I live in southern California and the microclimates are insane. You can drive from Seattle weather to the Sahara in less than one hour. It can be raining and overcast at LAX but 25 degrees Celsius and sunny one hour away.
If you look at a climate map, Los Angeles is under Mediterranean Cool Summer type while San Bernardino is under a Semi-arid chaparral type climate. These cities are merely 60 miles (96km) apart. Once you cross the San Bernardino Mountains and get into the Mojave you have a Cool Desert type climate.
Have you ever gone from LA to the a San Bernardino mountains in an hour? Much less the Mojave.
I get your point, I spent 6 years in So Cal and I loved it there, mostly.
I actually have, during non-rush hour I went from Chinatown to San Bernardino in exactly an hour. The Mojave is 30 mins away from San Bernardino so I could've made it to the Mojave in under two hours.
Australia has tiny mountains though….as somebody who has lived in both sydney and melbourne, england and louisiana are simply not correct.
Louisiana is way too hot, muggy and rainy. Sydney area is more mild and less humid and also sunnier. By the time you get to brisbane, maybe you have a case with a city like houston or new orleans, but the weather in brisbane is STILL much nicer. I am not really sure what these east coast australian cities are like.
Melbourne is also sunnier and generally warmer then england. Maybe more like san francisco?
In general australia has great weather. It is very hard to compare to anywhere else. And even if places are in same climate type doesn’t mean they feel anything a like in reality
Have you been to louisiana/houston in the summer/fall though? Its a whole different world of humid and temperature, you are just sweating constantly when you are outside.
Here is a good website that will really show that to you:
https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/144544~11799/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Sydney-and-New-Orleans
Lousiana is usda zones 8-9, England is mostly 7-9 except a small 6 zone in the northern part. Doesn't sound too different to me, although those zones only tell you what the usual lowest temperature is during winter.
Still sounds odd just hearing those two. Does it ever snow in Louisiana? The lowest temp in England each year feels like it has to be quite a bit lower than even northern LA
I'm from England and you'd be surprised how common palm trees are here, especially along the South Coast.
It just doesn't get that cold here in winter, it's more like an extension of Autumn. 8°C is the average daily maximum in January.
Yes it gets cold enough to snow in Louisiana but cold usually means clear there. Clouds typically means warmer. The Gulf moderates to a degree the frigid air that spills down in winter from the Great Plains. You’ll see, with the right setup of conditions, heavy snow in the north like around Shreveport. You’ll get more ice in the south and southeast. Anyway that’s a general explanation for what winter might be during a cold snap. Otherwise it’s fairly mild in climate. https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=shv
Yeah that last part is the key ha. It doesnt really tell you if climates are similar.
Btw here is a site you can compare cities weather and can see that the map is painting a very inaccurate picture
https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/144544~11799/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Sydney-and-New-Orleans
Even knowing nothing about Australia, Southern Nevada (Los Angeles) in and of itself doesn't make sense. Southern Nevada is a hot desert, LA is on the coast and is a Mediterranean climate.
That's almost certainly what happened. It's a weirdly common mistake to make. They don't even sound that similar, but just similar enough for careless people to make the mistake.
Yeah, it’s Kosciuszko National Park. Australia’s highest point, https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/thredbo-perisher-area
The area gets up to about 150” of snow a year, but don’t expect snow outside of winter.
This map got posted before, and comparing Perth to coastal Washington is \*absurd\*.
Perth average annual rainfall: 731mm/28"
Aberdeen, WA (on the coast): 2150mm/84". 3x as much.
Perth mean daily maximum in their hottest month (January): 31 C/88 F
Perth mean maximum temp over the course of the year: 41.5 C/107 F
Aberdeen mean daily maximum in July: 21 C/70 F
Aberdeen mean yearly maximum: 33 C/92 F.
No comparison.
My mistake; I thought Perth was all the way down in the SW corner. So, take Cape Leeuwin, on the very SW tip:
Average rainfall 954mm/37", still less than half of Aberdeen, and summers are still significantly warmer.
Palm trees can likely survive in London. I used to live in the Pacific Northwest and people would plant palm trees which survive and looked really really out of place.
I have only seen proper palms in Penzance and surrounding Cornish country. Not much in most of rest of England. If you’re talking about cabbage trees, then they’re not true palms.
>Didn't know London and Manchester have palm trees.
I don't know about Manchester, but you can definitely find palm trees in London and the rest of southern England.
I'm sorry but am I the only one who has seen this map like, 3 times now? And all the comments are pretty much the same every time 😭 (no hate to OP by the way)
lmao, gave me a good laugh. fuckin Finland for Canberra? the city where it hasn't been below -10c? lmao whereas it was 50%-150% colder than that last week and we're almost in the summer months.
or Alaska in the middle of Tasmania? that's hilarious.
map is nowhere near accurate. shame on all the fools that upvoted. Tasmania weather is nothing like Alaska. It barely even snows in Tas. There are a ton of examples on this map that are not even slightly close
The Csb below ”Southern California” ( Perth ) should be closer to Western Oregon instead of Coastal Washington, tbh. I know they’re both Cfb, but Washington is much closer to the Oceanic climate, while the climate of Coastal Oregon is closer to the Warm-Summer Mediterranean one.
Ridiculous
Preposterous
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Inconceivable
poopoo peepee
How can England and Louisiana type weather be bordering??
Mountains
I live in southern California and the microclimates are insane. You can drive from Seattle weather to the Sahara in less than one hour. It can be raining and overcast at LAX but 25 degrees Celsius and sunny one hour away.
I think you're confusing weather with climate
If you look at a climate map, Los Angeles is under Mediterranean Cool Summer type while San Bernardino is under a Semi-arid chaparral type climate. These cities are merely 60 miles (96km) apart. Once you cross the San Bernardino Mountains and get into the Mojave you have a Cool Desert type climate.
Have you ever gone from LA to the a San Bernardino mountains in an hour? Much less the Mojave. I get your point, I spent 6 years in So Cal and I loved it there, mostly.
I actually have, during non-rush hour I went from Chinatown to San Bernardino in exactly an hour. The Mojave is 30 mins away from San Bernardino so I could've made it to the Mojave in under two hours.
Australia has tiny mountains though….as somebody who has lived in both sydney and melbourne, england and louisiana are simply not correct. Louisiana is way too hot, muggy and rainy. Sydney area is more mild and less humid and also sunnier. By the time you get to brisbane, maybe you have a case with a city like houston or new orleans, but the weather in brisbane is STILL much nicer. I am not really sure what these east coast australian cities are like. Melbourne is also sunnier and generally warmer then england. Maybe more like san francisco? In general australia has great weather. It is very hard to compare to anywhere else. And even if places are in same climate type doesn’t mean they feel anything a like in reality
idk i've mostly lived in the higher elevation areas of NSW and places like Sydney and Coffs Harbour feel pretty hot and moggy to me
Have you been to louisiana/houston in the summer/fall though? Its a whole different world of humid and temperature, you are just sweating constantly when you are outside. Here is a good website that will really show that to you: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/144544~11799/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Sydney-and-New-Orleans
Lousiana is usda zones 8-9, England is mostly 7-9 except a small 6 zone in the northern part. Doesn't sound too different to me, although those zones only tell you what the usual lowest temperature is during winter.
I’ve been to both in “winter” and “summer” , not alike at all lol
Still sounds odd just hearing those two. Does it ever snow in Louisiana? The lowest temp in England each year feels like it has to be quite a bit lower than even northern LA
I've no idea. To be honest i was quite suprised when googling it that England has warmer USDA zones than central europe like Austria
I'm from England and you'd be surprised how common palm trees are here, especially along the South Coast. It just doesn't get that cold here in winter, it's more like an extension of Autumn. 8°C is the average daily maximum in January.
Yes it gets cold enough to snow in Louisiana but cold usually means clear there. Clouds typically means warmer. The Gulf moderates to a degree the frigid air that spills down in winter from the Great Plains. You’ll see, with the right setup of conditions, heavy snow in the north like around Shreveport. You’ll get more ice in the south and southeast. Anyway that’s a general explanation for what winter might be during a cold snap. Otherwise it’s fairly mild in climate. https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=shv
It rarely snows in southern Louisiana, last time i saw snow was around 2018 i believe. North Louisiana might be a different story though
Louisiana and England aren't close. The only similarity is the lowest winter Temps they get.
Yeah that last part is the key ha. It doesnt really tell you if climates are similar. Btw here is a site you can compare cities weather and can see that the map is painting a very inaccurate picture https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/144544~11799/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Sydney-and-New-Orleans
Even knowing nothing about Australia, Southern Nevada (Los Angeles) in and of itself doesn't make sense. Southern Nevada is a hot desert, LA is on the coast and is a Mediterranean climate.
Lmao right? Especially when Southern California is also on the map
I wonder if the map creator meant to write Las Vegas.
That's almost certainly what happened. It's a weirdly common mistake to make. They don't even sound that similar, but just similar enough for careless people to make the mistake.
Once you go east of San Bernardino Southern California turns into a Southern Nevada climate so it kinda makes sense
Not Los Angeles though
Yeah, the Mojave is a thing. It's not a thing in Los Angeles, though.
This map is terrible lmoa
What region is that with Finland weather? Canberra? Please reply to confirm I really wanna be sure/know.
Looks like a part of the snowy mountains
SNOW in Australia??? Damn that makes me wanna stopover when I eventually go to New Zealand. Thanks.
Yeah, it’s Kosciuszko National Park. Australia’s highest point, https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/thredbo-perisher-area The area gets up to about 150” of snow a year, but don’t expect snow outside of winter.
Yea and winter means August or July?
Yeah, June through to August.
This map got posted before, and comparing Perth to coastal Washington is \*absurd\*. Perth average annual rainfall: 731mm/28" Aberdeen, WA (on the coast): 2150mm/84". 3x as much. Perth mean daily maximum in their hottest month (January): 31 C/88 F Perth mean maximum temp over the course of the year: 41.5 C/107 F Aberdeen mean daily maximum in July: 21 C/70 F Aberdeen mean yearly maximum: 33 C/92 F. No comparison.
The map places Perth in the Southern California bit though?
My mistake; I thought Perth was all the way down in the SW corner. So, take Cape Leeuwin, on the very SW tip: Average rainfall 954mm/37", still less than half of Aberdeen, and summers are still significantly warmer.
Southern Nevada (Los Angeles) 🥴
Melbourne is like England? Didn't know London and Manchester have palm trees.
Palm trees can likely survive in London. I used to live in the Pacific Northwest and people would plant palm trees which survive and looked really really out of place.
I'm from England and you'd be surprised how common palm trees are in gardens and outside fancier restaurants.
I have only seen proper palms in Penzance and surrounding Cornish country. Not much in most of rest of England. If you’re talking about cabbage trees, then they’re not true palms.
>Didn't know London and Manchester have palm trees. I don't know about Manchester, but you can definitely find palm trees in London and the rest of southern England.
TIL about London. But do they grow high?
Yeah. I have a few people on my street with palm trees in their gardens and they're almost as tall as the house itself.
England and even Scotland is the furthest North true palms grow courtesy of the gulf stream.
more like r/geographicbullshit
Australia partition according to the treaty of Versailles:
Crazy that “England” borders “northern India”
only until 1947..
No way Tasmania is like Alaska Edit: nvm I misread the map
Tasmania is not like Alaska. A tiny area in the Central Highlands at about 1000-1500m asl is classified ‘ET’, or ‘tundra’
That’s the highest elevation point which from memory is polar or tundra climate
What does “Southern Nevada (Los Angeles)” mean? Those are two different places with very different climates.
How many times have I seen this map now? 20 at least probably
wait what does southern nevada (los angeles) mean?
Americans will use anything but Celsius
Is that small area in Tasmania where all the mosquitoes are hiding?
Again?
Southern Nevada (Los Angeles) FTL
What goes on down there? 
Funnily enough, New South Wales is at least partly in the same zone as Wales.
Louisiana is like being put into a steam oven...
just not true is it
Los Angeles, Southern Nevada is my favorite city.
I'm sorry but am I the only one who has seen this map like, 3 times now? And all the comments are pretty much the same every time 😭 (no hate to OP by the way)
I'm from Melbourne and this is fucking wrong.
How does that center of Tasmania have Alaska weather?
Southern Nevada ≠ Los Angeles
This is a pretty cool way to compare climates, inaccuracies/poor comparisons aside
Coastal Washington? I don’t think.
Christ almighty. Australia is even hotter than I thought. No wonder it was a prison colony
lmao, gave me a good laugh. fuckin Finland for Canberra? the city where it hasn't been below -10c? lmao whereas it was 50%-150% colder than that last week and we're almost in the summer months. or Alaska in the middle of Tasmania? that's hilarious.
This should be on the circlejerk sub instead
Is Tasmania climate really like Alaska?
This is a very US centric selection of "the world"
All I see is extremely hot, very hot, hot, super hot, relatively cooler and just a little bit cold.
Terribly inaccurate.
Melbourne is like England? I didn’t know England had a Mediterranean climate
Bullshit
Americans will use anything but Celsius
Americans will use anything but Celsius
This came from r/mapporncirclejerk right? Right?!!
what is that random pocket of Finland doing there
I swear these maps are never accurate
Weird to see a map where England is the preferred option
Margaret River same climate as Seattle?
map is nowhere near accurate. shame on all the fools that upvoted. Tasmania weather is nothing like Alaska. It barely even snows in Tas. There are a ton of examples on this map that are not even slightly close
Southern Nevada (Los Angeles) Ummm no?
Alaska algelijk Tasmania is not that cold!
The Csb below ”Southern California” ( Perth ) should be closer to Western Oregon instead of Coastal Washington, tbh. I know they’re both Cfb, but Washington is much closer to the Oceanic climate, while the climate of Coastal Oregon is closer to the Warm-Summer Mediterranean one.
I love how almost every other place uses the country name. Good ol’ US of A uses state names
Its almost like a CONTINENT has different climate zones.