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Originally Posted by tom77falcons
That figure shows the unique "subtropical" climates of Texas. Where else on earth at these latitudes and elevations would see temps like that? No not China, China has colder averages but just look at a jet stream model. China is far more consistent than N. America. The jest stream just does not meander much over there but as soon as it crosses the Pacific all hell breaks loose.
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It depends the way look at it though. For example, this was Wuhan, the analog of Austin, Texas, on February
2019:
https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynr...REV&enviar=Ver
and on January 2018:
https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynr...REV&enviar=Ver
As you can see, while in N. America the "peak" of the cold snaps are sharper (at least on
average, I have the intuition that in absolute terms the things may be somewhat even), in the other hand central China can have large periods of sustained cold with very below normal temps, as shown in those tables. Average maxs for January and February in Wuhan are 8.1ºC and 10.7ºC, respectively.