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Location: João Pessoa,Brazil(The easternmost point of Americas)
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Mild oceanic climate for me,but you can see how cold the Southern Ocean are,its at the same latitude as Azores and has much milder summer and colder winters.
Extremely borderline, but since the February mean is 17 C and the coldest month mean is 11 C it should enable a lot of subtropical plants. The general rule is that winters are more important than summers for those things. Plant hardiness is ultra high there - higher than in Tampa Bay and Orlando. So only because of those winters, for me it is a cool subtropical climate.
Can it grow subtropical vegetation though? For example could you grow citrus here?
I'd guess the coolest night in a particular year should fall to 7 C based on its extreme maritime features. That is extremely mild. I'm not an expert on citruses, but surely they'd be able to thrive in that climate?
Having said that, this climate is limited to the low-lying coastline. Up on the mountain, frosts are definitely frequent and therefore oceanic.
Location: João Pessoa,Brazil(The easternmost point of Americas)
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Originally Posted by lommaren
I'd guess the coolest night in a particular year should fall to 7 C based on its extreme maritime features. That is extremely mild. I'm not an expert on citruses, but surely they'd be able to thrive in that climate?
Having said that, this climate is limited to the low-lying coastline. Up on the mountain, frosts are definitely frequent and therefore oceanic.
Subtropical plants would have an slow growth there due to cool summers.
And yes,since it are an extremely oceanic climate,up on the mountain there are no summer and snow/frost even in summer.
Even in Southern South America that happens,if you see the Andes around 40-50S,there are a permanent snow cover at relative low altitudes,if you compare with North America for example,there are cities like Calgary at 50N and 1000m of altitude damn,at this conditions here in Southern Hemisphere everything are frozen and snow covered even in Summer.
Very oceanic to me. Places like this obviously grow subtropical plants. This is the case with Cherbourg, France, which has really cool summers but almost never sees a frost.
Subtropical to me means warm and long summers with relatively mild winters.
For me subtropical is so marginal in this case that if January or August had even been 0.2 C cooler I'd have classified it as oceanic. If summer is between 17-18 C winters have to be above 11 C to qualify. If 18-20 C it's enough with 10 C. If summer is 20-22 C it is enough with 5 C because the heat effect is so severe. If above 22 C anything down to 2 C will do.
Solidly oceanic. The lame summer highs and low sunshine restricts a lot of subtropical species.
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