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San Fran is Csb it almost never gets heat waves, Victoria can sometimes have a hotter summer than San Fran, the difference is the winter. San Fran is subtropical, and Victoria is temperate.
That's not correct. Victoria also qualifies as Csb, which is cool summer Mediterranean.
okay Victoria is Csb but it still is different than San Fran, it would be like saying New York and New Orleans are both Cfa.
I don't expect classifications to contain places where the weather is the same, only that the cause of the climates of those different places, is best explained by the classification.
Bergen is Cfb, as it my climate. They're nothing alike though, but Cfb does best explain why the climates are like they are.
NYC and New Orleans is the same, both Cfa . I want the best understanding of the climate,, which Cfa provides, not just stats that a holiday brochure can provide.
There is no place in the continental US that has an area similar to the Mediterranean....Forget California....too foggy and too many overcast summer days on the coast to qualify as Mediterranean type of weather. Atlantic Florida, comes closer to Mediterranean type of weather than any other place in the US. I should know....I lived in the Med for half my life.
There is no place in the continental US that has an area similar to the Mediterranean....Forget California....too foggy and too many overcast summer days on the coast to qualify as Mediterranean type of weather. Atlantic Florida, comes closer to Mediterranean type of weather than any other place in the US. I should know....I lived in the Med for half my life.
SoCal isn't nearly as foggy and cloudy as the central and northern coast. SoCal is definitely closer to a med climate than anywhere in Florida. Also, immediate coastal California isn't the only area in the state considered Mediterranean. Inland areas which rarely get fog or overcast weather share that title as well.
So I've been thinking about this again so I want to discuss Csb climates, I will list cities that are sometimes characterized as such, their daily mean for coldest month, how many months of precipitation of less than 40mm, and how many months of daily mean above 10C/50F. And I will list if from warmest to coldest winter
So which of these do you think should be weeded out of this list? I would say that definitely any group that has 2 or less months of <40mm shouldn't be included so thats good bye to Vancouver, Olympia, Lincoln City, Coos Bay, and Astoria.
The west coast has a lot of microclimates due to topography; you can find climates ranging from 15 to 50 inches of annual rain near San Francisco; and on the Olympic Peninsula from 17 to 110 inches. But the precipitation patterns of climates with the same rainfall aren't the same.
Sequim, WA: 16.2 inches of rain/year, 125 days of rain > 0.01", 51 days of rain > 0.1"
Seattle, WA: 38.3 inches of rain/year, 156 days of rain > 0.01", 94 days of rain > 0.1"
San Francisco, CA: 21.2 inches of rain/year, 68 days of rain > 0.01", 41 days of rain > 0.1"
San Rafael, CA: 35.6 inches of rain/year, 66 days of rain > 0.01", 44 days of rain > 0.1"
Precipitation changes more locally than precipitation days, microclimates vary more in rain intensity than in rain frequency.
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