I found it is rather accurate, but record hot days can be some 5 degrees higher than stated and record cold night can be some 2 degrees lower than stated. That's an interesting website. Thanks. Gianluca Corazza, Italy, Z9b. 2017-02-04 10:10 GMT+01:00 Garak <garak@code-garak.de>: > 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/… > %c3%b6ppingen_germany_2919054 > > 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/… > bankberg_south-africa_1021234) 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/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/