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Yes, it can be defined like that, but that's not how most people define winter.
In China, winter is defined as mean temperature <10 C. Ya'an has three solid winter months. Generally speaking, people consider it winter if the daily high temperature is just around 10 C, common sense.
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Originally Posted by Palider
To define whether a climate is or isn't dry you use precipitation, not rainy days.
Wrong. We must consider evaporation too. I do not have the humidity data for Ya'an, but the nearby city of Chengdu has 80%+ humidity for winter months, so it is VERY HUMID in winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu#Climate
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Most people and the Köppen Climate Classification system consider summers where the mean temperature is above 22°C to be hot.
Wrong. In China, summer is defined as monthly mean higher than 22 C. If it is lower than 22 C, there is no summer at all. A daily high of 30 C is normal for subtropical places, not hot at all. Only those who are used to cool climates consider 22 C to be hot. In fact rice will not grow with that temperature.
Seems like I need to learn how the Chinese classify climates.
No need to learn that, but keep it in mind that most people in the world live in tropical and subtropical zones. We should not consider London summer the norm.
To define whether a climate is or isn't dry you use precipitation, not rainy days.
Not very useful in the real world though. Warmer sunnier climates with a higher rainfall on fewer days, will always feel drier than a cooler, cloudier climate with lower rainfall on more days.
Any methodology that gives an opposite view, is misleading.
That depends on how you define each season. It doesn't seem to have a winter to me.
So, dry "winters" and super humid and hot summers. E.
It amazes me that people still think winter is defined by a temperature threshold. It's not. It's just the time of year with lowest temperatures and shortest days. Unless a place is Equatorial, it has all 4 seasons. As for the climate, it sucks. E from me. Way too rainy cloudy and humid.
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