Eastern countries without elevation, but they are not an F due to an acceptable cool season.
And I thought Greenland was a Denmark territory?
This is the only cold place I'd give an F for the whole country.
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