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Old 12-02-2016, 09:03 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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How much do average temperatures decrease with an increase in altitude?
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Old 12-02-2016, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Buenos Aires and La Plata, ARG
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According to thermodynamics, i think it decrease by 1ÂşC(1.8F) per 150 meters(492 ft) of elevation.
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Old 12-02-2016, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Marlaver's correct.

I made a thread on this (can't find it now) and most of the answers were akin to his.
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Old 12-03-2016, 12:26 AM
 
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Under normal conditions, the rate is 6.4'C/km.
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Old 12-03-2016, 12:48 PM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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We are at just under 600', and always 5-6 degrees lower than down in the lowlands in fall/winter but a few degrees hotter in summer.
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Old 12-03-2016, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Foreignorland 58 N, 17 E.
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We are at just under 600', and always 5-6 degrees lower than down in the lowlands in fall/winter but a few degrees hotter in summer.
Inland PNW is a special cookie in that sense though. Nowhere else except in European Russia can 30C summers be recorded so northerly.
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