Would you say Springfield, Illinois is this type of climate? (hot, warm)

[Isleofpalms85]

Would you say that Springfield, Illinois is a cold, a cool, or a mild four season climate?

[wawa1992]

Average yearly temperature at 53 F / 12 C + all months have an average high above freezing = relatively mild.

Cool would be if the yearly temperature were about 4-9 C / 39-48 F, and cold would be sub-4 C / 39 F.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Can't call it cool or cold because it has warm to hot summers, and can't call it mild, because it has cold winter with especially poignant cold blasts. I call it what it is, Hot Summer Continental. Coldest month below 0°C and 6+ months 10°C+

[forgotten username]

I would call it mild, even if it makes little sense considering it's continental.



Personally I find it excellent.

[Isleofpalms85]

I realize it is a continental climate with cold winters and hot summers, but holistically, is it on the cold end of continental cool continental or more of a mild continental climate? I should have included the fact that Springfield Illinois is indeed a continental climate, I was just curious overall, averaged through the year which it is in your personal opinion

[forgotten username]

Originally Posted by Isleofpalms85

I realize it is a continental climate with cold winters and hot summers, but holistically, is it on the cold end of continental cool continental or more of a mild continental climate? I should have included the fact that Springfield Illinois is indeed a continental climate, I was just curious overall, averaged through the year which it is in your personal opinion

Well continental climates can be much colder than this in the winter, so it is definitely on the milder end for me. I mean, if a climate with a 2c average in January (like where I live) is considered subtropical then yeah, Springfield is mild continental by that definition. It's no Novosibirsk.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by forgotten username

Well continental climates can be much colder than this in the winter, so it is definitely on the milder end for me. I mean, if a climate with a 2c average in January (like where I live) is considered subtropical then yeah, Springfield is mild continental by that definition. It's no Novosibirsk.

I don't consider a 2°C mean in January to be subtropical, that's either temperate transitional or cool oceanic (depending on if it has 4+ months 18°C+ or not)

[Isleofpalms85]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

I don't consider a 2°C mean in January to be subtropical, that's either temperate transitional or cool oceanic (depending on if it has 4+ months 18°C+ or not)

I agree with you here.

[Isleofpalms85]

Personally, I would consider Springfield Illinois to be a cooler end four season continental or maybe a mildish four season continental climate during unusually warm years.

[srfoskey]

Winters look cold but relatively short, so I'd say it's fairly mild as far as continental climates go. As far as four-season climates go, it's pretty average, so I'd call it mild. Nashville has a warmer four-season climate, but I'd call it warm or hot and not mild.