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A) Miami: the only climate that's classified as "tropical" but has recorded snow: higher winter averages than Durban but far more standard deviation. Higher sunshine hours AND higher rainfall totals and better thunderstorms.
B) Durban: warm subtropical climate that's never seen a frost: summers not as hot and humid as Miami. Winter averages are cooler but more stable. Gets thunderstorms but not as many or as intense as Miami. Significantly less sunshine hours than Miami but about 2/3 of their rainfall total
A) Miami: the only climate that's classified as "tropical" but has recorded snow: higher winter averages than Durban but far more standard deviation. Higher sunshine hours AND higher rainfall totals and better thunderstorms.
Prove it. I'm talking about something from the NWS, not some idiotic newspaper headline from 1977 or GayJ1013's made up "climate data".
To be pedantic, Miami has never actually recorded snow officially: some light flurries were only "observed" by onlookers in some parts of the metro in Jan 1977.
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Which climate would you pick??
A) Miami: the only climate that's classified as "tropical" but has recorded snow: higher winter averages than Durban but far more standard deviation. Higher sunshine hours AND higher rainfall totals and better thunderstorms.
B) Durban: warm subtropical climate that's never seen a frost: summers not as hot and humid as Miami. Winter averages are cooler but more stable. Gets thunderstorms but not as many or as intense as Miami. Significantly less sunshine hours than Miami but about 2/3 of their rainfall total
Durban is incredibly warm for a city 30 degrees from the equator, but I'm surprised to see it has even less seasonal variation than Miami. I prefer Miami's climate for this reason: hotter summers and wetter.
Durban for cooler summers, less rain and humidity, but I would prefer Miami's sunshine hours.
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