From England straight to Louisiana is quite a leap
You’re not kidding. Arriving from the UK into Sydney airport - the heat was unbelievable, but when I was in Melbourne, there was a question of ‘wait? is this weather … shit?’
“A Tropical London” is a sexual maneuver that is, quite ironically, banned in Victoria.
The Australian state containing Melbourne, that is. You’re allowed to attempt it with consenting women named Victoria elsewhere.
Yeah, exactly, Melbourne weather is just your average UK.
Ok, sure, London gets 1.5k sunshine hours per year, Manchester 1.3k, Naples 2.3k, Rome 2.5k, and then Melbourne is also 2.3k. But those are minor differences of some 60-70% percent.
So, you, know, basically, Italy also has UK weather.
Have you been to Rome in summer? It’s lovely. A bit of rain now and then, a cool breeze in the evening. Some clouds during the day to help you not to get sunburned.
“Southern Nevada” and “Los Angles” are very different.
Thank you! Clearly the map maker has never been to Las Vegas and Los Angeles in the summer. VASTLY different. There’s a reason LA is the second biggest city in America and the weather is a huge part of it. Surfing weather vs Death Valley lite.
And I doubt that they have been to Spain. Central Spain is -5º in the winter to 40º+ in the summer, and dry AF. Central Spain is a plateau, elevation 700m, so it has no buffering from the coast. I very much doubt you’d have that in a coastal region.
What do you mean, they would obviously be measuring in terms of ranges of climates not specific climates and if you consider the size of the shaded regions it makes total sense that the variety of climates experienced in the region is similar to the variety of climates in la/Nevada. It would be unhelpful for a map of this size to have 1000 different regions all hyper specific. Large regions of Australia compared to large regions of other places
Los Angeles is not a desert. Los Angeles has an enormous agriculture industry surrounding the area - farms don’t work well in a desert. LA is a type of savanna, specifically an oak savanna, compared to the high, dry desert of southern Nevada. It isn’t a minor climate shift - they are two radically different environments. The only thing that they share in common is getting hot in the summer.
Okay? So the areas shaded experience a range of climates shared with Nevada and LA. Seems pretty reasonable considering the wide range of climates the map is representing. It would be unhelpful to have 1000 different shaded regions relating to 1000 different places. Also considering the size of the shaded area it’s not exactly surprising that the climate range would be on that scale
finland ☝️
The ACT does get a bit cold in winter, but I feel like it’s closer to England than Finland (if England was drier and actually got hot in summer anyway). We are after all talking minimums of -5 or -6 for the coldest days in winter and snow normally only settling on the tops of the nearby mountain range (and temporarily at that).
Would have been far better to get the name of the climate instead of some american region, or an ultra broad category like “north india”, which has the himalyas, plains, jungle, and much in between
South Texas is too vague. We talking coastal humidity, searing temperatures, flooding rains, drought, or all of the above?
As an American who understands other countries climates, I understood and appreciated this map perfectly fine, and because I understand the general climates of Australia I can understand what is meant by North India…and it’s not the himilayas
