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1.) Anyone can create a "Climate Battle". In the title of the post, as has been custom, insert verbiage such as:
Climate Battle: Minneapolis vs. St. Paul
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OK, this isn't a battle but a semi-fictional hybrid climate. Lólez de Dalcay is a hybrid of Dallol and López de Micay. Temperatures are an average of the two. Rainfall stats don't seem to be available for Dallol, but are negligible so I've just halved the figures of the Colombian town. As Dallol holds the record for highest average temperature and López is about as hot as an extremely wet climate gets in present reality, Lólez de Dalcay is both extremely hot and very wet.
Perhaps surprisingly, due to Dallol's seasonality, Lólez's coolest months don't get as hot as the hottest rainy months in the hottest tropical climates (eg Valledupar). However the hottest month's easily exceed them.
Would Lólez be habitable, or would wet bulb temperatures in the hottest months be above the critical 35 C that is lethal to humans due to inability to lose heat through sweating? Would rainforests grow in Lólez or would the excessive heat interfere with plant growth despite the abundant rain?
OK, this isn't a battle but a semi-fictional hybrid climate. Lólez de Dalcay is a hybrid of Dallol and López de Micay. Temperatures are an average of the two. Rainfall stats don't seem to be available for Dallol, but are negligible so I've just halved the figures of the Colombian town. As Dallol holds the record for highest average temperature and López is about as hot as an extremely wet climate gets in present reality, Lólez de Dalcay is both extremely hot and very wet.
Perhaps surprisingly, due to Dallol's seasonality, Lólez's coolest months don't get as hot as the hottest rainy months in the hottest tropical climates (eg Valledupar). However the hottest month's easily exceed them.
Would Lólez be habitable, or would wet bulb temperatures in the hottest months be above the critical 35 C that is lethal to humans due to inability to lose heat through sweating? Would rainforests grow in Lólez or would the excessive heat interfere with plant growth despite the abundant rain?
OK, this isn't a battle but a semi-fictional hybrid climate. Lólez de Dalcay is a hybrid of Dallol and López de Micay. Temperatures are an average of the two. Rainfall stats don't seem to be available for Dallol, but are negligible so I've just halved the figures of the Colombian town. As Dallol holds the record for highest average temperature and López is about as hot as an extremely wet climate gets in present reality, Lólez de Dalcay is both extremely hot and very wet.
Perhaps surprisingly, due to Dallol's seasonality, Lólez's coolest months don't get as hot as the hottest rainy months in the hottest tropical climates (eg Valledupar). However the hottest month's easily exceed them.
Would Lólez be habitable, or would wet bulb temperatures in the hottest months be above the critical 35 C that is lethal to humans due to inability to lose heat through sweating? Would rainforests grow in Lólez or would the excessive heat interfere with plant growth despite the abundant rain?
It's certainly livable. Looking at the average lows, the dewpoints can't be that much higher than those of Hong Kong. Not sure about the ability to grow rainforests, though.
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Semi-fictional climate: Lólez de Dalcay
