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Vancouver easily; cold, overcast with drizzly rain much of the year. Low standard deviations.
Miami (despite not getting a "winter") is far more variable than any west coast climate could be; lots of variety of different clouds types, dazzling thunderstorms almost daily in summer, both one of the sunniest AND rainiest cities in America.
In winter, it has high standard deviations of temperature (average day January day is warmer than a typical July day in Vancouver and has beach/swimming weather on at least 80 percent of winter days, yet has had recorded ACCUMULATING SNOW in 1977 and snow flurries as recently as 2010). I don't believe there's any other climate in the world that can fit the criteria for tropical (average monthly temps) AND have recorded snow accumulation.
They also have had multiples hurricane landfalls, winter squalls that can bring severe weather or tornado activity etc.
Anyone who is voting for Vancouver because they get colder winters and a little bit of snow accumulation is not taking into account variability within a season and the different types of weather out there.
Last edited by ABrandNewWorld; 11-07-2015 at 10:41 AM..
In winter, it has high standard deviations of temperature in winter (average day January day is warmer than a typical July day in Vancouver and has beach/swimming weather on at least 80 percent of winter days, yet has had recorded ACCUMULATING SNOW in 1977 and snow flurries as recently as 2010).
I just looked it up and it looks it it was just a "trace" of accumulation in parts of Miami but it's still pretty amazing that snow actually has fallen in a place with average temperatures warm enough to be classified as tropical.
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