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Apparently, snow is totally unheard in Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, Ca.
Remarkable, considering it's at 37.7N, in the Northern Hemisphere, in the USA!
It depends on what you mean by no snow -whether it's no snow at all ... ever, or snow very rarely.
My area sees snow rarely -less common than either Wellington or Hobart. It got about half an inch in 2011, Last time before that was in 1973, then 1945, and then nothing until the late 1800s. Some areas around here, have no account of snowfall at all.
The area is quite a bit colder than Wellington or Hobart though, and with higher rainfall, but all we really get in Southerlies is dry cold air.
Bishops rock ,Isles of Scillly at 49 degrees north is the one i have heard about even though snow has fallen on the islands nearby more than once over the decades .
On a greater scale , i'd say the Azores at sea level has never ,ever seen snow . 37'N
It depends on what you mean by no snow -whether it's no snow at all ... ever, or snow very rarely.
My area sees snow rarely -less common than either Wellington or Hobart. It got about half an inch in 2011, Last time before that was in 1973, then 1945, and then nothing until the late 1800s. Some areas around here, have no account of snowfall at all.
The area is quite a bit colder than Wellington or Hobart though, and with higher rainfall, but all we really get in Southerlies is dry cold air.
I realise you said this almost two years ago but I didn't read it until now.
That's what I don't get about your oceanic climate: how can the southerlies be dry? Shouldn't they be moist, coming from the Southern Ocean and all?
I realise you said this almost two years ago but I didn't read it until now.
That's what I don't get about your oceanic climate: how can the southerlies be dry? Shouldn't they be moist, coming from the Southern Ocean and all?
My area is a southerly rain shadow, as mountains are to the south, west, and east, so apart from the occasional heavy lasting only a few minutes, southerly flows are more typically dry and cold, or dry and hot.
Even in areas exposed to southerly rainfall, the generally colder air means the rainfall is quite light and short lived. Heavy rain in NZ comes from subtropical(ex tropical) systems, or from warm fronts embedded in polar lows.
My area is a southerly rain shadow, as mountains are to the south, west, and east, so apart from the occasional heavy lasting only a few minutes, southerly flows are more typically dry and cold, or dry and hot.
Even in areas exposed to southerly rainfall, the generally colder air means the rainfall is quite light and short lived. Heavy rain in NZ comes from subtropical(ex tropical) systems, or from warm fronts embedded in polar lows.
It just strikes me as odd. Certainly I cannot think of other oceanic climates in a rain shadow; the shadow usually transmogrifies them.
What's the closest weather station representative of your climate? If I could look at the topography I might be able to understand it a bit more.
It just strikes me as odd. Certainly I cannot think of other oceanic climates in a rain shadow; the shadow usually transmogrifies them.
What's the closest weather station representative of your climate? If I could look at the topography I might be able to understand it a bit more.
Much of the UK is in a rain shadow.
Their is a big rain shadow effect here from mountains south, east and west, where rainfall reaches up to 5000mm, but this area gets most of it's rain from a NE/N/NW direction, so doesn't have the semi arid look of other rain shadows regions in NZ.
Nelson is the closest official station.
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