Rate this climate: Tripoli, Greece (snowfall, hot, warm, recorded)

[Alkis]

Tripoli has a continental climate with some characteristics of mediterranean climate. Winters are damp, wet and relatively cold and summers are dry and hot with cool nights. It has on average 115 days with occurence of rain per year with 810 mm of precipitation. It has on average 9 days of snowfall (only snow) per year and 6 snowlying days. The absolute maximum temperature ever recorded was 42 C and the absolute minimum was -17 C

[Alkis]

C from me. I don 't like the dryness between May through September. And I would like a litte bit cooler average highs in summer months.

[MeteoMan]

The Libya Tripoli has a better climate. This one gets a D due to cold winters.

[mar89]

B.
Average temperatures are almost identical to Rimini, but at a 37°N latitude instead of 44°N. Tripoli is wetter and more prone to extremes though. Winter record low temperatures are a bit extreme (-16°C in March?).
However, this is a mediterranean climate, not "continental", which would require the coldest month below 0°C.

[Joe90]

C- for me. Winter is a bit too cold, and the records lows are nasty.

[Alkis]

Originally Posted by mar89

B.
Average temperatures are almost identical to Rimini, but at a 37°N latitude instead of 44°N. Tripoli is wetter and more prone to extremes though. Winter record low temperatures are a bit extreme (-16°C in March?).
However, this is a mediterranean climate, not "continental", which would require the coldest month below 0°C.

Yes I made a mistake it is mediterranean influenced by the elevation. In March 1987 we had a very cold and snowy weather here.

[Alkis]

Also Tripoli is the coldest city of south Greece due to the elevation the others have mild winters and hot summers.

[Ethereal]

D-

Awful. It's like Canberra with wetter winters and drier summers. Summers are too hot and winters too cool.

So far, only one climate in Greece has been rather tolerable. I'm disappointed...

[EverBlack]

D- (E). There is worse.

[Caleb Yeung]

D. Too warm year round and summers are too dry.