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It's a good threshold for the aim of this thread. Even if a climate does get snow, when it melts each and every day it feels pointless. The last several winters have been much warmer than normal here and it's just a pain when it melts all the time. A good stable snowpack is what makes a winter "real" and that needs sub-freezing highs.
For people saying 10°C is real winter, please. It was 7°C here this morning.
Some of our winters have had little or no snow and yet the temperatures could be in the minus 20 or 30 C for weeks on end. If the 0C temperature for one month in the winter is the basis for winter then where I live would have winter every year, though this past winter might have a bit a problem with that as we had a warm dry winter and have had mostly a cooler than normal wetter summer. Normally two to four months would qualify for a winter based on the temperature.
We can also have -40C as a low in the winter and plus 40 for a high in the summer. We can also have -20 and +20 in a two day period.
It's a good threshold for the aim of this thread. Even if a climate does get snow, when it melts each and every day it feels pointless. The last several winters have been much warmer than normal here and it's just a pain when it melts all the time. A good stable snowpack is what makes a winter "real" and that needs sub-freezing highs.
For people saying 10°C is real winter, please. It was 7°C here this morning.
Yeah - so some people might say you don't have a real summer because it can get cold there all year.
It's stupid - there is no such thing as a 'real' winter or 'real' summer - it's all relative to where you live and what you're used to.
Oh I know, but Syracuse blows the competition away with snowfall. Practically snows everyday in the winter there. Ahhhhhhh lake effect....such fun times!
In addition to snowing almost everyday in March and April
Yeah - so some people might say you don't have a real summer because it can get cold there all year.
It's stupid - there is no such thing as a 'real' winter or 'real' summer - it's all relative to where you live and what you're used to.
Maybe real is the wrong word to use but having a snowpack vs not having one is a pretty obvious dividing line. People of Rio de Janeiro call anything below 21°C frigid. Should we now consider this cold and wintry not to hurt their feelings? In the context of this thread a line has to be drawn and it's not 10°C T-shirt weather.
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Maybe real is the wrong word to use but having a snowpack vs not having one is a pretty obvious dividing line. People of Rio de Janeiro call anything below 21°C frigid. Should we now consider this cold and wintry not to hurt their feelings? In the context of this thread a line has to be drawn and it's not 10°C T-shirt weather.
21C arent frigid to them,they got 9c low this last June,thats the real cold to them.
Does anyone know the definition of winter? It's the time of year with the coolest temps and shortest days not when the temperature is below X degrees. Therefore everywhere has a winter and terms like real winter or true winter are pointless-everywhere has them except somewhere Equatorial.
Rochester defiantly has a "true winter". Trust me I live here.
Rochester has a winter and a half, hundred inches of snow! It's almost mindblowing
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