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Agree....but Victoria, BC...milder, drier and sunnier than Vancouver can be considered
to be mediterranean, albeit a cool version.
And yeah my vote goes to Victoria, BC.
Vancouver is NOT a mediterranean climate!! lol. Whats next - my favourite meditterannean climate is Seattle! London! Paris!! good lord. Vancouver has pretty much the same climate as London or Paris - its maritime.
I'm a newbie to this but I threw up my hands when I read that Spokane is arguably a Mediterranean climate. Other than indicating "it's drier in the summer than the winter," it is not the most useful term.
Nonsense...the rainfall and sunshine hours speak for themselves
You don't understand climate classification, so it's understandable you would think this.
Rome has nearly a 1000 hours less sunshine, and about 220X the rainfall compared to Te Aviv in the driest 5 months, and is nearly 6C colder over the year.
Applying the same logic as your's, it would be foolishness to consider them the same type of climate - Rome is more like Seattle or Vancouver.
You don't understand climate classification, so it's understandable you would think this.
Rome has nearly a 1000 hours less sunshine, and about 220X the rainfall compared to Te Aviv in the driest 5 months, and is nearly 6C colder over the year.
Applying the same logic as your's, it would be foolishness to consider them the same type of climate - Rome is more like Seattle or Vancouver.
Joe, I think for this thread we should just stick with Csa (hot summer Mediterranean) climates. All the other ones are not really “Mediterranean” at least not in the sense that most people think of it as. In reality they just have a Mediterranean rainfall pattern, but that doesn’t mean they are “Mediterranean” it would be like calling all the humid “f” climates subtropical. And Mediterranean is just a geographical area with various climates so it shouldn’t even used as a name for a group of climates (s climates) it just adds more to the confusion. Instead I would call it dry summer, as in dry summer subtropical, dry summer marintime/oceanic, dry summer continental etc.
Nonsense...the rainfall and sunshine hours speak for themselves
Victoria, BC has nearly identical sunshine as Genoa, Italy over the course of the year and has almost half the rainfall and yet Genoa is on the Mediterranean itself. So how do they speak for themselves?
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Vancouver is NOT a mediterranean climate!! lol. Whats next - my favourite meditterannean climate is Seattle! London! Paris!! good lord. Vancouver has pretty much the same climate as London or Paris - its maritime.
Vancouver has a moderate Oceanic Climate that for a few months in the summer borders on a pleasant mediterranean like climate, however the rest of the year it gets a lot of rain, which makes it more oceanic than mediterranean. Oceanic climates generally have cool summers and mild winters, rather than extreme weather conditiond and are generally discribed as having comfortable tempretures. Vancouver and British Columbia are a beautiful part of the world, and whilst they have pleasant summers I wouldn't call the climate overall mediterranean.
Joe, I think for this thread we should just stick with Csa (hot summer Mediterranean) climates. All the other ones are not really “Mediterranean” at least not in the sense that most people think of it as. In reality they just have a Mediterranean rainfall pattern, but that doesn’t mean they are “Mediterranean” it would be like calling all the humid “f” climates subtropical. And Mediterranean is just a geographical area with various climates so it shouldn’t even used as a name for a group of climates (s climates) it just adds more to the confusion. Instead I would call it dry summer, as in dry summer subtropical, dry summer marintime/oceanic, dry summer continental etc.
It only adds confusion, if people don't understand the terminology and the system used.
C groups are already divided into categories based on temperature - dividing only the hot summer climates into a further category based on rainfall pattern, while ignoring the same /factors/division for cooler summer C climates, is bad science.
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