Climate Battle: Sochi, Russia vs. Roseburg, OR (averages, temperature, inches)
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Originally Posted by EverBlack
0.11 inches of precipitation in a month to me is a desert.
I live in a real desert, and a dry season doesn't a desert make. Because of the way a water table works, if a climate has a summer or winter bias, plants and soil can use moisture retained from the wet season in the dry season. Where here, even in our most "humid" month, December, evaporation still exceeds rainfall, so we run a year long water deficit
I got what you mean! There are people who say London's winters are warmer than the U.S. South just because it has warmer record lows (all they look at is the record low).
Pretty much all the vegetation that you see in the Sochi streetview you can grow in Roseburg too minus the CIDP and CIDP does grow in nearby Brookings
I am aware of that, but even though Roseburg has a "subtropical" climate they don't utilize to it's full potential as is done in Sochi. Roseburg mainly plants native plants and those from more continental climates.
It really annoys me to see how much warmer places of the same latitude are than my city. Oh well, there's always Vladivostok and southern Nova Scotia.
This is actually a really tough battle for me. Sochi is slightly warmer but I suspect Roseburg has at least a 300 hr sun advantage, so I will withhold my judgement.
Same, Upstate NY is around the same latitude as these two cities but its winters are like 10-13c colder! Such bs my friend. Their winters at like the late spring up here
It's weird, I see an overwhelming preference on these forums for wet, cloudy summers. Odd. I guess there's no accounting for taste but for me the endless sunny dry days of a west coast summer are heaven.
I see too much preference for four season climates. I'm sorry I don't like freezing snow and -20° weather or insufferable humid summers with 15 inches of rain a month
I am aware of that, but even though Roseburg has a "subtropical" climate they don't utilize to it's full potential as is done in Sochi. Roseburg mainly plants native plants and those from more continental climates.
It's true. I think it has to do with gardening culture. I noticed that here in Vancouver and surrounding areas seems to plant more broadleaf evergreens and trachycarpus palms than the rest of the PNW. The reason for the difference has to do with the context of the climate in the country as a whole. For instance, Sochi area and Vancouver area are the warmest areas of Russia and Canada respectively which are very cold winter countries as a whole. People want to show that with warmer looking vegetation. Whereas PNW in USA is not seen as such and is seen as a rather cold and damp place and people plant vegetation there to reflect that mindset. That's my theory anyways.
Roseburg for the dry summers, less rain and also for being sunnier (I think?). Sochi is humid in the summer and it's way too wet all year round. It's still the best climate in Russia though.
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