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I wish I knew more about Toulouse, though just looking at the map it does look as though it straddles the line of C/D climates.
It indeed does. It's a Do climate but by a very thin margin, as March averages 9.8°C and November 9.6°C. If the warming trend continues there, it will most likely become a C climate by the 1991-2020 normals.
Portland is quite into the Do type compared to this.
I voted cool summer Mediterranean because of July's 16 mm, but looking at random places around it on streetwiew it does not have the vegetation I usually associate with Mediterranean climates. But then again I've only been to places with Csa climates, not Csb.
Whether it's Csb or Do seems largely based on your preferred climate system. I like the cool-summer Mediterranean designation as links together climates ( like Point Reyes, Sequim, etc. ) that might otherwise be split by the subtropical designation.
As for whether Mediterranean climate equals "like the climates by the Mediterranean", a good deal of the Mediterranean coastline has humid subtropical or semi-arid and arid climates:
Much of even the more properly Mediterranean Mediterranean region has a rather more ambiguous rainfall pattern, I'm thinking especially of the area around the Spanish coastline, the Adriatic, the northern Aegean, and the western part of France's Mediterranean coast ( e.g. places like Montpellier where only one month qualifies them for Csa. )
4-season cool-temperate in this case.
Overall too much rain for a Mediterranean climate, and only 2 dry months in summer (most Mediterranean have 4-5 dry months).
Slightly too much yearly variation in temperature for Oceanic/ Maritime.
Not a bad climate, nonetheless.
I voted cool summer Mediterranean because of July's 16 mm, but looking at random places around it on streetwiew it does not have the vegetation I usually associate with Mediterranean climates. But then again I've only been to places with Csa climates, not Csb.
Portland's climate felt to me much more like a temperate climate than a Mediterranean one. Thick forests, garden plants looked rather similar to ones you might in other temperate or oceanic climates rather than Mediterranean ones. The summer dryness does affect the type of trees, and many of the grasses turn brown. For about 2 months it barely rains at all in Portland, very noticeable for someone coming from the east coast.
The wetter Csb climates of California look different vegetation-wise than Portland. The wetter districts of California with similar annual precipitation totals to Portland (35-40 inches) have a more "Mediterranean" looking vegetation. For example here looks not too different from the Pacific Northwest:
If you ever visited spain you'd know that it is nothing like a mediterranean climate.
Most of Spain is borderline semi-arid with Mediterranean influences. Opposite case with Portland, borderline temperate oceanic with Mediterranean influences. Much of Spain is like the Central Valley of California, mild, wet winters and scorching hot, dry summers. I voted Mediterranean for lack of a better choice. I don't think Portland is very oceanic, especially with those summer temps
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