>> You know what would be really helpful? A worldwide climate zone map.
Annie, I agree strongly! The "Koppen climate system" was someone's attempt to create a global climate map with SOME attention to agriculture, like "similar things should be able to grow in similar regions". However, it is SO detailed that the same US county might have three different Koppen climate zones within it.
Hi, Thehazell, and welcome to ATP!
I think that “Saratoga, New South Wales, Australia" is in the “Central Coast”.
Wikipedia says:
The Central Coast has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfa), with warm summers and mild winters. Rainfall is spread fairly evenly throughout the year, but is slightly more frequent during Autumn.
Koppen “Cfa”, if you agree with their description of your climate, can be found all over the world.
This Wikipedia article describes Cfa around 40% of the way down:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
“... Humid subtropical climates, ...
... frequent but short-lived summer thundershowers, ...
.... summer is often the wettest season”
Examples of Cfa climate:
. . . Rasht, Gilan, Iran (Cfa)
. . . São Paulo, Brazil (Cfa)
. . . USA states with several counties that are mostly Cfa:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Kansas, Maryland and parts of Texas.
Here is a detailed list of USA Koppen regions, by County:
http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien....
Where one county contains more than one Koppen zone, the % of land area for each zone is listed.
There are lots of "Cfa" counties.
Here are some maps showing “Koppen zones”:
world map:
http://people.eng.unimelb.edu....
(Look closely and you'll find a line of links for continental maps.)
(Scroll down for mathematical definitions of each term “C”, “f” and “a”.)
Oz map
http://www.google.com/imgres?i...
I couldn’t get to this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
North America:
Many Google Images of Koppen maps:
https://www.google.com/search?...
