How much temperature variation would you like in your ideal climate throughout the course of a year?

[tom77falcons]

Originally Posted by MeteoFlan

In Buxton the range is from around -3/4 degrees in winter to +24 in summer. It never gets warm but it doesn't even get all that cold for the latitude.

The UK's climate would be immeasurably improved if it had significantly more continentality in the form of a wider spread of cold and warm temperatures, any time of year. A much bigger diurnal range with summer highs 2-4 degrees above current levels, winters would have more severe but briefer cold snaps but also more warm spells, but a similar average to current values. More like a NYC winter. A bit bipe. (bipolar). And the summer would be pretty consistent warmth by day, but with the odd cool night possible.


Temps in a typical year would range from -12°C to 35°C.

Temps in individual months would range a lot more than currently.

For example, take each month of the year and the new extreme low/high it would have:

January: -12°C - +15°C
February: -11°C - +17°C
March: -7°C - +22°C
April: -3°C - +27°C
May: 0°C - +32°C
June: 5°C - +34°C
July: 7°C - +35°C
August: 8°C - +34°C
September: 6°C - +32°C
October: -1°C - +27°C
November: -5°C - +22°C
December: -10°C - +17°C

Those would represent the average lowest and highest temperatures of each month, not the actual average low/high, which would obvisoualy be within those number.

Philly numbers below for past 30 years. I would have thought we were close to your numbers, but we are warmer on highs and lows(except Jan. and Feb lows). Your numbers are probably close to somewhere around here or just north.

Jan -12.2/17.2
Feb -10.6/17.2
Mar -6.7/23.9
Apr 0/28.9
May 6.1/32.2
Jun 11.7/35
July 16.1/36.1
Aug 15/35
Sep 8.9/32.2
Oct 2.2/27.8
Nov -3.3/22.1
Dec -7.8/17.2


What I found really interesting is that over the last 30 years our avg highest temp in the month of Dec, Jan and Feb is all the same at 63F.

[MeteoFlan]

Originally Posted by srfoskey

I believe it refers to averages.

Averages only give you the difference between the coldest and warmest month's means and tell you nothing of how cold or hot it can actually get, or what the diurnal range is, so the question is rendered incomplete when attempting any discussion about "temperature variation throughout the year". You can get two climates with the same difference between winter/summer averages and same mean annual temperature but very different extremes in coldest/warmest temperatures, day to day variation, and diurnal range, see my post above.

[tenkier7]

Continental : 25~30°C (45~54°F)
Oceanic/Med : 10~15°C (18~27°F)

[alex985]

Originally Posted by MeteoFlan

Averages only give you the difference between the coldest and warmest month's means and tell you nothing of how cold or hot it can actually get, or what the diurnal range is, so the question is rendered incomplete when attempting any discussion about "temperature variation throughout the year". You can get two climates with the same difference between winter/summer averages and same mean annual temperature but very different extremes in coldest/warmest temperatures, day to day variation, and diurnal range, see my post above.

I agree that the question should have been more specific, because "temperature variation" could easily refer to extremes also.

[Teritus]

In terms of max. temp, maybe about 17 degrees from the peak of summer to the same in winter. Min. temps slightly less, about a dozen or so.

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30-35 is enough for me