Rate the climate: Serrekunda, The Gambia (snowfall, hot, record, temperatures)

[Randomguy1234]

Serrekunda gets less extremes of heat and cold than Banjul, Serrekunda's record low in May is 19°C compared with Banjul's 0°C

Serrekunda's record high is also 42.2 vs 47.0 for Banjul.

Serrekunda is sunnier and wetter than Banjul.

I give it an F. Too hot all year with only occasional delightful days. Sunshine is good though.

[Bisfbath]

I gave it a D. It's too hot to be ideal and the wet season is much too compressed.

I would reserve F for climates that are always brutally cold, either Antarctic climates or if Antarctica is excluded as it has no normal settlements, then some Arctic climates. No present climate is as lethally hot as the coldest climates are lethally cold, though it is predicted that some climates that are both extremely hot and humid could become lethally so later in the century with climate change if wet bulb temperatures start to exceed 35 C. I would give them an F if they developed, the areas at risk seem to around the Persian Gulf and parts of India.

[Eman Resu VIII]

D+ It's too much of the same thing all year, a cool season of some sort would make it better.

[deneb78]

Solid A. Excellent climate
It would get an A+ if the rainy season wasn't so wet.

[gordo]

Pretty much a C. It's too hot all year round and the wet season is too short.

[Omegaraptor]

D+

Dry season is too extreme and a bit too hot.

I only give Fs to true climactic garbage like Oymyakon, far northern Canada, Dallol, Mecca, Antarctica, and the Southern Ocean islands.

[arcleo]

D- because it needs a cool season and the dry season is too long. Worse than Singapore.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

B, loses points for the summer wet season being as wet (and I imagine humid) as it is

[wawa1992]

This is going to be bad.

Grade: 10.5% / Z

Winter mean / Summer mean / Seasonal range / Precip / Seasonal lag / Snowfall / Record range*

0 / 98 / 20 / 88 / 33 / 0 / 8

The raw score for this climate is solidly in the F range - 43.8% - with NO winters and NO snow. The long, totally rainless dry season turns a F-grade climate into a Z-grade climate. Without the dry season, this climate would grade 27.9% / F.