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Nobody is. NYC has all means above freezing solely because of the massive UHI. Go towards you in Stamford CT and it has two months below freezing and 100 freezes a year.
If Köppen would make his classification today, the treshold for subtropical would probably be 5C means in the coldest month.
5c as the coldest month seems fine to me as a limit between continental and oceanic / mediterranean / subtropical, so it will prevent cities like Vienna, Zagreb or Prague to be labeled as oceanic but someone will say NYC is not Winnipeg. Can we create a "super continental" classification for places with winters below .-10c or -15c and still warm summers above 18-20c ?
Below this latitude in the south it's tundra, the Drake Passage, the furious fifties and the screaming sixties. At my latitude in the southern hemisphere there's a polar climate.
Why southern hemisphere appear to be "superior" is that there's hardly any landmass below the 40th parallel. Or well, there is - the Antarctic.
Eh? Omyakon is on the 63rd parallel north. Maquinchao is at the latitude of Rome.
Well it's superior to me because I hate continental climates. I'd take Ushuaia over Moscow any day.
I'd also take Maquinchao over Chicago any day. Far superior climate IMO.
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The image below compares a "low" Maquinchao (80 meters compared to the actual 880), Viedma, which is a coastal city at the same latitude, and other two cities at similar latitudes. As you can see, there's nothing continental about Maquinchao.
This Record low for Maquinchao is Wrong,the 1960-1990 record was -25.6C,but in 17/07/1991 the town went down to -30s,its because Maquinchao dont have Moderation since its in the Center of Patagonia and in a very dry place,who means it can be very hot or very cold.
Are you joking, right? So, Shanghai is continental, by your definition?
Shanghai is subtropical. 4.8C = 5C. And Shanghai is a special case, as both other winter months are way above 5C, and all 12 months have lows above freezing.
If I would make a climate classification I wouldn't set treshold temperatures in stone anyway. The overall features of the climates matter. If it's not about law, I don't like very strict and undebatable definitions at all.
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