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For this battle, I picked cities on either side of the Gulf of Mexico at about the same latitude, Corpus Christi and Tampa.
Corpus Christi features a subtropical climate that is subject to some continental influences in the winter from the north but also from the Desert Southwest in the summer. Its rain is fairly evenly distributed and the maximum sun hours occur during July as you would expect a beach town. The spring and fall feature the max precip and winter and mid-summer are much drier.
Tampa features a subtropical climate that has much less of a continental influence, which can only occur in the winter. Precipitation is maximum in the summer with almost daily thunderstorms. Precip is much lower in the fall, winter, and spring. Max sun hours occurs in the late spring.
Record low/high of -12F/107F in Corpus and record low/high of -8/99 in Tampa so not really that far off.
Tampa has 16 rainy days in August but Corpus never exceeds 9 rainy days in a month. Corpus gets 31.73" of rain and Tampa gets 46.3".
I personally think the weather along the Texas coast is far superior to the Florida coast because of lower humidity and the fact that dry Desert Southwest air can occasionally penetrate. The beaches in Tampa are much better but I feel like climatically it's no contest.
Anyways, there is no "desert air" any time in summer in Corpus at the low levels; if there was, there would be times of low dewpoints. Instead, all that is present is just a mid/upper level "cap" to suppress convection, even though the lower levels feature more than enough humidity.
There is a summer wet-season in South Texas, just that it is focused in August and September. The "cap" presents along the South Texas coast, on average, from mid July to mid August; from mid August onward through September, a strong maximum of rain occurs. Quite similar to Dakar in Senegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar#...hy_and_climate
Anyways, there is no "desert air" any time in summer in Corpus at the low levels; if there was, there would be times of low dewpoints. Instead, all that is present is just a mid/upper level "cap" to suppress convection, even though the lower levels feature more than enough humidity.
There is a summer wet-season in South Texas, just that it is focused in August and September. The "cap" presents along the South Texas coast, on average, from mid July to mid August; from mid August onward through September, a strong maximum of rain occurs. Quite similar to Dakar in Senegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar#...hy_and_climate
That looks nothing like Senegal. Senegal is virtually rainless in the winter, Corpus Christi gets a good amount of rain. Also, Corpus has a secondary maximum in the spring (April/May). For instance May has more rain than August, so August is not a "rainy month". September is the only anomaly and that is due to tropical storms being able to penetrate the western Gulf that time of year.
Senegal has a Savannah type climate but Corpus Christi has a Humid Subtropical climate that features adequate rain in every month. There really is no dry season.
If there's gonna be discomfort to the level of a CC summer, there may as well be storms.
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