Which climate is closer to a tropical climate? (warm, record, temperatures)
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Brownsville. There's no contest here. Brownsville has warmer winter temperatures (and warmer summer temperatures, but that's irrelevant given that both summers are plenty tropical). And Brownsville's all time record high is in March
Interesting question. I'm going to go with Guangzhou purely because of the record lows. I think -11 C in Brownsville just doesn't look right in a quasi-tropical climate. Brownsville is of course hotter in terms of mean temps. and mean high temps., and even winter mean temps.
Edit: A mango tree could survive in Guangzhou, but not Brownsville.
Interesting question. I'm going to go with Guangzhou purely because of the record lows. I think -11 C in Brownsville just doesn't look right in a quasi-tropical climate. Brownsville is of course hotter in terms of mean temps. and mean high temps., and even winter mean temps.
Edit: A mango tree could survive in Guangzhou, but not Brownsville.
exactly . it doesn't matter if one on average is warmer. what matter more in this case is the threat of frost. and that's why brownsville can't grow any truly tropical plants.
Guangzhou. Brownsville's record lows are too low and a tropical plants will suffer if there is a hard freeze. Guangzhou is wetter and probably more humid aswell which tropical plants like.
Good one. By the Koppen Climate Classification System Brownsville is closer to the definition (winter months are nearer to 18°C). However, Guangzhou has much tamer record lows, and a more tropically in-keeping summer monsoon.
Overall it's a bit of a tie. Seeing as it's never even gone below freezing I'd give Guanzhou my vote.
Mangoes grow and fruit in Brownsville without a problem. There's even an orchard in the area with it's own mango festival. Brownsville can't grow any tropical plants? Royal palms, foxtail palms, flame trees etc. are everywhere. Even a few coconuts They might die in a 50 year freeze...but they do grow.
Even with the nasty record lows, Brownsville is still zone 10 long-term (average extreme minimum temperature for the last 15 years is 35F). Using 1981-2010 data, Brownsville averages 1.8 days a year at or below 32F and Port Isabel averages 1 day.
I would say Guangzhou due to being much wetter. Brownsville is borderline semi-arid. The temperature difference is pretty marginal with Brownsville's slightly warmer winters being offset by Guangzhou's much warmer record lows. Rainfall is much more significant in this case.
Good one. By the Koppen Climate Classification System Brownsville is closer to the definition (winter months are nearer to 18°C). However, Guangzhou has much tamer record lows, and a more tropically in-keeping summer monsoon.
Overall it's a bit of a tie. Seeing as it's never even gone below freezing I'd give Guanzhou my vote.
Brownsville's record low was in 1899. The 1899 cold wave didn't follow any rules. It was ferocious. Usually Brownsville doesn't even get a frost for several years on end.
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They might die in a 50 year freeze...but they do grow.
