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We often see here on this forum defining locations by their climatical classification: either oceanic, continental or mediterranean. This is relevant, but also has its limits to get an opinion of a place climatical identity since those "climate classifications" are very broad concepts and do not say much about the actual temperatures, but rather say things about rain/dry seasonal patterns.
I post this map of the high temperatures averages (on the whole year). It might reveals somehow a different vision than the traditional divisions between "climate zones".
Six zones:
- light blue: below 10°C
- Dark blue: between 10°C and 12,5°C
- Green: between 12,5°C and 15°C
- Yellow: between 15°C and 17,5°C
- Orange: between 17,5°C and 20°C
- Red: above 20°C
We obviously notice that places of the same climatica zone can actually share very few for temperatures: for exemple Bulgaria and Northern Russia both are classified as "continental" when having close to 10°C of difference on the average. What would be your comments about this?
My comments would be, that our capital is the only one that the mapmaker was unable to locate in the right place.
Otherwise that map represents how prone to cold winters the locations are. Prolonged periods of cold weather push down the annual temperature very effectively, and most European locations are so mild, that severe heatwaves don't push up the temperatures enough. Perhaps excluding some areas in Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Your map seems to be a good indicator of the mild vs colder area climates. Doesn't apply very well to the US since my area would be orange, and we get colder winters than the orange area on your map.
LIke I said, that map is meaningless to compare to climates in the US.
Yes, it's a good map for Europe to judge mildness. But it's hard to distinguish between oceanic and Mediterrean climates without summer temperatures. Annual highs seem to change gradually in western Europe, much more so than sunshine.
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