Hello all! I hope you enjoyed this presentation of the Humid Subtropical Climate - the most heavily populated of all climate zones. If you're one of the many people that live in these zones, say hi and tell us what you think of the weather there!
Wow! What a terrific video! I just discovered your series today, and gosh, I can’t thank you enough for making it. Köppen is sometimes hard for neophytes to understand, and when I start going all “Köppen-climate geeky” around my friends, they glaze over in seconds. But you’ve made learning about the Köppen system easy and fun! Now I can simply send them a link.☺ Simply wonderful work, and a major contribution to the world of documentaries. Can’t wait to watch the rest… As regards living in a Cfa zone: for many years I lived in Lugano, Switzerland, where I taught at an international school. Although Lugano itself classifies as Cfb - as do all the foothills of the Alps in Italy, as well as most of the Apennine mountains down to just below Rome - I spent most of my weekends in Milan, and most of my summers in Venice. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Italy . Generally speaking guidebooks advise against spending the summer in Venice. But they could not be more wrong. I would spend summers in Venice precisely in order to escape the heat and humidity of the Cfa climate in the Po Valley. Sweltering Cfa summer heat and humidity also proved true in Lugano, despite its Cfb classification. The summers in Lugano were unbearable. Whereas in Venice in July and August a breeze usually blows from the Adriatic towards the land. I always had a room somewhere on the Guidecca, the island that’s located right on the lagoon, and that gets the best breeze in summer. Furthermore in Venice in the summer it usually rains for a few hours in the morning, and clears up by mid-day. The rain alone would wash away the heat and humidity. So the morning rain, combined with the constant breeze, made July and August in Venice heavenly! All best wishes, L
I am from southern Brazil, state of Paraná, here we usually have a 0°c during winter nights and mornings, usually going to 8°c or even 12°c during the day. In summer, morning starts at 10°c or 12°c and goes to 25°c or 28°c, i have only seen it going up to 30°c or more just 5 times in 25 years. Its nice to have a bit of ice during winter and also nice to have a good temperature to go to a river in the summer. My city middle temperature for a year is 17°c.
I'm from Northern China on the edge between Cwa and Dwa on the Yellow River. The climate change seems to have been pushing it more and more towards Cwa, with hotter rainier summers and milder winters.
I’m from chicago where the temperatures are cold January through March but late January to mid and February is when we get the coldest weather. March starts off either cold or mild. In March and April, I could have snow one day and then after a day or 2, 70+ degrees. Summers are really humid but can get really hot and rain can be a bit scary. Recently, we’ve seen at least 1 60 degree day or night every month out of the year. Yes I said night. It’ll be 30 degrees in the daytime and by 9 or 10pm, it’s 60 degrees and then back 30 degrees by the more of the day. This happens in late January and mid February before we’re about to get dumped with a bunch of snow. We used to get a decent amount of snow on and off from November to March and drastically warm up by the end of March and or early April. This year, we had 3 big snowstorms which is kinda record breaking because we usually only have 2 and sometimes one with a few days of extreme cold in the negatives. Glad it’s gonna be another heatwave this week with temperatures close to 100 degrees.
@@gnjc3480 The Siberian pressure system is somewhat unpredictable and brutal. Places within the tropics in China can yield frost as a result, in spite of the sun being directly above
I'm from England (Oceanic), but I currently live in Japan, and I must say, the humid part of HUMID subtropical really stands out! XD But I do appreciate the milder autumn/winter (for me, it feels about one to two months behind). Also, the prefecture I live in is interesting, because the south, where I live, is Cfa, but the north is actually a Continental climate, so they get WAY more snow up there, the difference is kinda insane, haha
@@Geodiode Yeah... summer in Japan is... certainly something, I'll give it that. Whenever you go outside, it's like being smothered in a hot damp blanket. You go outside to check the post quickly, and by the time you're back in your nice air-conditioned apartment, you have to throw your clothes in the wash, cos they're drenched in sweat! ^^; And unlike in England, having a thunderstorm doesn't "wash away" the humidity: it adds to it! D:
Same here in NYC if you go in the south of the city it's classified as cfa and if you go up to the north of the city it's have a humid continental because in the north is the coldest place in the city!
@@LAMarshall I grew up in Washington, D.C. and you're describing summer in that part of the world. Especially how the summer thunderstorms don't wash away the humidity but add to it. I lived in England for a year and that was ONE thing I actually missed about the summer in England--there is no hot or humid anything. It was rather joyless. Fun fact: Washington climate in the summer was so oppressively humid and hot that the first British diplomats to the city got "tropical hazard pay" similar to being posted in India, Singapore, Brazil or the Caribbean. LOL.
Glad you mentioned Guadalajara, Mex, my hometown, due long dry season, monsoon rain is much seen and expected every june almost as it was a gift from heaven. Love your videos cheers!
Hello from subtropical North Carolina. I moved from the high dry climate of Denver, Colorado to the humid subtropical climate of North Carolina (NC) last year and there has definitely been an adjustment. I love how green it is in NC and the forests are positively gorgeous. From what little I have seen, winter can get cold, but not as cold, and it actually rains instead of snowing most of the time. However, the heat and humidity of summer take some getting used to. During the summer it never really feels cool at night or in the morning in NC because of the high humidity levels. It appears to get hotter during the day in Denver, but seems to cool down more at night and into the mornings, and that combined with the lower humidity levels give relief from the heat at least part of the day as a result. Both climates have their advantages and disadvantages and I have enjoyed NC so far.
@@solomon4554 Cfb is for warm summers instead of hot summers though (basically comfortable warm vs unbearable warm). But that's one of the issues with Koppen's classification, sometimes completely different climates go in the same category. So New Orleans and Houston have Cfa climates with long summers and short winters (the ones that people from NYC, Tokyo or DC wouldn't call winters), while NYC, Tokyo and DC have four-season climates, with NYC being very close to Dfa. The same thing happens with Cfb climates, but we distinguish different Cfb climates between "marine west coast" and "subtropical highland".
From Southern China Guangzhou, now I am studying abroad in the UK, I prefer the Oceanic Climate :D Because Summer in the UK is cool and balmy, you don't need the air-condition. And Winter is also wet too
Welcome to my country! Yes, we do get a lot of grey skies here, but it's a very mild climate with limited extremes, and only about 2 weeks in the summer where you wished you'd have air conditioning! Much cooler than Guangzhou in the summer!
I live on the Gold Coast, Australia which has a pretty warm subtropical climate, the yearly average temp being 22c and rainfall about 1,000mm. The summers are quite hot & humid with torrential rain from the tropics (Jan/Feb), the winters are the driest and daily highs around 20c but the Spring and Autumn are amazing, quite dry with daily 25c. The ocean temp ranges from 21-26c.
I recently moved here and id say that for year round warmth and not extremely humid/ hot in summer (like tropics) it's one of the best in the world - similar to southern Brazil coast and north Florida.
Wow, so here in NJ close to New York City is humid sub-tropical and very close to humid continental. Makes sense. We have days in the winter that looks like continental climate but only during an artic blast or cold front when temps can fall to the 10's F (-10 C) at night. We also experiece some winter days where the temps can go to the 50's or 60's F (10's C) but only during a high pressure in the Atlantic. But the average we have here is about upper 30's F to lower 40's F day; upper 20's to lower 30's night on average. We experience snow in the winter and sometimes snow storms; and rain all year round. We experience warm to hot summers. So thats becuase NYC is sub-tropical, near the border of continental. Nice.
A minor oversight on cities: large cities in the tropical highlands of southern Africa (Angola? Zambia? Malawi?) are left off. That's a fairly large band of Cwa climates on the map.
I'm from Venice, and our climate looks like this: the summers are bloody humid, so even if it is 25° it feels like 35°. Days are mostly sunny, though there are occasional brief storms and rainy days. The best time of the day is the evening when the temperature is around 21/22° and there's a nice cold breeze. The autumns are stupidly wet, with days mostly overcast and rainy or foggy. The worst part of the autumn is that you can wake up at 7.00 a.m.with the temperature at 5/10°, while at 3.00 p.m. it's almost at 20°, so you basically have to completely change your clothing based on the time of the day. The best days are the few sunny days, around midday and in the early afternoon, when you can still wear a t-shirt until early December because it's 15° outside. The Winters practically don't exist, as another commenter from Milan said. They're basically just long, drawn-out, colder and dryer autumns. In the morning the temperature is around 0°, but can go up to 15° in the early afternoon on the warmest (and usually foggiest) days. There is very little snowfall, maybe once a year, and it melts in two days anyway. The days are short too, so it's really the worst time of the year: you wake up with the freezing cold outside, it's raining and at midday you don't see or feel the sun in any way. Even if there are 10° the humidity sucks all of the warmth out of you. And even when you're done with school, you're still going to be depressed as it's already night outside and you find yourself wandering around town, slipping on the bridges and (not in 2020 obviously) having to push the bloody tourists around who come here to experience our famous Carnival. Spring is a little better. It's quite like autumn as it rains very often, but the days are longer and thereforw you can experience a lot more sunlight throughout the day, but even more than in autumn the clothes you wear in the morning can't be the same you wear in the afternoon, as on the most extreme days the temperature can go from 2/4° at 6 a.m. to 18/20° at 3.00 pm. I don't really like the climate in my city. It's just the humidity, you know. If we had the same temperatures but it were dryer we would probably have a Mediterranean climate, while in Milan they would have a continental one, both better options than humid subtropical, in my opinion.
Hello, you lucky inhabitant of the world’s first and only true “water city”! “L'erba del vicino è sempre più verde….” I’m an artist, so I’d be happy in Venice no matter what the weather. But I do agree with you about the winters in Venice, when the cold gets amplified by the humidity.😌
I moved to Serbia 4 years ago and they say we have moderate continental climate over here. But every summer I feel much more like I'm living in Bangladesh. This year we had nice sunny weather for most of the time jan-may. Then it started rainig like hell for 5 days straight with floods in western Serbia where I live. Now the heat and humidity are unbearable since, as soon as it comes out, the sun is mercyless over here. So, this is not what moderate continental climate is supposed to be like, and I was born in Germany, so I'm well familiar with continentality. #pocketsofHSCinthebalkans
Summers in humid subtropical areas are tropical. Summers are hot and humid. Winters range from barely above freezing (New York City) to nearly tropical (central Florida). These places get frost in the winter -- enough to kill off some tropical diseases. Where the humidity isn't high, summers are simply hot, as in Dallas, with occasional deluges. If you want to live in a place that feels like a hot desert but is just too rainy in the summer even to qualify as Mediterranean, there is the I-35 corridor in Texas.
I am from Central Serbia, and i would say its more of a continental climate than a subtropic. Winters are decently cold (this winter it was -18 and 40 cm of snow ) with snow days from 20 to 50 days per year, and its decently cloudy. summer are between hot and warm, with low temperatures from 14 to 18 degrees and high temperature from 24 to 32 degrees. Although every 5-10 years there is a stupidly hot summer, hot and humid never happen together in summer, so it doesnt appear more hotter than it is. I would definetly say climate is closer to eastern europe than say atlanta, hong kong. I am generally from a colder part of serbia, as far as i know its much hotter in belgrade especially during summer when temperatures represent those of tropics because of urban heat isle effect
5:27 I love this background music you put in there. It gives that homey feeling (even though I live in northern US - Dfb) what is the name of that music? I’d love to listen to it!
I live in Washington DC. Here’s my general description of each season. Winters are cool but dry. Autumns are pleasant and beautiful. Springs are short but nice. But If you could avoid it, don’t visit in the summer. While it’s not deadly or even close, the abundance of 30-35 degree days (86-95 Fahrenheit) with high humidity makes it extremely unpleasant. Plus at least a third of summer days will have an evening thunderstorm that will have you wishing you were in San Diego. Here’s my rating of the seasons from worst to best. Summer, Spring, Winter, and Autumn is the clear winner!
Well I would say there are about an equal amount of days with highs of below 5 degrees, and days with highs above 15. Those days aren’t many though. Most daily highs are between 6-12 degrees which are definitely not warm. At the same time, the sun shines most days making those temperatures much milder. We definitely don’t have palm tree weather, but I personally love having a break in the heat!
I moved from a continental climate (Minnesota) to Monterey Tennessee cfa humid subtropical three years ago. I am no longer stressed out by winter as it's nice and mild. I will say we get a massive amount of rain here. I'm on the western edge of the cumberland plateau region so the updraft from climbing 800ft intensifies precipitation. We received 78 inches of rain last year.
@@Geodiode Yes. Winters are like a different world. Coldest temperatures in Minneapolis that I experienced were in the -30sF. Coldest I've seen here was +1F. The highest January temperature I saw in Minneapolis was 49F. Here in Monterey it can hit 70F in January and 60s are quite common. Because of our 1900ft elevation vs 800ft elevation in Minneapolis summers are about the same, however, they last much longer here. The Cfa summers are much more consistent. Expect mid 80s with high humidity and afternoon thunderstorms for weeks on end much like the tropics. In the valley it's closer to 90. Yes, it is very lush with lots of reptiles and amphibians.
Many 2020 articles claim that New York City was a continental climate until recently when it switched to humid subtropical. Growing up in the city, for sure the winters are not nearly as harsh as they used to be. Summer seems longer and rather than a gradual Fall, there's no middle ground anymore. It just goes from warm, to cold. Meanwhile, when I was home in the city over the summer, it has never been that humid. Now on the west coast, I'm also interested in how the marine layer in SoCal isn't what it used to be. Where it just goes from the (not so) wet season, to summer without as much May Gray and June Gloom. I suspect in the coming decades, SoCal will be hotter but also a bit wetter in the summer, more influenced by the North American monsoon.
It's due island heating effect since Manhattan gets considerably warmer than NY coast. In mexico city,urbanization also affected the region's climate a lot, it used to be highland oceanic cfb but now falls into semiarid cwa since Spaniards drained the city's lakes.
I think it’s so weird to put New York City’s climate in the same category as Atlanta GA or Houston TX. Yes, NYC winter is very mild, but there’s no way warm enough to be classified subtropical. I think it would be more fitting to put NYC climate to the Oceanic type similar to Seattle.
@@connorplaysgames2401 yup. January was just barely several decimal points above 32F to qualify for a Dfa. Now its Cfa since 1981-2010. Further reinforced in 1991-2020 normals with about 34F in Jan
Too bad we can't forgo the winter and just experience rotating spring and summer with rainfall! Great video though! Love these. I live in Texas, bitter cold in DFW right now. It's funny that just driving 5 hours south to Houston can make such a difference though. I just feel like cold weather is a waste of life though!
Yes, I don't mind the cold in Houston or around the gulf of Mexico because it's much less windy and more mild. . . truly mild not 25 degrees Fahrenheit mild. Every climate has something unique and appreciable, I just prefer to appreciate them as a traveller from a warm place and not a resident of a cold one hehe. My physical body does not seem to be genetically for cold tolerance at all. I like Miami in Florida actually and would like to go there, but my wife doesn't want to live precisely on the ocean because of storms. Otherwise we'd be very geared up for that. That kind of knocks out Hawaii and Florida. As a US citizen we can buy land in Costa Rica though which is cool. @@Geodiode
@@coolbluetunes9885 Cool Blue, I agree with your assessment, both quite miserable! Houston is hotter but definitely a nicer city despite pollution. Gardening in Houston is much nicer
The cold winters at the least spare you the tropical diseases. I've lived in Greater Dallas, and one thing that I recall is that winter temperatures are erratic. Even in January temperatures can approach 30 C in conditions typical of a hot desert at that latitude, only to drop to -5 C in a few hours. Once the wind shifts again it's back to warm weather more like Phoenix than like Atlanta. Another of course is that summers are brutally hot, characteristic of subtropical deserts. Dallas is not hot desert. The frontal storms that graze Phoenix in the winter and bring little rain (they also hit southern California but bring real rain off the Pacific) bring real rain in Dallas from the Gulf of Mexico. Summers get few rainstorms, but those are deluges. It looks like hot semi-desert because a highly-perched escarpment of limestone prevents tress from setting down solid roots. Dallas feels and looks like anything but Cfa, but it is exactly that. The Koeppen classification isn't about human perception. Dallas is not fully subtropical; it is too chilly for palm trees or alligators.
I live in Brazil's southeastern region in town 800m above sea level, climate here is described as Cwa. We have a mean annual tempearture on 20°C, the hottest month is february with an average temperature of 30°C and the coolest month being July with 11°C. When the cold air masses from Antarctica reach us with enough force, temperature falls easily to 4°C.
Thanks for this excellent video. It helps in some ways to show the fallibility of this classification system when you think about people who have made life changing decisions to move from climates like New York to end up in something closer to Durban (or the other way) which are so massively different from one another yet earn the same status.
I live in Montevideo and the climate here is subtropical but less extreme than in the northern hemisphere. Here summers are cooler (28° / 18°) and winters are milder (14° / 6°) than in other parts with the same climate.
Olá amigo uruguaio. Brasileiro aqui. Moro no sudeste do Brasil. Nosso clima é mais monçônico, mas varia parecido 30°/19° nos meses mais quentes e 23°/11° nos meses mais frios. No verão chove em média 200mm e no inverno 10mm.
I am from São Paulo, Brazil, and it is Cfa climate, in the summer there is so much rain, from January to March, and after that it turns cold and keep colder and colder and drier and drier, at the start of september the hot comes, but it's still dry, but like in the middle of october it starts raining. I'm describing the general conditions, but there are some days of cold in summer, and some hot days in the winter, strange. Well, observing the pattern I think it has influence from Cwa climate.
I’m telling you! Even if you think the hot dessert climate is unbearable, if you spend a week in Washington DC in the summer you’ll realize how lucky you are to not have to deal with the terrible humidity of the Humid Subtropical climate!
@@jackscinema1706 I wish it's dry; unfortunately, it's very humidity also, imagine that, from May until Mid October, the temp between 40 to 50 C with very high of moisture that it reaches more than 80%, add with then the dust storm, the winter is cool to worm, and it's short also from last of December until first of May, last year it didn't rain either :( Really I don't want to live in Dubai
@@jackscinema1706 I wish there is some device or some technology can reduce the UV heat and temperature from sun in our place event can change the climate to better and cooler with more rain 🥺 I don't want to live in this hot desert country, most of my time in home until the temperature becoming cooler and better🤷🏻♂️It's really nightmare for me
Hello, I really loved this video, it explains a lot, I learned a lot about the climate I live in, and it's overall very well done. However, I have a big problem with the temperature chart at 10:26 for Guadalajara, Mexico. I don't know where you got that terribly misleading information, but I have to tell you, as a inhabitant of this city, our winters are way colder. In the central district of the city, winters are between 22° and 4° C (71 and 39 F), and the temperature drops significantly in fall. Actually, where I live, is pretty near to the central district of Guadalajara (Zapopan), we usually get as cold as 1°C (33°F), and below freezing temperatures are not rare.
@@Geodiode thank you so much for answering me! Regarding that, yeah I know there can be hotter or colder years, but 10 degrees sounds too high for the minimum on January. Maybe it would help to check the climate chart of the city on the Spanish Wikipedia Article. But again, thank you very much for your video and for explaining it all! Btw, what is your criteria to separate temperate from continental? 0° or -3°?
@@yaelvacacenteno1382 Well just like in new delhi which has an average low of 7°C and high of 20°C during January, it can too experience temperatures between 0-2°C, can also experience relatively low daytime temperatures, for example on 30th December 2019 due to very dense fog, the high temperature was only 9°C and the low was 5°C, these are just averages, some winters are very warm while some are very cold these apply to all climates, so keep that in mind!, EDIT- Actually i think for the night time you are true, according to weatherspark the average low for Guadalajara during January is 5°C, but the high is still 24°C, it looks like Guadalajara experiences huge temperature differences!
The Sydney yearly temp range was way off aswell. Timestamp- 8.25 . Max 30° c in summer?, I wish. It's over 30°c here now but it's midnight. Those ranges look more Melbourne to me. Sydney gets to like 40ish°c in summer easily. Makes me wonder when these were taken or what other locations are incorrect
Fuzhou, China Sits at the boundary of a humid subtropical and monsoon climate. There's a week or two in mid June or July where there's a solid week of rain or so. This is mainly due to the rain shadow effect of the area.
@@Geodiode also, I feel as though this climate can actually be split into two more variants. New York City and Houston both fall under this climate, but New York City is famous for its snow in the winter while Houston is snow-free on most years. Similar differences are also seen in Wuhan vs Xiamen. There really should be two more distinctions that would require an extra letter: Cfac- Humid Subtropical Continental (NYC, Wuhan, DC, etc.) Cfam- Humid Subtropical Maritime/Oceanic (Houston, Guangzhou, New Orleans) The difference is big enough to affect agriculture. Texas, Louisiana, and Florida are all famous for various citrus fruits. The oceanic influence keeps the winters warmer and closer to the Csa Mediterranean winter, another climate famous for citrus. The only caveat is that the oceanic version requires a southern coast near the 30th parallel or so.
The humid subtropical in the southern hemisphere tends to pretty mild (mild summers/mild winters) compared to the humid subtropical in the northern hemisphere.
@solomon4554 The average temperature would be colder in the south hemisphere, but the seasonal variation (aka continentality) is much larger in the north hemisphere; probably bc there's just much more continental mass in the north hemisphere.
I grow up in southern china, it feels really hot in summer, I just hate that your body actually want to sweat, but the moisture formed a water film on the skin already......
You have seen me many times at this point but your videos are so fun to watch! Anyways, my question: Shouldn't this climate be split into two? In the koppen system, Cfa includes a lot of places which have very different winter temperatures, anywhere from 0 to 15 degrees! Eg. Hong Kong is Cfa and borderline Tropical while Eastern Bulgaria is borderline Continental. Both have similar summers but different winters.
I have a proposal which will solve 2 climate debates. 26 F should be the line between continental climates and temperature climates, but cwb/cfb/csb should be a new type called cool subtropical, which has winters below 32 F but subtropical summers. oceanic, what is now csb, and subtropical highland would end in a c, and subpolar oceanic would end in a d.
@@sreedevisodanapalli1010 Hmm. My idea to this problem is a little different. This is a bit long but might worth it. Split the temperate climates into 3, by their summers: Hot/ Subtropical Summer, Temperate Summers and Subpolar summers, defined by the letters A,B and C. Then the precipitation patterns(ill just say S or F to keep things very simple). Third letter stands for winters, which are split into 4, but here is the thing, the hotter the summer, the more likely for winters to be warmer, so each summer type has different winters. For example, the subtypes with their coldest month for Hot summer climates: (higher than 8C, 8-3C, 3- -3C or lower than -3C). The last letter represents this (a,b,c,d) Temperate summers look like this: (higher than 3C, 3- - 3C, -3 - -10C, lower than -10C) and Subpolar: (-3, -10 and -38 are the split points). So Afb means Hot summer with winters between 8 and 3 degrees. Well, Bfb has the same winter letter but its winters are between 3 and -3 degrees.
@@shrek8781 I like your idea, but I think summer temperatures shouldn’t have to do with winter isotherms so that things are simpler, climates are easier to compare, and some of those winter isotherms are continental. The continental climates are good as is. I’ve added another Isotherm based off winter temperatures so there could be an A (the a was capital so it wouldn’t be mistaken for the word a)for winter 50f to 64f, b for winter 50f to 32f, and c for 32f to 26f.
So, I have visited Buenos Aires in the winter, and as a Canadian who had to wait for the bus at -30, this is the coldest I've ever felt in my life, save for that time I swam in the lake in October. I can only describe the feeling as something clenching my diafragm.
I live in a cwa, in Cordoba Argentina, and it is uncomfortable, the temperatures are irregular, in winter you can have days with minimums of -5 degrees and maximums of 10 degrees, and days with minimums of 10 degrees and maxims of 20, in the summer there are days with 15 degrees of minimum and maximum days that pass 35 degrees celsius, horrible, the only thing I like are the electrical storms of spring and summer, which are sometimes destructive, but they are beautiful
Yeah, i know how it is, here in Mobile, Alabama, Is the most rainiest city in all the U.S. Usually when it rains in April - September its really humid and hot, like, there are 80°F (26°C) but high humidity (80-90% on storms and 65-75% on rain) makes it feel hotter, maybe 6°F more, then it does feel like 86°F (29°C), however winter are usually cold here, with an average 42°F (5°C) minium and 60°F (15°C) maxium, we don't have that variation, but most days variates with humidity (that makes it really hard to know if its cold or warm), you may know that climate variates a lot, some days are sunny, others are cloudy or rainy. Anyways i've saw that Cordoba has one of the worst climates, so yeah have a good day, afternoon or night ;)
@@BurriDogGT and what about new delhi lol, oh wait so you're saying Cordoba climate's is worst because it can get suddenly cold, suddenly hot in each season?
Europe is the last continent in which the humid subtropical climate comes to mind. But then, I’ve read more about it 😄 some major cities like Belgrade and Venice fall under the Cfa classification
@@Geodiode Also Budapest, the northernmost city with this climate, bordering on both Oceanic climate and continental climate (in the 0C isotherm) I can't imagine Budapest having similar temperature and vegitation to the southern US or Southern, China, and it probably doesn't considering it's borderline climate. in your map in the continental climate video, I appeared, that a lot more of Europe had this climate, which is somewhat true in the 0C isotherm but definately not in the -3C isotherm.
I currently live in Kotor bay area, Montenegro. Climate can be classified as Cfa here. Unlike some places in Europe with Mediterranean climate, summer is relatively wet and rainy here.
I've noticed is that in the humid subtropical areas of the indian subcontinent, is that either November or December is the driest months, so in many places winter isn't even the driest period
Koppen is generally an adequate system, but Cfa is one of the areas where it drops the ball. It’s essentially a wastebasket category. Can you tell me a single thing Fuzhou and NYC have in common? Even the wind patterns are utterly different.
My favorite type of climate here in the United States. I love long summers, but winters cold enough where you get to appreciate spring. I live in Massachusetts where it’s “humid continental” and the winter tends to drag on too much for my liking.
GeoDiode, Hi👋🏻 ! Watch out ! The Po Valley and Piedmont in the Northern inland plains of Italy doesn't really fit into a humid subtropical climate. Winters are too cold, just above freezing and summers are hot but not as hot as in Atlanta... Milan 1981-2010 normals : January : about 2°C (just above freezing) July : about 24°C (> 22°C) Milan lies in the Northern limit of the humid subtropical climate. Winters are much colder than in London. We can say that Milan features a mid latitude, four seasons humid subtropical climate. Cyprien
I have thought about a fourth letter being added to define winter temperatures in C type climates - For example, Cfa would be divided into two different zones, with Cfaa having hot summers (>22*C) and mild winters (10-18*C), and Cfab still having hot summers (>22*C) but cool winters (0-10*C), which feel very different. I've even thought of changing the third letter to h if the summer temperatures are very hot (
Yup. The C classification needs a split like instead of C,D,E to be C,D,E,F where C is split into two and all others are moved by one letter. Also, contributing to the Oceanic - Continental thing, I think there should be a transition zone between -3 and 3 degrees
@@Geodiode For sure, mainly the high temperatura range in a day, it used to rain more here, i mean 40 yars ago, but the deflorestation in northern region of the country really changed the climate. Btw tx for asking, recently found the channel an already love the content!!
@@Geodiode I've lived here my whole life and trust me when I say the average highs in the Summer and early Fall are way above where they used to be. When I grew up in the 90s the weather was different and normal.
Amazing and visually stunning as usual. Keep it up man. Plus I wanna add something. Can you be kind enough to let me use some of your clips on my channel?
I live in the area of cwa. Where I live, it hardly snows in winter, occasionally once or twice, but it will soon melt. The summer here is very long. It has started to get warmer in March, and is already hot in April. Spring is very short, while summer lasts for a long time. In October, the temperature is still very high. The average temperature in November is generally above 10 degrees Celsius. Only in late December will the temperature drop. The coldest is January, but the cold weather doesn't last long, usually only a few days, which is tolerable most of the time. The difference between us and cfa is that our winter rainfall is low, usually less than 20 mm in January, and most of the rainfall is in summer and autumn (if any). In other words, we actually only have cold and warm seasons here, and spring, autumn and winter are very difficult to distinguish. Usually, it starts to get warmer in February, and then it lasts until December. I like our climate better, but feel a little cold in winter. I would be very satisfied if it could be warmer and have more rainfall in winter.
@@edwardgeorge8673yes as per 1991-2020 normals January is now 0.2C average monthly temp in Qingdao. Hence its no longer a Dwa with coldest month by average temp below 0C, but instead Cwa.
I live in New Jersey so we are Humid Subtropical (Cfa) but just to our north is the Hot Summer Humid Continental Climate and little further north is the Warm Summer version. So year to year weather patterns can really effect how severe our seasons are. Although in recent years it’s been much warmer. Typically our coldest month which is January gets down to 30°F for a mean average monthly temperature yet it was just above 40°F this year. Likewise in summer, our hottest month, July is typically 73°F but last Summer it was 78°F. So the past 12 months here in NJ have felt more like Kentucky. But this past January felt like what they typically get in North Carolina and last year’s July felt like how it normally is in Missouri. Lol
North Jersey is continental except for Hudson County and around. Hudson County, NJ is classified as Humid Subtropical because is in the coast, and densely populated with a lot of infrastructure which contributes for a few degrees warmer due to the heat island effect. The other night, with this artic blast that even is snowing in Florida, Hudson County had a low of 11°F last night, but Sussex County and Warren County was 6 below zero.
I'm from Brisbane, Australia and it has some of the best weather. I used to think the summer's were too hot and winter's too cold.... Until I lived in both tropical and continental climates, then I discovered what hot and cold truly meant! I have a question though, you say in the video that humid subtropical is the only climate type found on all inhabited continents... But the other temperate climates are also found on all the inhabited continents, so I'm a bit confused.
"I used to think summers were too hot and winters too cold" LMAO... As someone who lives in Brissy as a born an bred Melburnian.. You wouldn't have a clue... This is paradise compares to Melbourne
I love this video and love this climate. Like a lot of southern China it’s interesting how a lot of it is under the tropics of cancer, to name a few: Kunming, which runs through the middle of the topic of cancer, Nanning, Zhanjiang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Macau and Hong Kong but have the humid subtropical climate due to the Siberian pressure system that brings cool air part of the Asian Monsoon which I will watch next 😃 They just fall under the requirements for the Tropical wet and dry climates. Due to global warming a few like Zhanjiang May become a tropical climate in the next 20 years unless it is Slowed down. Hainans hardiness zones will go up as well. Despite Hong Kong being subtropical it has hardiness 11, unlike tropical Miami which has hardiness zone 10b. Thank you for great video.
Hong Kong could soon too. The southernmost parts of Xuwen County of Guangdong is already the cold end of tropical climate now. Even parts of Yunnan are tropical, esp in the low river valleys close to the borders with the SE Asian countries
I am impressed on how the Cfa/Cwa climates host billions and majority of the world's largest cities. And in countries defined with so many climate types like China, US, Japan a dominant share of their people (at least 50%) would have lived in such a climate zone But given we have climate change we could expect a bit more people to find themselves on the colder end of this climate zone, on a transition to Dwa/Dfa climates like the Northern, Northeastern United States like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, North China esp Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian and even parts of urban Hokkaido like Sapporo
I'm from Paraguay, we have one of the hottest cfa variations due to being far away from the ocean, in the capital we're kinda in the transition between the humid sub tropical and the wet chaco and we also don't have decidious trees. Our summers are very hot and super humid, our winters are temperate with few counted weeks when it drops bellow 10° (in the nights it can go bellow 5°) and spring and autumn kinda have this hot days but sometimes it just drops to minumum 15°.
I'm now living in a small town 70 km from Rangpur in Northern Bangladesh, whose climate is classified as Cwa. Summers (average low/high 25C/35C)here are very very very humid and of course very wet, as this region is very heavily influenced by the Indian monsoon. Almost every year it floods in the low-lying areas around my town. Again, winters are mild to cool (average low/high 8C/20C, actually coldest in my tropical country), very foggy, and dry. Personally, my favorite season is autumn, due to its pleasant and mild temperature and comparable low humidity to the summer. summer temperatures here will not kill you, rather here the very high humidity will not let you do anything!
Great to hear such a detailed local perspective. You're not that far from Cherrapunji, which I talk about in my Asian Monsoon video, if you haven't already seen it...
@@Geodiode Yeah, It's quite insane, I also lived in the city of Sylhet, situated just at the foothills of the Hills of Meghalaya, directly below the Cherrapunji. Sylhet indeed is the wettest major city in Bangladesh, with almost 5000 mm (195 inches) annual average precipitation.
im from south new jersey and summers are hot as hell and humid. In the 80s and 90s.( around 31 c). and the winters are coldish, averaging mid 30s(2c). the spring and fall are very nice
I was born and raised in the southeastern U.S. and I still live there so this is definitely the climate type I know the best. My mother grew up in New Jersey 6 miles outside of Manhattan so you could see the Empire State and Chrysler buildings out the window of my grandmother’s house. I moved to NYC after I graduated from a college outside of Cleveland, Ohio. It’s odd to me that New York has the same climate type as Atlanta. I’ve lived in both for many years and I’ve gotta say that New York seemed to have more in common with the humid continental climate in Cleveland than the humid subtropical in Atlanta. I remember getting 37 inches of snow in the 28 days of February 2010 when I was in New York. In Atlanta we can go 2 or 3 years without seeing any snow.
Also NYC have two type of climates it have a humid continental and subtropical climate because it's too cold in winter that's why it's classified as humid continental but summer are hot and humid that's why it's classified as subtropical climate
1) Cleveland averages much colder than New York, with much more snow. I think NYC is slightly more like Atlanta than Cleveland in temperature, aside from precipitation patterns 2) Subtropical climates in Japan get tons of snow, more than the east coast of the US. New York averages only 9 inches of snow in February, so please don't attempt to pass off your experience as normal. It's not. I'm constantly annoyed by people who use extremes to characterize climates - you know it's an extreme, right? It's not representative of the average conditions of February in New York City?
@@decrox13 Yes but Februaries in NYC are much closer to those in Cleveland (or Boston) than in Atlanta in my experience. So that doesn't change the point I was trying to make.
@@stephenbrand5661 "Your experience" is narrow and is not necessarily at all representative of what is typical or average for New York, so that assertion is irrelevant. New York City is not more similar to Cleveland in climate. The statistics, and therefore the reality, prove that.
The Cfa climate of europe should be considered one of its own grouping apart from the Cfa of China and USA. Since its generally more northern shifted in latitude and the continentality is less, because western Europe is near the sea As for the Cfa of Northern Italy i would describe it as.. Yes Humid in feeling.. As you perceive more coldness in winter (due to humidity) but also more hotness in summer (due to humidity)
Well, there is a lot of variation within this climate type, so you could make the same argument for northern India, which has a different temperature and precipitation pattern from all other regions with this climate. It’s the only area with this climate that has summer daily maximum temperatures above 100*F or 38*C, but “summer” occurs in April, May, and June, then monsoon season happens in July and August
This is so untrue that the Balkan zone in Europe - countries like Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania - has "humid subtropical climate", it's actually laughable, no heavily populated area, on the contrary, no rice, no subtropical crops, nothing similar or close to China climate....It's just continental, with a very very mild mediterranean influence.
26° latitude in Southwest Florida. We used to have an actual winter, but this started changing in the 1990s. Now it's almost no winter, just a cooler, drier season of 3 months with a few cold days. The summers are much worse than when I was a kid. The geoengineering is everywhere.
I HAVE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. So this classification is just saying that its cold enough to NOT GET ANY snow but hot enough to be like tropics right cause Florida and Kentucky don't really seem to be similar except those two factors (with Florida barely having any cold days)
The line must be drawn somewhere, and Koeppen chose two factors: 1. potential vegetation. A place like Dallas has summers almost as hot as those of subtropical deserts (Tucson is a good analogue for temperature) but it has mid-latitude vegetation. Its winters are too cold for palm trees (oddly, San Francisco, mild all year, has palm trees and looks tropical). 2. persistent weather at least for a season. The C-D line roughly divides places in which snows not only happen but can take weeks to melt. In such areas the snow creates its own climatic effect by intensifying the cooling above it. That is where the coldest month averages -3F. Why -3F and not 0F? An average temperature of 0F implies that a part of the day allows some melting of snow on the average day of the coldest month Thus a blizzard that hits Chicago (Dfa) will leave snow that might not disappear for a couple months in the middle of winter. Around St. Louis or Indianapolis that is iffy. Around Nashville snowstorms are possible, but the snow from those is likely to be gone in a week or so. Bare ground allows the sun to warm it, so a place like Nashville might get very cold, but not for long. I would be tempted to subdivide the C climates at an average of 10C (paradoxically that would put San Francisco, which is in the mild-summer Mediterranean zone, in the "hotter" classification and Dallas in the "cooler-winter" classification. I am familiar with climates in Detroit (Dfa, northern Michigan (Dfb), Dallas (Cfa), Phoenix (BWh) and San Francisco (Csb) for having spent considerable time around them. Koeppen does not consider what people think of their local climates. But agriculture is everything. Oh, yes -- as for climate change, it is real. Winters are getting shorter and less severe in southern Michigan, and I have experienced years with climatic conditions typical of Cfa and even Csa (summer drought) climates. Such may be portents of what is coming.
It always feels strange that New York City is classified as humid subtropical; we get so many frigid Jan. and Feb. days (today included!). But our winters are somewhere between the daily bone-chilling cold of upstate NY or Vermont and the refreshing, cool winter days of (say) North Carolina. And our summers are distinctly "Southern": intensely humid and the heat seems to last almost five months (mid-May to mid-October).
I lived in Tokyo for a while, and I gotta say, I much prefer the weather in Tokyo than in Phoenix! The incessant rain was dreary at times, but I’d take a rainy place over a dry one any day.
Love you man! I’m always saying the same! Growing up in the fucked up middle east but spent all of my summers in Europe, I’m sure I’m gone move to Europe. Greenery = Life! 🌲🌿🌳🌴 Desert = deserted, Death ☠️
@@Geodiodewhether the city is in BSh or Cwa dependent on how much proportion of the annual rainfall in the summer months of Apr-Sep for NHEM where New Delhi is and the annual mean temperature of the city in this case 25.9C 280 if 70% or more of the total precipitation is in the spring and summer months, which New Delhi fits. Hence 25.9x20+280 = 798. 798mm is the threshold that divides Cwa from BSh, hence New Delhi is now BSh, with a rainfall in 1991-2020 at 774mm.
I am from South Florida in the United States. In the video I seen how other states like Georgia and South Carolina were grouped in the same category; but I can tell you first hand that Florida uniquely has a much hotter climate than any other southeast regional state.
Hello bossman. You should talk about how the warming of certain areas in Europe see that they are becoming subtropical as well Like the new normal for Budapest, Hungary which show that they now have regular 1 to 2 months with a mean above 22C that should be interesting as it would be the most northern major city with such a climate classification.
@@solomon4554 Its also the coldest month by average temp, like in this case January, its above 0C. Qualifies for a Cfa rather than a D climate. Austria's capital Vienna's downtown is also a Cfa climate!
Howdy from below the Arbuckle mts. One of the only horizontal mountains in western hemisphere. They do alter the climate. Southeastern heading storms either dissipate or reorganize at I35 and reform at US75. In between is a somewhat different system. Looking at the rainfall totals for the dust bowl drought this small section actually received it’s normal rainfall. Also I35 which aligns with the western boundaries of the Arbuckles has a very different fauna and Floria on the east than the west south of the arbuckles.
I live in the southeast corner of New York, in the suburbs where our January average is 31°Fahrenheit (-.5 C) and I would put my location in humid subtropical. I don’t think it’s great that we are in the same zone as, say, Washington DC or Atlanta as the Cfa is too broad. We are firmly cfa for the 27F isotherm (-3C) and will soon likely be cfa when using the 32 or 0C isotherm when the 1991-2020 Climate data is out. The past few years we have seen consistently warmer winters with less snow. Just 5.2 inches of snow in my town this winter, and 6 days of snow cover. I love these warmer winters (even though we have had lots of rain and some thunderstorms). I live in an interesting climate a few miles inland in NY (Lower Hudson Valley) The summers are pretty dry due to the costal location and Appalachian mountains suppressing thunderstorm development, so we get 2.3 inches of rain only in our driest month, June, and 2.7 in July, compared to 49 inches annually. It’s a very rare Cfa/Dfa/Csa borderline case. Our summers are hot, 86 F (30 C), but not humid until the hurricane season becomes more active in August. Overall pretty pleasant, not too extreme climate, although we have pretty much rain year round, other than the aforementioned relative dryness in June and July, and the occasional snow day in winter, though it usually melts rather quickly, at least in my lifetime.
6:20 - NorthEastern Argentina (including Buenos Aires) and Uruguay not only by major ancestry resemble with Italian (mainly from North Italy), also climate resembled with North Italy aka Padania climate because both belongs to Cfa climate.
Hello, Nice vídeo:-)!! I live in Campo Grande MS and te wheater is subtropical Cfa, but in the Köppen climate of Brazil the wheater is Aw but i think is because of the biome but is more like a grassland then a savannah, but i saw in this video and the Map that of video, campo grande MS is include in the Cfa subtropical as i said before, geo may you answer me?
Ola! Campo Grande is firmly within the tropical climate zone, because its average annual temperature is 22°C (the boundary between tropical and subtropical is 18°C). The Koppen map in this video is out of date. Please see the new map on the website: geodiode.com/climate/humid-subtropical
@@Geodiode Forgot to mention but in May the temperature dipped to 19°C! And on June 1st the temperature dipped to record low 17.9°C it's because of that western disturbances and also a cyclone! However Instead it was pretty hot in Early July/Late June! Temperature reached 43°C on July 1st
Hello b. J ranson again this is radhakrishnan, I have a following question, could you explain 1.if earth 50 °tilte and earth rotates east to West, how would be earth climate 2.if all the continent is in below equator, how would be earth climate, please explain critically
The 10C/50F January isotherm is a good approximation of the line between the true temperate zone and the true subtropics. Dallas lies just north of that line, and it looks mid-latitude. Austin and Houston are south of that line, and they are subtropical.
i think it's missing Hanoi -Vietname because I live in Hanoi. Hanoi has very cold and windy winters. The highest summer temperature is 40°C . The lowest winter temperature is 2°C . Occasionally Hanoi also has frost
You didn't mention that this climate is also found in a small portion of South-Eastern Bolivia, being the only low altitude temperate climate of the country.
Actually I remembered something: the thunderstorms over there were typically more intense than here in the Netherlands although the last decade this seems to be changing as the climate here has gotten slightly warmer.
@@PeterSwinkels The climate in the Netherlands hasn't gotten slightly warmer in the Netherlands and the countries frequency of thunderstorm activity is lower than Atlanta's.
@@decrox13 : I said the thunderstorms appear to have increased not that the number was the same as in Atlanta. The weather hasn't gotten warmer? Based on what data?
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Hello all! I hope you enjoyed this presentation of the Humid Subtropical Climate - the most heavily populated of all climate zones. If you're one of the many people that live in these zones, say hi and tell us what you think of the weather there!
Wow! What a terrific video!
I just discovered your series today, and gosh, I can’t thank you enough for making it. Köppen is sometimes hard for neophytes to understand, and when I start going all “Köppen-climate geeky” around my friends, they glaze over in seconds. But you’ve made learning about the Köppen system easy and fun! Now I can simply send them a link.☺
Simply wonderful work, and a major contribution to the world of documentaries. Can’t wait to watch the rest…
As regards living in a Cfa zone: for many years I lived in Lugano, Switzerland, where I taught at an international school. Although Lugano itself classifies as Cfb - as do all the foothills of the Alps in Italy, as well as most of the Apennine mountains down to just below Rome - I spent most of my weekends in Milan, and most of my summers in Venice. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Italy .
Generally speaking guidebooks advise against spending the summer in Venice. But they could not be more wrong. I would spend summers in Venice precisely in order to escape the heat and humidity of the Cfa climate in the Po Valley. Sweltering Cfa summer heat and humidity also proved true in Lugano, despite its Cfb classification. The summers in Lugano were unbearable.
Whereas in Venice in July and August a breeze usually blows from the Adriatic towards the land. I always had a room somewhere on the Guidecca, the island that’s located right on the lagoon, and that gets the best breeze in summer.
Furthermore in Venice in the summer it usually rains for a few hours in the morning, and clears up by mid-day. The rain alone would wash away the heat and humidity.
So the morning rain, combined with the constant breeze, made July and August in Venice heavenly!
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I grew up in south Louisiana. I was pretty much sick all the time when I became 60 I moved to Seattle and I am more healthy now
most prone to tropical cyclones of any non tropical climate!
But this gives us a lot of rain for this climate zone!
I live in Subtropical zone of North India. Here we have 47°C in Summers and 1°C in winters.
I live in new zealand with an oceanic climate.i ve just visited queensland with a subtropical climate, it was so hot and humid!!
My mom, when visiting the countryside in Japan, kept repeating in awe "this looks exactly like West Virgnia"
Lifelong DC resident, now it makes complete sense how the Cherry Blossoms here thrive so wonderfully, its like if they never left Japan!
Yes indeed. More on this climate in my follow up vid: "The Subtropical Question".
I am from southern Brazil, state of Paraná, here we usually have a 0°c during winter nights and mornings, usually going to 8°c or even 12°c during the day. In summer, morning starts at 10°c or 12°c and goes to 25°c or 28°c, i have only seen it going up to 30°c or more just 5 times in 25 years. Its nice to have a bit of ice during winter and also nice to have a good temperature to go to a river in the summer. My city middle temperature for a year is 17°c.
I'm from Northern China on the edge between Cwa and Dwa on the Yellow River. The climate change seems to have been pushing it more and more towards Cwa, with hotter rainier summers and milder winters.
I’m from chicago where the temperatures are cold January through March but late January to mid and February is when we get the coldest weather. March starts off either cold or mild. In March and April, I could have snow one day and then after a day or 2, 70+ degrees. Summers are really humid but can get really hot and rain can be a bit scary. Recently, we’ve seen at least 1 60 degree day or night every month out of the year. Yes I said night. It’ll be 30 degrees in the daytime and by 9 or 10pm, it’s 60 degrees and then back 30 degrees by the more of the day. This happens in late January and mid February before we’re about to get dumped with a bunch of snow. We used to get a decent amount of snow on and off from November to March and drastically warm up by the end of March and or early April. This year, we had 3 big snowstorms which is kinda record breaking because we usually only have 2 and sometimes one with a few days of extreme cold in the negatives. Glad it’s gonna be another heatwave this week with temperatures close to 100 degrees.
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@Your superior What happened?
@@gnjc3480 The Siberian pressure system is somewhat unpredictable and brutal. Places within the tropics in China can yield frost as a result, in spite of the sun being directly above
@@horacehe6362 Write in English, so the World will understand you
I am definitely a huge fan of rain. A rainy day makes my mood better
Thank you for making this video! I searched on internet and the only person that has everything is you! Thank you! Love from Portugal!
I'm from England (Oceanic), but I currently live in Japan, and I must say, the humid part of HUMID subtropical really stands out! XD But I do appreciate the milder autumn/winter (for me, it feels about one to two months behind). Also, the prefecture I live in is interesting, because the south, where I live, is Cfa, but the north is actually a Continental climate, so they get WAY more snow up there, the difference is kinda insane, haha
@@Geodiode Yeah... summer in Japan is... certainly something, I'll give it that. Whenever you go outside, it's like being smothered in a hot damp blanket. You go outside to check the post quickly, and by the time you're back in your nice air-conditioned apartment, you have to throw your clothes in the wash, cos they're drenched in sweat! ^^; And unlike in England, having a thunderstorm doesn't "wash away" the humidity: it adds to it! D:
Same here in NYC if you go in the south of the city it's classified as cfa and if you go up to the north of the city it's have a humid continental because in the north is the coldest place in the city!
@@LAMarshall I grew up in Washington, D.C. and you're describing summer in that part of the world. Especially how the summer thunderstorms don't wash away the humidity but add to it. I lived in England for a year and that was ONE thing I actually missed about the summer in England--there is no hot or humid anything. It was rather joyless. Fun fact: Washington climate in the summer was so oppressively humid and hot that the first British diplomats to the city got "tropical hazard pay" similar to being posted in India, Singapore, Brazil or the Caribbean. LOL.
Glad you mentioned Guadalajara, Mex, my hometown, due long dry season, monsoon rain is much seen and expected every june almost as it was a gift from heaven. Love your videos cheers!
Hello from subtropical North Carolina. I moved from the high dry climate of Denver, Colorado to the humid subtropical climate of North Carolina (NC) last year and there has definitely been an adjustment. I love how green it is in NC and the forests are positively gorgeous. From what little I have seen, winter can get cold, but not as cold, and it actually rains instead of snowing most of the time. However, the heat and humidity of summer take some getting used to. During the summer it never really feels cool at night or in the morning in NC because of the high humidity levels. It appears to get hotter during the day in Denver, but seems to cool down more at night and into the mornings, and that combined with the lower humidity levels give relief from the heat at least part of the day as a result. Both climates have their advantages and disadvantages and I have enjoyed NC so far.
As usual, concise, to the point. Excellent photography and delivery.
Many thanks!
The should make a warm winter subtropical for cities like New Orleans, and Houston etc. And another variant for cool winters like NYC, Tokyo and DC.
So basically Cfa and Cfb?
@@solomon4554 Cfb is for warm summers instead of hot summers though (basically comfortable warm vs unbearable warm). But that's one of the issues with Koppen's classification, sometimes completely different climates go in the same category.
So New Orleans and Houston have Cfa climates with long summers and short winters (the ones that people from NYC, Tokyo or DC wouldn't call winters), while NYC, Tokyo and DC have four-season climates, with NYC being very close to Dfa.
The same thing happens with Cfb climates, but we distinguish different Cfb climates between "marine west coast" and "subtropical highland".
As a New Yorker, I love this climate, it’s so lush and green
From Southern China Guangzhou, now I am studying abroad in the UK, I prefer the Oceanic Climate :D Because Summer in the UK is cool and balmy, you don't need the air-condition. And Winter is also wet too
Welcome to my country! Yes, we do get a lot of grey skies here, but it's a very mild climate with limited extremes, and only about 2 weeks in the summer where you wished you'd have air conditioning! Much cooler than Guangzhou in the summer!
I live on the Gold Coast, Australia which has a pretty warm subtropical climate, the yearly average temp being 22c and rainfall about 1,000mm. The summers are quite hot & humid with torrential rain from the tropics (Jan/Feb), the winters are the driest and daily highs around 20c but the Spring and Autumn are amazing, quite dry with daily 25c. The ocean temp ranges from 21-26c.
I recently moved here and id say that for year round warmth and not extremely humid/ hot in summer (like tropics) it's one of the best in the world - similar to southern Brazil coast and north Florida.
does the summer get as humid as the tropics, say like Singapore?
@@egg-iu3fe For about 2-3 months I'd say yes, but a little cooler at night maybe. After summer it cools down a lot more though.
Howdy from Dallas, Texas. Cfa here. Hot in summer, cold but brief winter. Pleasant temps spring and autumn.
*Very hot in the summer*
Me too, but I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, brasil
*Desert like heat combined with tropical humidity in the summer*
Howdy
Washington DC same but much colder winters!❄️❄️
Wow, so here in NJ close to New York City is humid sub-tropical and very close to humid continental. Makes sense. We have days in the winter that looks like continental climate but only during an artic blast or cold front when temps can fall to the 10's F (-10 C) at night. We also experiece some winter days where the temps can go to the 50's or 60's F (10's C) but only during a high pressure in the Atlantic. But the average we have here is about upper 30's F to lower 40's F day; upper 20's to lower 30's night on average. We experience snow in the winter and sometimes snow storms; and rain all year round. We experience warm to hot summers. So thats becuase NYC is sub-tropical, near the border of continental. Nice.
Thanks for the local perspective. Much more on this subject in my new video: ruclips.net/video/uPx2tuM4W3c/видео.html
A minor oversight on cities: large cities in the tropical highlands of southern Africa (Angola? Zambia? Malawi?) are left off. That's a fairly large band of Cwa climates on the map.
Those areas actually belong to a separate subcategory which was covered by this channel on the "sub-tropical highlands" video :)
@@hiyanjadedelcastillo7377but their summers are too hot to qualify for Cwb, so they fall in Cwa
@@perrylim9728 Whoops, just pulled out the climate maps of the aforementioned areas. I stand corrected. Thanks, mate.
I'm from Venice, and our climate looks like this: the summers are bloody humid, so even if it is 25° it feels like 35°. Days are mostly sunny, though there are occasional brief storms and rainy days. The best time of the day is the evening when the temperature is around 21/22° and there's a nice cold breeze. The autumns are stupidly wet, with days mostly overcast and rainy or foggy. The worst part of the autumn is that you can wake up at 7.00 a.m.with the temperature at 5/10°, while at 3.00 p.m. it's almost at 20°, so you basically have to completely change your clothing based on the time of the day. The best days are the few sunny days, around midday and in the early afternoon, when you can still wear a t-shirt until early December because it's 15° outside. The Winters practically don't exist, as another commenter from Milan said. They're basically just long, drawn-out, colder and dryer autumns. In the morning the temperature is around 0°, but can go up to 15° in the early afternoon on the warmest (and usually foggiest) days. There is very little snowfall, maybe once a year, and it melts in two days anyway. The days are short too, so it's really the worst time of the year: you wake up with the freezing cold outside, it's raining and at midday you don't see or feel the sun in any way. Even if there are 10° the humidity sucks all of the warmth out of you. And even when you're done with school, you're still going to be depressed as it's already night outside and you find yourself wandering around town, slipping on the bridges and (not in 2020 obviously) having to push the bloody tourists around who come here to experience our famous Carnival. Spring is a little better. It's quite like autumn as it rains very often, but the days are longer and thereforw you can experience a lot more sunlight throughout the day, but even more than in autumn the clothes you wear in the morning can't be the same you wear in the afternoon, as on the most extreme days the temperature can go from 2/4° at 6 a.m. to 18/20° at 3.00 pm.
I don't really like the climate in my city. It's just the humidity, you know. If we had the same temperatures but it were dryer we would probably have a Mediterranean climate, while in Milan they would have a continental one, both better options than humid subtropical, in my opinion.
Hello, you lucky inhabitant of the world’s first and only true “water city”!
“L'erba del vicino è sempre più verde….”
I’m an artist, so I’d be happy in Venice no matter what the weather.
But I do agree with you about the winters in Venice, when the cold gets amplified by the humidity.😌
It’s because you live in the Po valley.
Is a snowfall exist in your location climate ?
bloody?
I'm already dreading the humid summer here on the east coast in the winter. Spring and fall are definitely the nicest here.
I moved to Serbia 4 years ago and they say we have moderate continental climate over here. But every summer I feel much more like I'm living in Bangladesh. This year we had nice sunny weather for most of the time jan-may. Then it started rainig like hell for 5 days straight with floods in western Serbia where I live. Now the heat and humidity are unbearable since, as soon as it comes out, the sun is mercyless over here. So, this is not what moderate continental climate is supposed to be like, and I was born in Germany, so I'm well familiar with continentality. #pocketsofHSCinthebalkans
Summers in humid subtropical areas are tropical. Summers are hot and humid. Winters range from barely above freezing (New York City) to nearly tropical (central Florida). These places get frost in the winter -- enough to kill off some tropical diseases. Where the humidity isn't high, summers are simply hot, as in Dallas, with occasional deluges. If you want to live in a place that feels like a hot desert but is just too rainy in the summer even to qualify as Mediterranean, there is the I-35 corridor in Texas.
I am from Central Serbia, and i would say its more of a continental climate than a subtropic. Winters are decently cold (this winter it was -18 and 40 cm of snow ) with snow days from 20 to 50 days per year, and its decently cloudy. summer are between hot and warm, with low temperatures from 14 to 18 degrees and high temperature from 24 to 32 degrees. Although every 5-10 years there is a stupidly hot summer, hot and humid never happen together in summer, so it doesnt appear more hotter than it is. I would definetly say climate is closer to eastern europe than say atlanta, hong kong. I am generally from a colder part of serbia, as far as i know its much hotter in belgrade especially during summer when temperatures represent those of tropics because of urban heat isle effect
@@kilarker1538 Gde živiš, zemljače?
@@igorgajic8346 zivim u brdima oko kragujevca . Ti?
@@kilarker1538 Žiča. I ja sam po malo u brdu.
I live in Delhi. It has a weather between semi arid hot( BSh) and Sub Tropical humid (Cwa).
Yes, the monsoon is mostly expired by the time it makes it that far north. Still, I don't envy your 40 degree summers!
I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. CFA climate In most part of the state.
Paraná e santa Catarina também
5:27 I love this background music you put in there. It gives that homey feeling (even though I live in northern US - Dfb) what is the name of that music? I’d love to listen to it!
Unfortunately I don't know. It comes from a music database.
I live in Washington DC. Here’s my general description of each season. Winters are cool
but dry. Autumns are pleasant and beautiful. Springs are short but nice. But If you could avoid it, don’t visit in the summer. While it’s not deadly or even close, the abundance of 30-35 degree days (86-95 Fahrenheit) with high humidity makes it extremely unpleasant. Plus at least a third of summer days will have an evening thunderstorm that will have you wishing you were in San Diego. Here’s my rating of the seasons from worst to best. Summer, Spring, Winter, and Autumn is the clear winner!
Thanks for the locals perspective. But how bad are the winters?
Well I would say there are about an equal amount of days with highs of below 5 degrees, and days with highs above 15. Those days aren’t many though. Most daily highs are between 6-12 degrees which are definitely not warm. At the same time, the sun shines most days making those temperatures much milder. We definitely don’t have palm tree weather, but I personally love having a break in the heat!
I moved from a continental climate (Minnesota) to Monterey Tennessee cfa humid subtropical three years ago. I am no longer stressed out by winter as it's nice and mild. I will say we get a massive amount of rain here. I'm on the western edge of the cumberland plateau region so the updraft from climbing 800ft intensifies precipitation. We received 78 inches of rain last year.
@@Geodiode Yes. Winters are like a different world. Coldest temperatures in Minneapolis that I experienced were in the -30sF. Coldest I've seen here was +1F. The highest January temperature I saw in Minneapolis was 49F. Here in Monterey it can hit 70F in January and 60s are quite common. Because of our 1900ft elevation vs 800ft elevation in Minneapolis summers are about the same, however, they last much longer here. The Cfa summers are much more consistent. Expect mid 80s with high humidity and afternoon thunderstorms for weeks on end much like the tropics. In the valley it's closer to 90. Yes, it is very lush with lots of reptiles and amphibians.
Many 2020 articles claim that New York City was a continental climate until recently when it switched to humid subtropical. Growing up in the city, for sure the winters are not nearly as harsh as they used to be. Summer seems longer and rather than a gradual Fall, there's no middle ground anymore. It just goes from warm, to cold. Meanwhile, when I was home in the city over the summer, it has never been that humid. Now on the west coast, I'm also interested in how the marine layer in SoCal isn't what it used to be. Where it just goes from the (not so) wet season, to summer without as much May Gray and June Gloom. I suspect in the coming decades, SoCal will be hotter but also a bit wetter in the summer, more influenced by the North American monsoon.
Some great local perspectives there on both coasts
Yeah I think it changed in around 2010 to subtropical and this year it really has seen that way as it’s been the first snowless winter in history😮
It's due island heating effect since Manhattan gets considerably warmer than NY coast.
In mexico city,urbanization also affected the region's climate a lot, it used to be highland oceanic cfb but now falls into semiarid cwa since Spaniards drained the city's lakes.
I think it’s so weird to put New York City’s climate in the same category as Atlanta GA or Houston TX. Yes, NYC winter is very mild, but there’s no way warm enough to be classified subtropical. I think it would be more fitting to put NYC climate to the Oceanic type similar to Seattle.
@@connorplaysgames2401 yup. January was just barely several decimal points above 32F to qualify for a Dfa. Now its Cfa since 1981-2010. Further reinforced in 1991-2020 normals with about 34F in Jan
Too bad we can't forgo the winter and just experience rotating spring and summer with rainfall! Great video though! Love these. I live in Texas, bitter cold in DFW right now. It's funny that just driving 5 hours south to Houston can make such a difference though. I just feel like cold weather is a waste of life though!
Yes, I don't mind the cold in Houston or around the gulf of Mexico because it's much less windy and more mild. . . truly mild not 25 degrees Fahrenheit mild. Every climate has something unique and appreciable, I just prefer to appreciate them as a traveller from a warm place and not a resident of a cold one hehe. My physical body does not seem to be genetically for cold tolerance at all.
I like Miami in Florida actually and would like to go there, but my wife doesn't want to live precisely on the ocean because of storms. Otherwise we'd be very geared up for that. That kind of knocks out Hawaii and Florida.
As a US citizen we can buy land in Costa Rica though which is cool. @@Geodiode
@@coolbluetunes9885 Cool Blue, I agree with your assessment, both quite miserable! Houston is hotter but definitely a nicer city despite pollution. Gardening in Houston is much nicer
@@coolbluetunes9885 Yes I do know what you mean, I'm living in Fort Worth now
The cold winters at the least spare you the tropical diseases. I've lived in Greater Dallas, and one thing that I recall is that winter temperatures are erratic. Even in January temperatures can approach 30 C in conditions typical of a hot desert at that latitude, only to drop to -5 C in a few hours. Once the wind shifts again it's back to warm weather more like Phoenix than like Atlanta. Another of course is that summers are brutally hot, characteristic of subtropical deserts.
Dallas is not hot desert. The frontal storms that graze Phoenix in the winter and bring little rain (they also hit southern California but bring real rain off the Pacific) bring real rain in Dallas from the Gulf of Mexico. Summers get few rainstorms, but those are deluges. It looks like hot semi-desert because a highly-perched escarpment of limestone prevents tress from setting down solid roots. Dallas feels and looks like anything but Cfa, but it is exactly that. The Koeppen classification isn't about human perception.
Dallas is not fully subtropical; it is too chilly for palm trees or alligators.
@@paulbrower4265 Hey Paul! after can ... your response was cutoff, I'd love to read the rest of it
I love this series so much!
I live in Brazil's southeastern region in town 800m above sea level, climate here is described as Cwa. We have a mean annual tempearture on 20°C, the hottest month is february with an average temperature of 30°C and the coolest month being July with 11°C. When the cold air masses from Antarctica reach us with enough force, temperature falls easily to 4°C.
Thanks for checking in sand yes that sounds about right for the climate. Are you near Curitiba or more towards SP?
@@Geodiode I am from the mountains of Minas Gerais, next to Ouro Preto.
You earned my subscription with these videos.
Thanks for this excellent video. It helps in some ways to show the fallibility of this classification system when you think about people who have made life changing decisions to move from climates like New York to end up in something closer to Durban (or the other way) which are so massively different from one another yet earn the same status.
Great point! Have you watched more on this issue in my new video "The Subtropical Question"?
I live in Montevideo and the climate here is subtropical but less extreme than in the northern hemisphere. Here summers are cooler (28° / 18°) and winters are milder (14° / 6°) than in other parts with the same climate.
Some people in China visit Uruguay and Brazil say each day the temperature change a lot. But in China the temperature in a month is very constant.
Olá amigo uruguaio. Brasileiro aqui. Moro no sudeste do Brasil. Nosso clima é mais monçônico, mas varia parecido 30°/19° nos meses mais quentes e 23°/11° nos meses mais frios. No verão chove em média 200mm e no inverno 10mm.
NYC really is subtropical now. It’s just had its first snowless winter In history😮 While it snowed in Los Angeles😂
Yes, I heard about the snow in LA from friends there. Crazy!
Sure was
NYC did not have its “first snowless winter”. It’s had snowless winters before.
Tokyo has the most perfect temperature range I’ve ever seen!
Probably the best type of climate!
Hello all! I live in Dallas/Fort Worth Koppen: Cfa!! Thank you for so much the educational experience!!
You're welcome! And thanks for checking in from the Lone Star State!
I am from São Paulo, Brazil, and it is Cfa climate, in the summer there is so much rain, from January to March, and after that it turns cold and keep colder and colder and drier and drier, at the start of september the hot comes, but it's still dry, but like in the middle of october it starts raining. I'm describing the general conditions, but there are some days of cold in summer, and some hot days in the winter, strange. Well, observing the pattern I think it has influence from Cwa climate.
São Paulo some years are cfa and some years are cwa, its very crazy
I wish my country have this type of climate instead of hot desert :( most of the time I feel myself that I'm lizard not human :(
@@Geodiode I live in Dubai 😔🏜☀️
I’m telling you! Even if you think the hot dessert climate is unbearable, if you spend a week in Washington DC in the summer you’ll realize how lucky you are to not have to deal with the terrible humidity of the Humid Subtropical climate!
@@jackscinema1706 I wish it's dry; unfortunately, it's very humidity also, imagine that, from May until Mid October, the temp between 40 to 50 C with very high of moisture that it reaches more than 80%, add with then the dust storm, the winter is cool to worm, and it's short also from last of December until first of May, last year it didn't rain either :( Really I don't want to live in Dubai
Wow! Well then you’re totally right. I didn’t think any place on earth could have those soaring temperatures and have terrible humidity also.Wow!!😮
@@jackscinema1706 I wish there is some device or some technology can reduce the UV heat and temperature from sun in our place event can change the climate to better and cooler with more rain 🥺 I don't want to live in this hot desert country, most of my time in home until the temperature becoming cooler and better🤷🏻♂️It's really nightmare for me
Hello, I really loved this video, it explains a lot, I learned a lot about the climate I live in, and it's overall very well done. However, I have a big problem with the temperature chart at 10:26 for Guadalajara, Mexico. I don't know where you got that terribly misleading information, but I have to tell you, as a inhabitant of this city, our winters are way colder. In the central district of the city, winters are between 22° and 4° C (71 and 39 F), and the temperature drops significantly in fall. Actually, where I live, is pretty near to the central district of Guadalajara (Zapopan), we usually get as cold as 1°C (33°F), and below freezing temperatures are not rare.
@@Geodiode thank you so much for answering me! Regarding that, yeah I know there can be hotter or colder years, but 10 degrees sounds too high for the minimum on January. Maybe it would help to check the climate chart of the city on the Spanish Wikipedia Article. But again, thank you very much for your video and for explaining it all!
Btw, what is your criteria to separate temperate from continental? 0° or -3°?
@@yaelvacacenteno1382 Well just like in new delhi which has an average low of 7°C and high of 20°C during January, it can too experience temperatures between 0-2°C, can also experience relatively low daytime temperatures, for example on 30th December 2019 due to very dense fog, the high temperature was only 9°C and the low was 5°C, these are just averages, some winters are very warm while some are very cold these apply to all climates, so keep that in mind!, EDIT- Actually i think for the night time you are true, according to weatherspark the average low for Guadalajara during January is 5°C, but the high is still 24°C, it looks like Guadalajara experiences huge temperature differences!
The Sydney yearly temp range was way off aswell. Timestamp- 8.25 . Max 30° c in summer?, I wish. It's over 30°c here now but it's midnight. Those ranges look more Melbourne to me. Sydney gets to like 40ish°c in summer easily.
Makes me wonder when these were taken or what other locations are incorrect
Fuzhou, China
Sits at the boundary of a humid subtropical and monsoon climate. There's a week or two in mid June or July where there's a solid week of rain or so. This is mainly due to the rain shadow effect of the area.
@@Geodiode yes
@@Geodiode also, I feel as though this climate can actually be split into two more variants. New York City and Houston both fall under this climate, but New York City is famous for its snow in the winter while Houston is snow-free on most years. Similar differences are also seen in Wuhan vs Xiamen.
There really should be two more distinctions that would require an extra letter:
Cfac- Humid Subtropical Continental (NYC, Wuhan, DC, etc.)
Cfam- Humid Subtropical Maritime/Oceanic (Houston, Guangzhou, New Orleans)
The difference is big enough to affect agriculture. Texas, Louisiana, and Florida are all famous for various citrus fruits. The oceanic influence keeps the winters warmer and closer to the Csa Mediterranean winter, another climate famous for citrus.
The only caveat is that the oceanic version requires a southern coast near the 30th parallel or so.
The humid subtropical in the southern hemisphere tends to pretty mild (mild summers/mild winters) compared to the humid subtropical in the northern hemisphere.
Probably because the polar vortex is way stronger in the northern hemisphere making the winters colder
Because the ones on the south tend to be warmer versions of oceanic climates while the ones in the north are warmer versions of continental climates
@@greezemonkeythe southern hemisphere is colder overall than the northern hemisphere
@solomon4554
The average temperature would be colder in the south hemisphere, but the seasonal variation (aka continentality) is much larger in the north hemisphere; probably bc there's just much more continental mass in the north hemisphere.
Excellent series!
Great informative video
Glad you liked it thanks!
Dis is my favorite climate, I like Florida, Texas and Louisiana. Tha climate don’t bother me there. 👍🏾👍🏾
I grow up in southern china, it feels really hot in summer, I just hate that your body actually want to sweat, but the moisture formed a water film on the skin already......
You have seen me many times at this point but your videos are so fun to watch! Anyways, my question: Shouldn't this climate be split into two? In the koppen system, Cfa includes a lot of places which have very different winter temperatures, anywhere from 0 to 15 degrees! Eg. Hong Kong is Cfa and borderline Tropical while Eastern Bulgaria is borderline Continental. Both have similar summers but different winters.
You're on the nail. It's a big controversy. So... believe it or not, this will be the subject of the next Climate Casebook.
@@Geodiode 😯😯😯Im already hyped for this! Gee, thanks for the response.
I have a proposal which will solve 2 climate debates. 26 F should be the line between continental climates and temperature climates, but cwb/cfb/csb should be a new type called cool subtropical, which has winters below 32 F but subtropical summers. oceanic, what is now csb, and subtropical highland would end in a c, and subpolar oceanic would end in a d.
@@sreedevisodanapalli1010 Hmm. My idea to this problem is a little different.
This is a bit long but might worth it.
Split the temperate climates into 3, by their summers: Hot/ Subtropical Summer, Temperate Summers and Subpolar summers, defined by the letters A,B and C. Then the precipitation patterns(ill just say S or F to keep things very simple). Third letter stands for winters, which are split into 4, but here is the thing, the hotter the summer, the more likely for winters to be warmer, so each summer type has different winters. For example, the subtypes with their coldest month for Hot summer climates: (higher than 8C, 8-3C, 3- -3C or lower than -3C). The last letter represents this (a,b,c,d)
Temperate summers look like this: (higher than 3C, 3- - 3C, -3 - -10C, lower than -10C) and Subpolar: (-3, -10 and -38 are the split points).
So Afb means Hot summer with winters between 8 and 3 degrees. Well, Bfb has the same winter letter but its winters are between 3 and -3 degrees.
@@shrek8781 I like your idea, but I think summer temperatures shouldn’t have to do with winter isotherms so that things are simpler, climates are easier to compare, and some of those winter isotherms are continental. The continental climates are good as is. I’ve added another Isotherm based off winter temperatures so there could be an A (the a was capital so it wouldn’t be mistaken for the word a)for winter 50f to 64f, b for winter 50f to 32f, and c for 32f to 26f.
So, I have visited Buenos Aires in the winter, and as a Canadian who had to wait for the bus at -30, this is the coldest I've ever felt in my life, save for that time I swam in the lake in October.
I can only describe the feeling as something clenching my diafragm.
Thanks for sharing!
I live in a cwa, in Cordoba Argentina, and it is uncomfortable, the temperatures are irregular, in winter you can have days with minimums of -5 degrees and maximums of 10 degrees, and days with minimums of 10 degrees and maxims of 20, in the summer there are days with 15 degrees of minimum and maximum days that pass 35 degrees celsius, horrible, the only thing I like are the electrical storms of spring and summer, which are sometimes destructive, but they are beautiful
Many cwa climates have constant temerature too.
Yeah, i know how it is, here in Mobile, Alabama, Is the most rainiest city in all the U.S. Usually when it rains in April - September its really humid and hot, like, there are 80°F (26°C) but high humidity (80-90% on storms and 65-75% on rain) makes it feel hotter, maybe 6°F more, then it does feel like 86°F (29°C), however winter are usually cold here, with an average 42°F (5°C) minium and 60°F (15°C) maxium, we don't have that variation, but most days variates with humidity (that makes it really hard to know if its cold or warm), you may know that climate variates a lot, some days are sunny, others are cloudy or rainy. Anyways i've saw that Cordoba has one of the worst climates, so yeah have a good day, afternoon or night ;)
@@BurriDogGT and what about new delhi lol, oh wait so you're saying Cordoba climate's is worst because it can get suddenly cold, suddenly hot in each season?
Europe is the last continent in which the humid subtropical climate comes to mind. But then, I’ve read more about it 😄 some major cities like Belgrade and Venice fall under the Cfa classification
I'll be tackling this subject in my next Climate Casebook in September.
@@Geodiode Also Budapest, the northernmost city with this climate, bordering on both Oceanic climate and continental climate (in the 0C isotherm) I can't imagine Budapest having similar temperature and vegitation to the southern US or Southern, China, and it probably doesn't considering it's borderline climate. in your map in the continental climate video, I appeared, that a lot more of Europe had this climate, which is somewhat true in the 0C isotherm but definately not in the -3C isotherm.
I currently live in Kotor bay area, Montenegro. Climate can be classified as Cfa here. Unlike some places in Europe with Mediterranean climate, summer is relatively wet and rainy here.
Ljubljana definetly humid subtropical
I love all these videos man insanely well done
GeoDiode I’m glad I did too. Best resource on RUclips regarding climate zones, regions and geography of our world climates
Me too.
I've noticed is that in the humid subtropical areas of the indian subcontinent, is that either November or December is the driest months, so in many places winter isn't even the driest period
Koppen is generally an adequate system, but Cfa is one of the areas where it drops the ball. It’s essentially a wastebasket category. Can you tell me a single thing Fuzhou and NYC have in common? Even the wind patterns are utterly different.
Stay tuned for a special upcoming episode "The Subtropical Question", whereby I'll be highlighting this issue.
My favorite type of climate here in the United States. I love long summers, but winters cold enough where you get to appreciate spring. I live in Massachusetts where it’s “humid continental” and the winter tends to drag on too much for my liking.
Thanks for sharing! Not my type, but we're all different!
GeoDiode, Hi👋🏻 ! Watch out ! The Po Valley and Piedmont in the Northern inland plains of Italy doesn't really fit into a humid subtropical climate. Winters are too cold, just above freezing and summers are hot but not as hot as in Atlanta...
Milan 1981-2010 normals :
January : about 2°C (just above freezing)
July : about 24°C (> 22°C)
Milan lies in the Northern limit of the humid subtropical climate. Winters are much colder than in London.
We can say that Milan features a mid latitude, four seasons humid subtropical climate.
Cyprien
I have thought about a fourth letter being added to define winter temperatures in C type climates - For example, Cfa would be divided into two different zones, with Cfaa having hot summers (>22*C) and mild winters (10-18*C), and Cfab still having hot summers (>22*C) but cool winters (0-10*C), which feel very different. I've even thought of changing the third letter to h if the summer temperatures are very hot (
Though, it would be more complicated due to the extra letter
When I said very hot, I meant >30*C
Also belgrade is same as milan. No wat its subtropical. Belgrade is continental as fuck
Yup. The C classification needs a split like instead of C,D,E to be C,D,E,F where C is split into two and all others are moved by one letter. Also, contributing to the Oceanic - Continental thing, I think there should be a transition zone between -3 and 3 degrees
10:42 I'm a but confused. The third letter being 'a' means hot summer, but the graph on the right shows a summer that doesn't look very hot.
It's just over 25 celsius day/night average in the hottest month. Anything over 22 will warrant a Cfa instead of Cfb designation.
@@Geodiode Oh. I was looking at it wrong then and only looking at june/july/august areas like it would be where I live. Oops.
@@dukedex5043 @Duke Dex Southern Hemisphere... everything is 6 months reversed - hottest season is in January!
@@Geodiode By the way, these videos were linked in a lecture by our professor in an ecology based degree in the UK. Not sure if you already know.
In Brazil this climate is seen as the best, mildest one.
Porto Alegre 😄
How's the summers in Sao Paulo?
@@arghakoley8560 in Sao Paulo the summer is hot and winter cool/mild, the hottest days are near 35° while the coldest days close to 0°
@@arghakoley8560 the highest temperature i have ever seen here in sao paulo was 40°, the lowest was -2°
@@pedro.morais Dang Brazil -2 degrees? Definitely not Tropical Climate like I used to think.
Busan and Jeju also belongs here I visited two cities in winter. The temperatures were cool but windy at coastal areas.
Yes, both of those places show as Cfa instead of the usual Dfa of Korea.
Cwa for Southern part of S Korea, rather than the typical Dwa @@Geodiode
Chivilcoy ( Argentina) is Cfa. We have Hot and rain summers and child- dry winters. We seed soya, corn and wheat.
Great to hear a local's perspective. Thanks for checking in from the Pampas(?)
@@Geodiode I'm from Pampas.
São Paulo here!!
@@Geodiode For sure, mainly the high temperatura range in a day, it used to rain more here, i mean 40 yars ago, but the deflorestation in northern region of the country really changed the climate.
Btw tx for asking, recently found the channel an already love the content!!
While I'm glad Atlanta was included those temps from May through September need to be boosted a bit higher than what shows up on this video.
@@Geodiode I've lived here my whole life and trust me when I say the average highs in the Summer and early Fall are way above where they used to be. When I grew up in the 90s the weather was different and normal.
Amazing and visually stunning as usual. Keep it up man.
Plus I wanna add something. Can you be kind enough to let me use some of your clips on my channel?
I live in the area of cwa. Where I live, it hardly snows in winter, occasionally once or twice, but it will soon melt. The summer here is very long. It has started to get warmer in March, and is already hot in April. Spring is very short, while summer lasts for a long time. In October, the temperature is still very high. The average temperature in November is generally above 10 degrees Celsius. Only in late December will the temperature drop. The coldest is January, but the cold weather doesn't last long, usually only a few days, which is tolerable most of the time. The difference between us and cfa is that our winter rainfall is low, usually less than 20 mm in January, and most of the rainfall is in summer and autumn (if any). In other words, we actually only have cold and warm seasons here, and spring, autumn and winter are very difficult to distinguish. Usually, it starts to get warmer in February, and then it lasts until December. I like our climate better, but feel a little cold in winter. I would be very satisfied if it could be warmer and have more rainfall in winter.
Thanks for checking in. Where in the world are you?
@@Geodiode I'm in Central China, about 34 degrees north ^_^
@@edwardgeorge8673 Zhengzhou? One of the northernmost Cwa climate cities in China now along with Qingdao, Shandong
@@perrylim9728 is Qingdao a cwa zone?
@@edwardgeorge8673yes as per 1991-2020 normals
January is now 0.2C average monthly temp in Qingdao.
Hence its no longer a Dwa with coldest month by average temp below 0C, but instead Cwa.
I live in New Jersey so we are Humid Subtropical (Cfa) but just to our north is the Hot Summer Humid Continental Climate and little further north is the Warm Summer version. So year to year weather patterns can really effect how severe our seasons are. Although in recent years it’s been much warmer. Typically our coldest month which is January gets down to 30°F for a mean average monthly temperature yet it was just above 40°F this year. Likewise in summer, our hottest month, July is typically 73°F but last Summer it was 78°F. So the past 12 months here in NJ have felt more like Kentucky. But this past January felt like what they typically get in North Carolina and last year’s July felt like how it normally is in Missouri. Lol
Thanks for sharing the local perspective. I hope you get chance to check out my follow up video to this - "The Subtropical Question".
North Jersey is continental except for Hudson County and around. Hudson County, NJ is classified as Humid Subtropical because is in the coast, and densely populated with a lot of infrastructure which contributes for a few degrees warmer due to the heat island effect. The other night, with this artic blast that even is snowing in Florida, Hudson County had a low of 11°F last night, but Sussex County and Warren County was 6 below zero.
I'm from Brisbane, Australia and it has some of the best weather. I used to think the summer's were too hot and winter's too cold.... Until I lived in both tropical and continental climates, then I discovered what hot and cold truly meant!
I have a question though, you say in the video that humid subtropical is the only climate type found on all inhabited continents... But the other temperate climates are also found on all the inhabited continents, so I'm a bit confused.
@@Geodiode So you're not considering subtropical highlands as oceanic either then?
@@Geodiode makes sense! Thanks for taking the time to reply :)
"I used to think summers were too hot and winters too cold" LMAO... As someone who lives in Brissy as a born an bred Melburnian.. You wouldn't have a clue... This is paradise compares to Melbourne
@@TheAlmightyClipse haha well the point is I used to think. Past tense. The places I've lived since have made even Melbourne seem very temperate.
@@mailh8r211 Subtropical highland is similar to oceanic by temperature. But these two are entirely different climates!
I love this video and love this climate. Like a lot of southern China it’s interesting how a lot of it is under the tropics of cancer, to name a few: Kunming, which runs through the middle of the topic of cancer, Nanning, Zhanjiang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Macau and Hong Kong but have the humid subtropical climate due to the Siberian pressure system that brings cool air part of the Asian Monsoon which I will watch next 😃
They just fall under the requirements for the Tropical wet and dry climates. Due to global warming a few like Zhanjiang May become a tropical climate in the next 20 years unless it is Slowed down. Hainans hardiness zones will go up as well. Despite Hong Kong being subtropical it has hardiness 11, unlike tropical Miami which has hardiness zone 10b.
Thank you for great video.
Hong Kong could soon too. The southernmost parts of Xuwen County of Guangdong is already the cold end of tropical climate now. Even parts of Yunnan are tropical, esp in the low river valleys close to the borders with the SE Asian countries
I am impressed on how the Cfa/Cwa climates host billions and majority of the world's largest cities.
And in countries defined with so many climate types like China, US, Japan a dominant share of their people (at least 50%) would have lived in such a climate zone
But given we have climate change we could expect a bit more people to find themselves on the colder end of this climate zone, on a transition to Dwa/Dfa climates like the Northern, Northeastern United States like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, North China esp Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian and even parts of urban Hokkaido like Sapporo
I'm from Paraguay, we have one of the hottest cfa variations due to being far away from the ocean, in the capital we're kinda in the transition between the humid sub tropical and the wet chaco and we also don't have decidious trees.
Our summers are very hot and super humid, our winters are temperate with few counted weeks when it drops bellow 10° (in the nights it can go bellow 5°) and spring and autumn kinda have this hot days but sometimes it just drops to minumum 15°.
I'm now living in a small town 70 km from Rangpur in Northern Bangladesh, whose climate is classified as Cwa. Summers (average low/high 25C/35C)here are very very very humid and of course very wet, as this region is very heavily influenced by the Indian monsoon. Almost every year it floods in the low-lying areas around my town. Again, winters are mild to cool (average low/high 8C/20C, actually coldest in my tropical country), very foggy, and dry. Personally, my favorite season is autumn, due to its pleasant and mild temperature and comparable low humidity to the summer. summer temperatures here will not kill you, rather here the very high humidity will not let you do anything!
Great to hear such a detailed local perspective. You're not that far from Cherrapunji, which I talk about in my Asian Monsoon video, if you haven't already seen it...
@@Geodiode Yeah, It's quite insane, I also lived in the city of Sylhet, situated just at the foothills of the Hills of Meghalaya, directly below the Cherrapunji. Sylhet indeed is the wettest major city in Bangladesh, with almost 5000 mm (195 inches) annual average precipitation.
Ha! Interesting. I employed the help of a freelancer from Sylhet to help with my marketing of this channel. She did say how much it rains there!
im from south new jersey and summers are hot as hell and humid. In the 80s and 90s.( around 31 c). and the winters are coldish, averaging mid 30s(2c). the spring and fall are very nice
@@Geodiode keep up the great work:)
I wonder how a Soviet general ended up in new jersey, but history can be odd.
I was born and raised in the southeastern U.S. and I still live there so this is definitely the climate type I know the best. My mother grew up in New Jersey 6 miles outside of Manhattan so you could see the Empire State and Chrysler buildings out the window of my grandmother’s house. I moved to NYC after I graduated from a college outside of Cleveland, Ohio. It’s odd to me that New York has the same climate type as Atlanta. I’ve lived in both for many years and I’ve gotta say that New York seemed to have more in common with the humid continental climate in Cleveland than the humid subtropical in Atlanta. I remember getting 37 inches of snow in the 28 days of February 2010 when I was in New York. In Atlanta we can go 2 or 3 years without seeing any snow.
Also NYC have two type of climates it have a humid continental and subtropical climate because it's too cold in winter that's why it's classified as humid continental but summer are hot and humid that's why it's classified as subtropical climate
@@KSubscribersWithoutAnyVi-yj4ld A city can't have two types of climate, really. It either is or isn't.
1) Cleveland averages much colder than New York, with much more snow. I think NYC is slightly more like Atlanta than Cleveland in temperature, aside from precipitation patterns
2) Subtropical climates in Japan get tons of snow, more than the east coast of the US. New York averages only 9 inches of snow in February, so please don't attempt to pass off your experience as normal. It's not. I'm constantly annoyed by people who use extremes to characterize climates - you know it's an extreme, right? It's not representative of the average conditions of February in New York City?
@@decrox13 Yes but Februaries in NYC are much closer to those in Cleveland (or Boston) than in Atlanta in my experience. So that doesn't change the point I was trying to make.
@@stephenbrand5661 "Your experience" is narrow and is not necessarily at all representative of what is typical or average for New York, so that assertion is irrelevant. New York City is not more similar to Cleveland in climate. The statistics, and therefore the reality, prove that.
The Cfa climate of europe should be considered one of its own grouping apart from the Cfa of China and USA.
Since its generally more northern shifted in latitude and the continentality is less, because western Europe is near the sea
As for the Cfa of Northern Italy i would describe it as.. Yes Humid in feeling.. As you perceive more coldness in winter (due to humidity) but also more hotness in summer (due to humidity)
Well, in Brazil's south Cfa, the winter is a bit dry than the summer. The summer is VERY hot.
I would also like to remark the foggyness of the Po plain in Italy. I think it is due to Cfa climate
Well, there is a lot of variation within this climate type, so you could make the same argument for northern India, which has a different temperature and precipitation pattern from all other regions with this climate. It’s the only area with this climate that has summer daily maximum temperatures above 100*F or 38*C, but “summer” occurs in April, May, and June, then monsoon season happens in July and August
I live in a Cfa area and the summers SUCK! The humidity makes it miserable.
This is so untrue that the Balkan zone in Europe - countries like Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania - has "humid subtropical climate", it's actually laughable, no heavily populated area, on the contrary, no rice, no subtropical crops, nothing similar or close to China climate....It's just continental, with a very very mild mediterranean influence.
26° latitude in Southwest Florida. We used to have an actual winter, but this started changing in the 1990s. Now it's almost no winter, just a cooler, drier season of 3 months with a few cold days. The summers are much worse than when I was a kid. The geoengineering is everywhere.
I HAVE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. So this classification is just saying that its cold enough to NOT GET ANY snow but hot enough to be like tropics right cause Florida and Kentucky don't really seem to be similar except those two factors (with Florida barely having any cold days)
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Thank you!
In China people view these 2 as 2 different climates. One is middle China climate one is South China climate.(Hong Kong /Hainan)
The line must be drawn somewhere, and Koeppen chose two factors:
1. potential vegetation. A place like Dallas has summers almost as hot as those of subtropical deserts (Tucson is a good analogue for temperature) but it has mid-latitude vegetation. Its winters are too cold for palm trees (oddly, San Francisco, mild all year, has palm trees and looks tropical).
2. persistent weather at least for a season. The C-D line roughly divides places in which snows not only happen but can take weeks to melt. In such areas the snow creates its own climatic effect by intensifying the cooling above it. That is where the coldest month averages -3F. Why -3F and not 0F? An average temperature of 0F implies that a part of the day allows some melting of snow on the average day of the coldest month Thus a blizzard that hits Chicago (Dfa) will leave snow that might not disappear for a couple months in the middle of winter. Around St. Louis or Indianapolis that is iffy. Around Nashville snowstorms are possible, but the snow from those is likely to be gone in a week or so. Bare ground allows the sun to warm it, so a place like Nashville might get very cold, but not for long.
I would be tempted to subdivide the C climates at an average of 10C (paradoxically that would put San Francisco, which is in the mild-summer Mediterranean zone, in the "hotter" classification and Dallas in the "cooler-winter" classification. I am familiar with climates in Detroit (Dfa, northern Michigan (Dfb), Dallas (Cfa), Phoenix (BWh) and San Francisco (Csb) for having spent considerable time around them. Koeppen does not consider what people think of their local climates. But agriculture is everything.
Oh, yes -- as for climate change, it is real. Winters are getting shorter and less severe in southern Michigan, and I have experienced years with climatic conditions typical of Cfa and even Csa (summer drought) climates. Such may be portents of what is coming.
@@paulbrower4265 yea I think you meant -3°C and 0°C, as -3°F = -19.4°C and 0°F= -17.7°C
@@mayankkumar4161 Yes. it should have been C and not F.
It always feels strange that New York City is classified as humid subtropical; we get so many frigid Jan. and Feb. days (today included!). But our winters are somewhere between the daily bone-chilling cold of upstate NY or Vermont and the refreshing, cool winter days of (say) North Carolina. And our summers are distinctly "Southern": intensely humid and the heat seems to last almost five months (mid-May to mid-October).
Have you seen my recent video "The Subtropical Question"? It goes into more detail on the points you make.
@@Geodiode Yes, very interesting! It's always difficult to assign categories to what is really a spectrum.
I lived in Tokyo for a while, and I gotta say, I much prefer the weather in Tokyo than in Phoenix! The incessant rain was dreary at times, but I’d take a rainy place over a dry one any day.
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I’m always saying the same!
Growing up in the fucked up middle east but spent all of my summers in Europe, I’m sure I’m gone move to Europe.
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I forgot to mention but doesn't New Delhi lies between a transition zone of a Hot Semi Arid Climate and Humid Subtropical Monsoonal One?
Yes, it's on the borderline there because of the relatively low annual rainfall
@@Geodiodewhether the city is in BSh or Cwa dependent on how much proportion of the annual rainfall in the summer months of Apr-Sep for NHEM where New Delhi is and the annual mean temperature of the city in this case 25.9C
280 if 70% or more of the total precipitation is in the spring and summer months, which New Delhi fits.
Hence 25.9x20+280 = 798. 798mm is the threshold that divides Cwa from BSh, hence New Delhi is now BSh, with a rainfall in 1991-2020 at 774mm.
I am from South Florida in the United States. In the video I seen how other states like Georgia and South Carolina were grouped in the same category; but I can tell you first hand that Florida uniquely has a much hotter climate than any other southeast regional state.
Check out my newer video "The subtropical question" which goes more into the problem with this climate classification
Hello bossman. You should talk about how the warming of certain areas in Europe see that they are becoming subtropical as well Like the new normal for Budapest, Hungary which show that they now have regular 1 to 2 months with a mean above 22C that should be interesting as it would be the most northern major city with such a climate classification.
Bratislava, being further north than Budapest, is now Cfa too.
@@solomon4554 Its also the coldest month by average temp, like in this case January, its above 0C.
Qualifies for a Cfa rather than a D climate.
Austria's capital Vienna's downtown is also a Cfa climate!
Howdy from below the Arbuckle mts. One of the only horizontal mountains in western hemisphere. They do alter the climate. Southeastern heading storms either dissipate or reorganize at I35 and reform at US75. In between is a somewhat different system. Looking at the rainfall totals for the dust bowl drought this small section actually received it’s normal rainfall. Also I35 which aligns with the western boundaries of the Arbuckles has a very different fauna and Floria on the east than the west south of the arbuckles.
Interesting, yes practically all western hemisphere mountain ranges are N-S approximately.
Is that in Oklahoma, W of OKC?
the himalayas in india also come under humid subtropical climate?
They are a transition from Humid Subtropical through Subtropical Highland, then Alpine Tundra (Tibet).
the himalayas in india come under temperate wet or temperate dry climate (at altitude of 1500 metres or more)
I live in the southeast corner of New York, in the suburbs where our January average is 31°Fahrenheit (-.5 C) and I would put my location in humid subtropical. I don’t think it’s great that we are in the same zone as, say, Washington DC or Atlanta as the Cfa is too broad. We are firmly cfa for the 27F isotherm (-3C) and will soon likely be cfa when using the 32 or 0C isotherm when the 1991-2020 Climate data is out. The past few years we have seen consistently warmer winters with less snow. Just 5.2 inches of snow in my town this winter, and 6 days of snow cover. I love these warmer winters (even though we have had lots of rain and some thunderstorms). I live in an interesting climate a few miles inland in NY (Lower Hudson Valley) The summers are pretty dry due to the costal location and Appalachian mountains suppressing thunderstorm development, so we get 2.3 inches of rain only in our driest month, June, and 2.7 in July, compared to 49 inches annually. It’s a very rare Cfa/Dfa/Csa borderline case. Our summers are hot, 86 F (30 C), but not humid until the hurricane season becomes more active in August. Overall pretty pleasant, not too extreme climate, although we have pretty much rain year round, other than the aforementioned relative dryness in June and July, and the occasional snow day in winter, though it usually melts rather quickly, at least in my lifetime.
washington dc is nearly identical to nyc in terms of weather
31F is like -1 C and not -5 C.
@@georgyzhukov6409 True
@@hi-gj2qi Indeed at Central Park, Jan bottoms out at 1C, more than enough to qualify for Cfa in the 1991-2020 normals
6:20 - NorthEastern Argentina (including Buenos Aires) and Uruguay not only by major ancestry resemble with Italian (mainly from North Italy), also climate resembled with North Italy aka Padania climate because both belongs to Cfa climate.
That's correct, and a connection I had not thought about until now...
Hello, Nice vídeo:-)!!
I live in Campo Grande MS and te wheater is subtropical Cfa, but in the Köppen climate of Brazil the wheater is Aw but i think is because of the biome but is more like a grassland then a savannah, but i saw in this video and the Map that of video, campo grande MS is include in the Cfa subtropical as i said before, geo may you answer me?
Ola! Campo Grande is firmly within the tropical climate zone, because its average annual temperature is 22°C (the boundary between tropical and subtropical is 18°C). The Koppen map in this video is out of date. Please see the new map on the website: geodiode.com/climate/humid-subtropical
mano campo grande é AW olha os dados do instituto de meteorologia! é muito quente pra ser subtropical, unico lugar do MS que eh cwa eh no sul
@@samerserhan474 oii😊, não, no sul do ms abrange o cfa e não o cwa.
very good video. gave greater insights
I've been very curious what construction method fits this climate the best for longevity
Delhi's Climate can be extreme sometimes its drops to 1°C in winter and rises above 40°C in summer
I couldn't bear those months in April-May! Way too hot!
@@Geodiode even June's hot too but more humid
@@Geodiode however this April was really cold! On April 3rd the the temperature dipped to 11°C
@@namitajimmy6737 that is really interesting. It's been a very cold few months here in the UK too. The coldest April in 60 years actually.
@@Geodiode Forgot to mention but in May the temperature dipped to 19°C! And on June 1st the temperature dipped to record low 17.9°C it's because of that western disturbances and also a cyclone! However Instead it was pretty hot in Early July/Late June! Temperature reached 43°C on July 1st
Hello there! May I know the name of the background music in the opening montage? thanks in advance
Hi - all the music in this series can be found in a special video here: ruclips.net/video/sJL8BGKcrNU/видео.html
Hello b. J ranson again this is radhakrishnan, I have a following question, could you explain 1.if earth 50 °tilte and earth rotates east to West, how would be earth climate 2.if all the continent is in below equator, how would be earth climate, please explain critically
Also in France between Lyon-Valence (middle Rhone valley) a somewhat degraded Csa/Cfa climate i would say and Toulouse area.
Yes, it's in a hybrid zone there. A very warm Oceanic climate with Mediterranean influence.
@@Geodiode 1991-2020 normals even say Toulouse is Cfa
Just wondered the definition of subtropical regions. Can those regions grow subtropical plants outdoor? Tropical have small range of diurnal temp
The 10C/50F January isotherm is a good approximation of the line between the true temperate zone and the true subtropics. Dallas lies just north of that line, and it looks mid-latitude. Austin and Houston are south of that line, and they are subtropical.
best climate imo
I'm from Northeast India and we have Cwa climate in most of North India. Hot and humid summers and mild dry winters.
i think it's missing Hanoi -Vietname because I live in Hanoi. Hanoi has very cold and windy winters. The highest summer temperature is 40°C . The lowest winter temperature is 2°C . Occasionally Hanoi also has frost
does it always snow in hanoi when winter?
Hanoi's record low is literally multiple degrees above freezing.
Hanoi is just a bit colder than Aw like Guangzhou or Hong Kong.
Lmao do you even know what cold means ???
It's 2.7°C so basically 3°C.
You didn't mention that this climate is also found in a small portion of South-Eastern Bolivia, being the only low altitude temperate climate of the country.
I live in Milan, which has a Cfa climate and i HATE summers, evrything is humid and feels sticky
I have lived near Atlanta but I was too young to really remember the weather.
Actually I remembered something: the thunderstorms over there were typically more intense than here in the Netherlands although the last decade this seems to be changing as the climate here has gotten slightly warmer.
@@PeterSwinkels The climate in the Netherlands hasn't gotten slightly warmer in the Netherlands and the countries frequency of thunderstorm activity is lower than Atlanta's.
@@decrox13 : I said the thunderstorms appear to have increased not that the number was the same as in Atlanta. The weather hasn't gotten warmer? Based on what data?
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