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I don't see what is so wrong with the summers. 90 is a very comfortable temperature for me. The records are a bit extreme and brutal, but as I said, they don't happen very often. Plus, there is enough rain during the summer to cool things down from time to time.
To me 90F is a very uncomfortable temperature. I think you can understand that . As for the White Christmas, the chances are better than I thought but it's still subpar.
Great climate, A-. I think it's the highest grade I gave to a dream climate. Though I partly agree with PM: December could be colder and the record lows in winter are rather tame to me.
But all in all, a great climate, I'd love to spend a year there.
This is too warm, all-around. The summers are awful, and the seasonal lag makes it have the "frog in a pot" feel. This would drag down the rating a lot even if had my ideal winters, but it doesn't.
I don't understand what difference it makes if there's a lag (or lead) as long as you get the temperatures you like. Care to explain the disadvantage of a lag for you?
Not too hot in the summer and wet enough to keep the landscape green through the dog days, but still hot enough that any summer lover should be happy.
It's clear you're from the south when you write that. While I won't call 90°F highs in the summer uncomfortable, they are a bit hotter than I like and my favorite season is summer.
Your summer is hotter than any summer I've experienced (by whole summer overall).
I don't understand what difference it makes if there's a lag (or lead) as long as you get the temperatures you like. Care to explain the disadvantage of a lag for you?
There is a particular seasonal rhythm that I prefer, and I like my favorite temperatures to occur at favored times of the year. I prefer a rapid onset, with the early-to-middle part of the season being the most intense as opposed to the "slow boil" approach. It just suits my physiology and personality better, which I suppose is the same reason why anyone would have any other preference when it comes to climate.
Lagging or leading make all the difference when it comes to the chance of a White Christmas as opposed to a White Easter for a winter fan, or the difference between having the hottest time of year in late June or still being subject to "late spring" cold snaps in June for a summer fan. When seasons drag on for so long it's a real drag.
As I said before, it suits me a lot better to have, for example, deep winter in Dec/Jan and high summer in Jun/Jul versus having deep winter in Feb/Mar and high summer in Aug/Sep.
That said, lags or leads in seasons are not a major factor in my ratings, and even if this place had the seasonal lead that I prefer it would still rate poorly, but a lag like this is a negative of some significance for me.
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It's clear you're from the south when you write that.
Not necessarily. Many people from places that nearly always feature Brown Christmases would say that a 17F winter average high "isn't too cold for winter" .
Are these the data for an actual place, or did you make up a profile that you would consider ideal?
This looks fairly similar to Boston, where I live, except that the spring and summer are warmer than Boston's, and the period of heaviest snowfall is skewed a bit earlier than it is in Boston.
I'd give this climate a C. It looks sort of like a fairly typical four-season climate except that it's hotter in the summer than I'd prefer. Of course the comfort of those temperatures would also be affected by humidity. Given the precipitation totals, I'm picturing a fairly humid climate. Those summer temperatures are warmer than I'd prefer if the humidity is even moderately high, though they could be very pleasant in an arid locale.
This reminds me a lot of a wetter, stabler Omaha, which also gets a C rating. On second thought, I'll go up a notch to C+ because the extra snow is a plus if your summers are similar to Omaha's.
A warmer version of my current climate, especially the summers. Average high were I live on Christmas is 36 F, yet the chances of a White Christmas are still on the low side. Of course I guess you could "control" in dream climate in such a way that nearly guarantees snow on Christmas.
Summers are too hot, but at least winters are refreshingly cool.
It's clear you're from the south when you write that. While I won't call 90°F highs in the summer uncomfortable, they are a bit hotter than I like and my favorite season is summer.
Your summer is hotter than any summer I've experienced (by whole summer overall).
Yeah. Where I am from in Arkansas and Oklahoma, 90*F is comfortable for the summer. July and August temperatures usually hit at least 110 every year. In 2011, they hit 117*F out there. Compared to that, upper 90s is nothing. But that part of the country also has a reverse monsoon effect where there is very little rainfall in July and August causing the soil to dry up and the temperatures to soar, so when it hits 115*F, its usually very low humidity.
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