Rate the Climate: Macquarie Island (snowfall, hot, warm, averages)
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Macquarie Island comes up a fair bit in discussions but I don't think it's been rated yet.
It's located in the Southern Ocean about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. The persistent westerly trade winds bring very frequent precipitation and cloud, with 856 hours of sunshine annually and 3.5 clear days a year. There is also very little diurnal or seasonal variation and while extreme cold is rare an average wind speed of 31 km/h makes temperatures feel a lot colder.
At sea level snow occurs about 80 times per year, hail 65 times and a thunderstorm is observed 1 time per year, on average. Humidity is generally in excess of 80%.
The seasons are very muted. There is no winter here, and definitely no summer, either. It's cool and rainy year-round, in what can be called a "ultra-maritime" climate. It certainly gets a big plus for never getting too hot for me (or even warm, come to think of it), as well being among the few places in the world where I'd never need air conditioning. It also gets a lesser minus for never really getting cold. Sunshine is no problem, either.
In the end I give this a rating of C+, for being perpetually mild (never really warm or cold), but still cool, rainy, and occasionally snowy, and for it being cloudy and stormy. Despite the huge number of rainy days, the amount of rain presents no problem.
F. What a manky shithole. This climate is everything I can't stand. Endless drizzly cold, windswept overcast crap, no thunderstorms, no heat, no humidity, no dry spells, nothing but endless grey stratus layer cloud bull****.
My hatred for this dump cannot be expressed in words.
What is the annual snowfall and how many days a year does it have lying snow on average? If I know this info, I can give a more accurate grade.
Probably very low at low lying areas but very high at high lying areas. A bit like the BI, always a few degrees and snow levels increase substantially which is just unfortunate.
Campbell is at least as bad for me. Cloudier still and wetter, though also a bit warmer.
How far apart are Campbell and Macquarie? They look relatively close as far as I can tell but the climates seem much more different than I'd expect, particularly the sun hours.
How far apart are Campbell and Macquarie? They look relatively close as far as I can tell but the climates seem much more different than I'd expect, particularly the sun hours.
710km according to a distance calculator. Campbell is somewhat NE of MacQuarie. I think its airflows on the whole are moister and warmer than those at MacQuarie, but I haven't seen any literature on variations of climate within the southern ocean storm belts.
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