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.
Idk where you’re getting those numbers from nor do I have the data this map was made from but that part of Australia is arid, it can easily get up to 40 in summer and there are definitely parts of it that get down to -5 in winter
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.
There is even a “Southern California” zone 🤔
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
You’d be wanting this shitty map. Congrats now you know Victoria is temperate, what it doesn’t tell you is that we’re often wet and miserable like in England or that you’ll get snow in Tassie.
I much rather OPs map.
Is this accurate? How can it be so varied even on similar latitudes?
There’s this big cold place down south that sends massively cold air up to the bottom of Australia. Whereas the top is literally situated in the tropics.
Add to that we’re surrounded by multiple current and airstreams hitting each side of the continent. And the Mountain ranges along the east coast make the interior drier and hotter.
Oh and Ausstralia is big. If Europe can go from snow up north to beach holidays in the Mediterranean, why wouldn’t we also be as varied and more.
From England straight to Louisiana is quite a leap
Not necessarily. look at what Spain has in an area a bit smaller than Texas.
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?’
but when I was in Melbourne, there was a question of ‘wait? is this weather … shit?’
Ah you just gotta wait 3 minutes and it’ll change.
Melbourne is a tropical London.
“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.
