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What's the exact threshold for Mediterranean climates in terms of rainfall? Is it true that the wettest month has to see at least three times more rainfall than the driest month?
Wettest cold season month 3x the rainfall of the driest warm season month, with a max of either 30 or 40mm in the driest month.
Wettest cold season month 3x the rainfall of the driest warm season month, with a max of either 30 or 40mm in the driest month.
Is May considered a warm season month? If so, Southsea misses out on the Csb classification by a tiny margin, although the normals do end not long before some unusually wet UK summers.
These borderline climates are interesting, I assume there are periods when the climate actually transitions between different classifications. I'm sure Southsea for instance must have had a number of years where it could could be considered a Csb climate, although most years it will be Oceanic.
Is there any possibility that the next normals could see some southern coastal locations just make the grade?
Is May considered a warm season month? If so, Southsea misses out on the Csb classification by a tiny margin, although the normals do end not long before some unusually wet UK summers.
These borderline climates are interesting, I assume there are periods when the climate actually transitions between different classifications. I'm sure Southsea for instance must have had a number of years where it could could be considered a Csb climate, although most years it will be Oceanic.
Is there any possibility that the next normals could see some southern coastal locations just make the grade?
I think April/May to September/October would be considered the warm season.
Even London has seen 14 years at Csb in the last 30. The average is Cfb though as there are occasional extremely wet summer months like August 2004 to drive up the mean. The median rainfall is actually quite a bit lower than the mean here.
I think April/May to September/October would be considered the warm season.
Even London has seen 14 years at Csb in the last 30. The average is Cfb though as there are occasional extremely wet summer months like August 2004 to drive up the mean. The median rainfall is actually quite a bit lower than the mean here.
So what's the use in these classification systems if they're not representative of a typical year? Perhaps they should make it clear that certain climates are prone to swinging. Although that Csb claim in London seems hard to believe given how evenly distributed the rainfall is at Heathrow, it would require a huge deviation from the norm to get a Csb.
Although I guess Oceanic climates within the UK are unpredictable by their very nature. True Med climates do seem to hold to a very predictable pattern in terms of sunshine and rainfall, which is why you can plan a holiday in these places and be pretty sure of what weather you're going to get.
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