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I've heard from SST's can drop to around 60 F/16 C midsummer around Sebastian Inlet, FL in south-central FL on the Atlantic coast.
Very counter-intuitive to a place with average summer monthly lows of 75+ F/24+ C.
Factoring the humidity, it's apparently common for the air to be blazing hot while the sea is ice-cold.
Wow, I had no idea upwelling could reduce temps by that much.
Southern hemisphere climates are not necessarily cooler for their relative latitude than northern hemisphere locations. There is less variation between winter and summer temperatures due to the fact that the southern hemisphere has far less continental land-mass than the northern hemisphere. This is a well known fact. Sure many coastal locations in Australia and also much of NZ has far cooler summer maxima than many equivalent places in the NH, this is due to the same reasons. But they also generally have much milder winters. Auckland, NZ has cool summers by anybody's reconing but its winters being mild makes it up for it and it has a mean temperature of 15.1°C. To compare with somewhere in the northern hemisphere the same distance from the equator, Virginia Beach in the USA has far hotter summers but colder winters and its mean temperature is 15.4°C, nearly identical.
Well, the SH has a slightly lower mean temp than the NH. I guess this is due to the large polar landmass (Antarctica) in the SH.
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I have to say…you do seem obsessed with jumping on anything that Wavehunter says trying to prove him/her wrong. Also, you also always seem to try to put down our country. You seem to always try to paint the USA has having such a bad climate compared to the Southern Hemisphere.
Here is YOUR comment on page 4:
Yet, we clearly saw a map (early summer map) of a SST of 32 F in the Gulf of Mexico. I know for a fact that SST in the Caribbean are often 32 C around the resorts and through the Bahamas. Looks like you might have been wrong too.
Again, show me the evidence. I don't remember even ONE time I put down the USA's climate. What's with all these accusations all of a sudden? I don't even talk to wavehunter that much.
FYI I never denied it ever gets to 32C in some parts of the Gulf or the Caribbean. All I'm doing is holding wavehunter accountable for his comments (now and in other threads) when he makes statements without any inifo to back them up. You might be his buddy, but he comes in thinking he's such an expert and that he can get away with anything. Wavehunter said something that was wrong and I proved he was wrong. Whether he admits it or not is up to him. Case closed.
Why would I always be trying to put down the USA, I'm going there later this year and have always been rather obessessed with your country (not so much the nation, more the geography/culture). That's the reason I'm even on CD.
The huge tracts of ocean between Antarctica and anywhere else ameliorate any cold associated with it. If the SH had similar landmasses in polar/arctic regions as the NH, the SH's corresponding winters would probably be slightly colder than the NH is now.
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The huge tracts of ocean between Antarctica and anywhere else ameliorate any cold associated with it. If the SH had similar landmasses in polar/arctic regions as the NH, the SH's corresponding winters would probably be slightly colder than the NH is now.
Did you know Siberia is colder than the North Pole?
Did you know Siberia is colder than the North Pole?
Yes...... and what I'm saying is if we had NH's landmasses mirrored in the SH, it would be colder than the NH is now, simply because Antarctica is much colder than the Arctic. When you get that antarctic cold penetrating nearby regions, watch out....
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Yes...... and what I'm saying is if we had NH's landmasses mirrored in the SH, it would be colder than the NH is now, simply because Antarctica is much colder than the Arctic. When you get that antarctic cold penetrating nearby regions, watch out....
Yes, that would be something. Antarctica also has an average height of over 2,000 metres above sea-level, making it the highest continent on average (little known fact).
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Wavehunter said something that was wrong and I proved he was wrong. Whether he admits it or not is up to him. Case closed.
