Continental Climates

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 14/09/2004 21:01

It must be nice in place ie in the States to get 32 deg temps still in mid September,It would be like Auckland getting that in mid March.They have such long summers

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Tue 14/09/2004 22:01

My father has just gone on another trip to Canada... he goes up there a fair bit. He was there is July and at one stage had to dig a hole - not fun with permafrost... and he was in the 'mild' south of Canada.

One day I'd love to go to the northwest regions... -32, snow, ice

Cheers,

G

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 14/09/2004 22:42

Those places seem to make the anticyclones go more poleward to Look at the south africa weather map and see how far the high pressure goes south they mustnt experience west or SW winds often

Unlike here they move north as they go east

Manukau heads obs · Wed 15/09/2004 08:36

you should be living in california michael
i lived there for 1 year
only 3 months of any weather, the rest of the year is light winds and sunshine (this is the inland sacramento valley I am talking about)

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 15/09/2004 08:56

Sounds wonderful

I lived only in places exposed to the west but when I been on holiday somewhere else I really appreciated the lack of awful weather

Manukau heads observer wrote:you should be living in california michael
i lived there for 1 year
only 3 months of any weather, the rest of the year is light winds and sunshine (this is the inland sacramento valley I am talking about)

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 15/09/2004 10:59

I spent a couple of weeks working near Sacramento on a Mellon Farm. It was August and the Temp got above 35c each day,clear fine days. The farmer I worked for was a very unhappy weather watcher but grew up in Kansas and had some good Tornado stories.