Bermuda Climate

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Bermuda Climate

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Bermuda seems to have a very warm climate given its latitude ( 32.3 north) and being a group of very small Islands out in the Atlantic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda

Weather conditions look very breezy for the start of the Americas Cup
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Interesting place; I expect I could cope with the climate for a little while ;)
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A comparison between kaitaia, NZ ( lat 35.6 S) and Hamilton, Bermuda (32.2 N )

Kaitaia February average temperature range 15.5C -24.6C, July 8.5 -15.6C
Bermuda July 24.1 - 29.2C, Feb 15.5C - 19.9C
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The gulf stream certainly provides a lot of heat then
I read somewhere that the warm east Australian current has brought to nd much warmer climate in the past.....I.E it exit east much further south
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Yes the gulf stream will play a big part. Also I am guessing Bermuda will get a lot of humid southerly wind flows as normal weather pattern.
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My grandparents (Mothers side) lived there for a couple of years in the 1970's and liked the climate, although they did say it could be very humid in late summer. Great link about the Bermudan climate and plenty of information on the hurricanes that have visited the island:

http://www.bermuda-online.org/climateweather.htm
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Bermuda is within the natural growing range of the coconut palm which certainly means tropical climate.
The furthest south the coconut grows in Australia is Rockhampton which is latitude 23 deg.
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looks like the windiest day of the week for Bermuda will be the first race?
https://www.windfinder.com/forecast/bermuda_airport
(but also they have a big gap of racing after the first 2 days too I see)
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NZstorm wrote:Bermuda is within the natural growing range of the coconut palm which certainly means tropical climate.
The furthest south the coconut grows in Australia is Rockhampton which is latitude 23 deg.
And in New Zealand at latitude 29.27 degrees south! (Raoul Island)
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The above palm is said to be gone now.
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I have heard of palm enthusiast trying to cultivate a coconut palm in Northland but of coarse it dd not survive.

Rockhampton is the southerly extent of the natural range in Aussie but I suspect you could cultivate them in a very sheltered spot on the Gold Coast. And I was wrong about coconut palms in Bermuda, they are not endemic, they were introduced by settlers.
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