Is the climate of Miami more similar to the climate of Bangkok or to the climate of Atlanta?
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Kind of a tangential question, but does anybody know why the wet season in central Vietnam happens so late in the calendar year, i.e. September-December? It seems different from the rest of East Asia and is even quite different from the rest of Vietnam.
Rainshadowed during summer of SW monsoon winds after ITCZ passes north. Full forces of NE trades during the later months.
No trade winds from January-April? I would have thought that would be peak trade wind season.
Those months do have trade winds, just not as much rainfall as preceding Sept-Dec period. Probably fluctuations w/ tropical vorticies, which are less prevalent during Jan-April. The "trade winds" in reality aren't fixed, they contort/deflect in relation to land geography. In the case of Asia, the "trades" come from the Siberian High, flowing into the corresponding monsoons in the Southern Hemisphere (i.e. Southeast Africa, Northern Oceania).
This is all assuming that you are talking of the Central Vietnam coast, and not inland. Mountains in the way skew things alot, same situation in parts of Malaysia and Thailand.
Kind of a tangential question, but does anybody know why the wet season in central Vietnam happens so late in the calendar year, i.e. September-December? It seems different from the rest of East Asia and is even quite different from the rest of Vietnam.
It's the northeast monsoon blowing moisture-laden winds from the South China Sea.
Bangkok, easily. Miami def gets cooler in the winter, but both are tropical cities. Atlanta has 4 seasons even if on the milder side of things. Miami has very few deciduous trees and only subtle differences in vegetation. There is a huge difference in Atlanta when it comes to the plants. Atlanta gets regular freezes/frosts and even snow. In Miami, it hits 66 degrees and people post Instagram pictures with snowman emojis.
You have to reach as far north as like Orlando, to be more like Atlanta than Bangkok, though Orlando's climate is still much more like Miami's than Atlanta's.
Findings:
From these results, Miami and Bangkok are more similar in all seasons than Atlanta. Bangkok has hot "winters" and very hot summers, which indicates the presence of equatorial species, even accounting precipitation. Miami has warm "winters" and very hot summers, which indicates the presence of tropical species, even accounting the occasional cold snaps, as an average high of ~26ºC [~78.8ºF] and an average low of ~17ºC [~62.6ºF], isn't very cold at all, that's like December in Sydney! With this data, we can safely say that both are dominated by hot weather, with the average temperature in Bangkok only ~3ºC [~5.4ºF] warmer than Miami.
Atlanta however, has a very different temperature pattern. It has cold winters and hot summers, representative of transitional subtropical climates onto "warm continental". Due to frost occurring on many winter nights, tropical plants will die very fast there, even with the long tropical summers. On average, Atlanta is between "cool" and "warm," where in my opinion, both regimes are roughly equal, as springs and autumns have glorious temperatures and foliage there. Proving, that temperature-wise, Miami is closer to Bangkok to Atlanta.
Conclusion:
Based on statistics, not personal conceptions about the climate, Miami is much more similar to Bangkok than Atlanta. The warm to very hot temperatures year around, are reminiscent of outer tropical climates, such as Tampico, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Maputo, Dhaka, Kolkata and Cairns. Even considering sunshine, Atlanta still has a huge difference in precipitation pattern and humidity, which Bangkok does not. I have no more to say.
Bangkok (Miami climate is nicer tho for sure). The transition point to being more like Atlanta than Miami is probably somewhere in rural southern Georgia (Gainesville and Jacksonville are kinda transitional, but Jacksonville is pretty much the same as Miami in the summer and not nearly as nice in winter; beach is nicer in summer tho as water is a little cooler).
Just realized something which I feel appropriate to add here. Atlanta's average July temperature is only on par with Miami's spring anf fall (late May/early October) weather.
Miami still holds the heat advantage even in summer, by almost 2 degrees.
Frankly, I'm absolutely shocked why anyone is saying Miami is more similar to Atlanta temperature wise. Seems like the usual City-Data trend of overemphasizing freak cold snaps as if they're yearly occurences, not really any other way it could be justified.
My guess is that the midway point between Atlanta's climate and Miami's climate is probably downtown (not airport!) Tallahassee. Somewhere in rural southern Georgia wouldn't be a bad answer though, if it referred to one of the rural barrier islands near the Florida border.
Even though I love snow, I can get why some people hate it, but how can you hate refreshing chilly air? That's the best lol.
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, not really any other way it could be justified.
