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Subarctic with summers that average 67 F in September and never gone below 30 F in the that month???
Semi-arid with 42.44 inches of rainfall???
Warm-summer with July with a 74.5 F mean???
No option for humid subtropical when Köppen classified it as such???
I'd call it subtropical-leaning semi-continental given that it is in the zone that gets some snow cover but lacks a reliable one. It is more of a Dfa than St Louis and Louisville, but less than Chicago.
The reason I did not include the "Humid Subtropical" option is because many modern climatologists prefer to use the 0C threshold rather than the -3C threshold that a few climatologists still use, as for the other reasons for this being a failure of a poll is because I realize that there may be more broad opinions than my own.
So now anywhere that doesn't have constant snow cover is subtropical? Lol
I swear it's one extreme or the other with the people on this forum. It's either if the climate drops below 70 F even one time in the entire year it's not subtropical because it's too "cold", or if it doesn't receive 500 million cm of snow a winter it's subtropical because it's not cold enough to be continental. Lol.
I think it's a solid Dfa - under my system, it's a CFBA, translating to a humid continental climate (albeit on the warmer end).
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Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220
I consider Indianapolis in my climate system Chb (Humid Temperate Hot Summer), Temperate which requires the warmest month have a mean 74.0°F+, is a zone between Subtropical and Continental in my system
^ Another gem from the FC1220 climate classification. You should make a map of the world's climates per your classification.
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I swear it's one extreme or the other with the people on this forum. It's either if the climate drops below 70 F even one time in the entire year it's not subtropical because it's too "cold", or if it doesn't receive 500 million cm of snow a winter it's subtropical because it's not cold enough to be continental. Lol.
And still I called just it semi-continental with subtropical leanings ffs. In effect a hot-summer climate with a winter between 2 and -3.
Some people are just hopeless when jumping to conclusions
The reason I did not include the "Humid Subtropical" option is because many modern climatologists prefer to use the 0C threshold rather than the -3C threshold that a few climatologists still use, as for the other reasons for this being a failure of a poll is because I realize that there may be more broad opinions than my own.
But subarctic indicates a climate where the soil is frozen like half the year, and a semi-arid climates doesn't have frequent massive summer thunderstorms
It's certainly a heck lot closer to subtropical than subarctic that's for sure. Heck even the mild-summer and four-season climate I live in is some way above subarctic with five months above 50 F...
What subtropical leanings does Indianapolis have? It's just a continental climate on the warmer end of the spectrum, nothing else.
Continental scale:
Indianapolis - warmer end of spectrum
Minneapolis - middle of spectrum
Winnipeg - colder end of spectrum
Summer means at 24 C/75 F
Winter daytime highs above freezing by some margin
Only one month below even -0.2 C in mean temps
7 months above 10 C.
Usually neither July nor August fall below 12 C all month
Subzero nights are quite unusual
Of course it is highly continental in many aspects, but to say downright not subtropically influenced would be false.
Also where would you place a climate like mine on the scale?
23/13 July and high 0/-5 in January
Warm or middle end? Should one stricly look at annual temps for that? Yearly mean here is around 7 C, whereas Indianapolis is almost 12 C, Minneapolis at 8 C but obviously with much colder winters than we have. Would it still be fair to lump together Eastern Sweden and Minneapolis in spite of our climate being such maritime?
The OP is obsessed with the climates of Indianapolis and Minneapolis. Dude has been making threads on them since like 2013.
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