Hi list, searching for some climate data I came across Meteoblue's simulated climate diagrams, and I'm wondering how accurate and how useful they are - since they are simulated, they don't exactly need a weather station around - so we could find climate information for locations far from the next settlement. As everyone knows his/her home climate best, I had a look at Göppingen: https://meteoblue.com/en/weather/… And I must say, it's pretty good - mean temperature is easy, of course, though both "hot Days" and "cold nights" only depict "normal extremes", but not the freak occurrences - for Göppingen, cold nights are listed as -8C, while we had -14°C this year (which had an unusual cold January) and something around -20°C as all time low - with severe damage to even local flora. Likewise, our "new" summers tend to reach 36°C rather than the 31°C predicted. Still - if all the locations show about this deviation they'd be extremely helpful, e.g. i'd expect species from the Bankberg (https://meteoblue.com/en/weather/…) may do well in my climate. Would be nice if some members could evaluate the data for their home locations to get a clear picture of this. -- Martin ---------------------------------------------- Southern Germany Likely zone 7a _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/