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I suspect Buenos Aires summers are very similar to NYC summers. Heat and Humidity is very similar. I grew up in Long Island, which is a few degrees cooler and I found the summers usually pleasant but sometimes too sticky.
NYC subways are oven-like in the summer.
Yeah, just checked. Buenos Aires summers are hotter and longer, but are overall not so different (considering NY is a much colder city).
While this are temperatures from May till September in NY:
As you can see, BA is hotter, but not that much hotter (considering how different this cities weather is in winter, for example) . NY is slightly more humid, but both cities are around the 70% in summer. The "feels like"in BA is scandalous (33-38 all Janaurys, every day).
As you can see, BA is hotter, but not that much hotter (considering how different this cities weather is in winter, for example) . NY is slightly more humid, but both cities are around the 70% in summer. The "feels like"in BA is scandalous (33-38 all Janaurys, every day).
The numbers for NYC looked a bit off for September…so I checked since I had time to kill here at work. The average high in Sept is 76 F not 74F. The difference is not large, but here are the official numbers for NYC according to their NWS:
It’s amazing that in the main three summer months…there is only about 2 F difference in the daily highs between NYC and BA…yet BA is located 500 closer to the equator.
It’s amazing that in the main three summer months…there is only about 2 F difference in the daily highs between NYC and BA…yet BA is located 500 closer to the equator.
Columbia, South Carolina is about the same latitude as Buenos Aires and both are on the east coast of the continent. Their mean temperatures are about the same (63°F) but Columbia's summers (92/72) are much hotter than Buenos Aires while the winters are much cooler (55/34; cooler than Mar de Plata!)
South America is just less extreme than North America
Thats true. One of the main things i learned in weather forum is how extreme North America is compared to SA, and how brutal is the summer there almost everywhere. While here, in Argentina, aside of the tropical northern places and the big cities in norther of the humid Pampa (including BA, Rosario, Cordoba, Mendoza) summers are mostly "cool".
Also, i imagined that winter in Patagonia was freezing, but compared to almost everywhere in USA, Patagonia could even be considered mild!!
Overall is like that, northern hemisphere haves a much biggest range in temperatures than SA.
It’s amazing that in the main three summer months…there is only about 2 F difference in the daily highs between NYC and BA…yet BA is located 500 closer to the equator.
Columbia, South Carolina is about the same latitude as Buenos Aires and both are on the east coast of the continent. Their mean temperatures are about the same (63°F) but Columbia's summers (92/72) are much hotter than Buenos Aires while the winters are much cooler (55/34; cooler than Mar de Plata!)
South America is just less extreme than North America
No doubt the two biggest landmass on the planet – Asia and North America are the kings of extreme temps in the world.
However, one of the interesting things I’ve read about and even noticed - when you compare a Northern American station and a South American station - the differences in monthly mean temps decrease with decreasing latitude – especially in the cold season. By this, I mean if you compare a South American and North American station at 55 latitude - you might find there is a 35 F difference in the coldest months….if you compare a North and South American station at 40 latitude the difference in the coldest months might be 25 F….and once you get down near 30 latitude the difference might be less than 5 F. The same would be true in East Asia I would guess. Meaning that Hong Kong and a location at similar latitude in South America would have mean temps in winter closer than a location in Manchuria and South American at similar latitude.
Your example of South Carolina above is a good one. Buenos Aries is on the coast – Columbia is not. However, if you find a station on the coast near the same latitude – you can see that monthly mean temps are not much different in the cold season. Take Buenos Aires and Charleston South Carolina –
I remember Trewartha used to have an index in his text that used a set of numbers to measure what he called the “Index on Continentality”. Apparently, while the annual temperature amplitude was the greatest in Asia and North American…the numbers decreased with decreasing latitude. I don’t remember if this occurred in both the cold and hot season, but my guess is that even the hotter summers of North America smoothed out with decreasing latitude.
wow, in my mind Usuahia is one of the coldest places ever (never been there though) all people that went say how brutal the cold is. Now that i know winters are like NY winters im not gonna be as scared as go there as i was before.
Mind you, summers are also very cold in usuahia.
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