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I agree with MeteoFlan about the amount of rain and storms in your climate. the type of T-storms you are talking about would bring far more rain than 1-5 mm (which is like 10 minutes of a London drizzle). a tropical location with 270+ days of convection based thunderstorms a year would bring an absurd 200 inches of rain (if not more).
1. B+, would be an A if you trade the way-too-frequent wimpy sprinklestorms for less frequent manly Florida thunderstorms.
2. coconut palms would grow but i don't think they would fruit because your summer temps don't get warm enough (Bermuda has this problem)... i think coconut palms need a lot of 84°F+ days for flowering and fruit... therefore there would never be a permanent standing of coconut palms in the habitat...
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Being an Island, shouldn't it be slightlycooler overall at that latitude ? How is Bermuda's Climate, already ?
in terms of temperature Bermuda is only a few degrees off from the OP's climate. so i'd say its pretty realistic from that perspective.
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I agree with MeteoFlan about the amount of rain and storms in your climate. the type of T-storms you are talking about would bring far more rain than 1-5 mm (which is like 10 minutes of a London drizzle).
1 mm in 10 minutes or 5 mm in 30 minutes is more than a drizzle; it's more like a moderate rain shower. This climate gets Honolulu like rain showers with the audiovisuals of thunder and lightning that the real Honolulu doesn't have. The daytime highs are similar to downtown L.A year round but the nights are much warmer (especially in winter) yet still cooler than Honolulu. Given that most homes in Hawaii don't have AC, I think its totally liveable without it.
I bet deneb and Hawaii4ever give it an A.
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Geez, you wouldn't last a week living in my house.
Same here, it's almost always above 25c in the summer in my place, sometimes close to 30c during heatwaves. We use electric fans if it gets that hot inside.
A- (A if there's possibility of 25C+ sea surface temp, but not A+ - a bit too sunny). Overall nice warm climate, subtropical bordering tropical. AC is needed of my room faces west/south Above ~24C indoors is when I need AC. (ceiling fan is enough for below 27)
I agree that this is too warm for 30°. I was in Lombok island in late southern hemisphere winter, only 8°S but I do feel its the cooler period (19-21 C low is slightly below avg)
1 mm in 10 minutes or 5 mm in 30 minutes is more than a drizzle; it's more like a moderate rain shower. This climate gets Honolulu like rain showers with the audiovisuals of thunder and lightning that the real Honolulu doesn't have.
yea i suppose your right... 1 mm in an hour is more like a drizzle, it just seems so low to me. i guess i'm just use to my floridian torrential downpours dumping over an inch in an hour... (which i guess is like 7 mm in 10 minutes)...
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A- (A if there's possibility of 25C+ sea surface temp, but not A+ - a bit too sunny). Overall nice warm climate, subtropical bordering tropical. AC is needed of my room faces west/south Above ~24C indoors is when I need AC. (ceiling fan is enough for below 27)
I agree that this is too warm for 30°. I was in Lombok island in late southern hemisphere winter, only 8°S but I do feel its the cooler period (19-21 C low is slightly below avg)
SST averages 25 C in the warmest month and 18 C in the coolest month; popular beach destination in summer but in winter, its a bit chilly without a wet suit.
It's warmer than most climates at 30 N but not unreasonably so (San Diego is at 32 N and has similar winter day time highs (but much cooler nights due to drier air/continent influence). Look at Bermuda which is at a similar latitude. Also try to imagine the climate of Hawaii if it was at 30 N instead of 20 N; I think the temperatures would look similar due to the moderating influence of being surrounded by a warm ocean.
I vote Sunshine-Convection Island a B. It looks like a swell place to live
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