Talk:Continental Mediterranean climate

refs?

I find it a bit concerning that there is not a single reference for this article. Is it confirmed that meteorology manuals identify a "continental mediterranean climate" as such? I do know it is not exactly a continental nor a mediterranean, but mixed. However, it would be good to have references making sure that this is the widespread wording to refer to this kind of climates or any other kind of reference. Mountolive _{please, behave} 19:33, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I checked for sources when it was prodded - there are a lot of sources out there using this term. Fences and windows (talk) 01:35, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Continental Mediterranean climate?

Where did you found "Continental Mediterranean climate"?. I doubt there's any truly Mediterranan region with an average temperature of January belove -3°C (that is the definition of Köppen's D class): the only cases could be the Caspian region and some mountainous areas, such as Sierra Nevada in southern Spain and Mount Teide on Tenerife Island, considered by Rivas Martínez as Mediterranean. In any case, Madrid and San Bernardino must not be put into Köppen's D class! For reference, this is the distribution of Dsa, Dsb, Dsc and Dsd. As you can see, no Mediterranean region is shown there.--Carnby (talk) 17:00, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the statement above, this article is strange and possible a candidate for deletion. Madrid is not at all a D-climate! Credible sources, and a clearer definition of the parameters for this kind of climate is needed. I can imagine there are some higland areas with this climate, but sources, sources. This article must be improved or deleted. Orcaborealis (talk) 09:32, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree as well. I'm not sure the article needs deletion, but it is not about a Ds zone... and calling it a "mediterranean" continental seems a bit of a boost. The article itself is about the climate of higher elevations within, or adjacent to, med climate zones. This is all well, but Madrid and San Bernardino do not fit the D mould. I think both are marginal Cs or even BS climates, although I haven't checked. Koppenlady (talk) 23:07, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I've made changes to remove references to the Ds climate. This is now about a variation of the Mediterranean climate as I think it was originally intended. It could be merged? Koppenlady (talk) 19:40, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

The more I look at this article, the more I agree with this. I think this should be merged with the Mediterranean climate article. It should be a sub-heading under the Mediterranean climate, much as Subpolar oceanic climate is a sub-heading under oceanic climate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.246.116.53 (talk) 02:05, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal

A couple of people have proposed merging these two pages into one Mediterranean Climate page with the Continental mediterranean climate forming a section of the Mediterranean page. What do you think? Personally, I'm becoming increasingly convinced this should be done.(G. Capo (talk) 23:43, 5 January 2010 (UTC)) Note: This comment was left on the wrong page (Wikipedia:THIS PAGE) so I have corrected the link on the main page, and placed the comment here -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 23:46, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, it'll fit better as part of the wider topic. Fences&Windows 01:06, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Agree! Koppenlady (talk) 00:14, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Dont Agree Different articles, climate is different, a lot cooler. House1090 (talk) 05:43, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Agree. Orcaborealis (talk) 10:21, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Dont Agree. This is a unique and very rare climate type, which does not properly fit at all into the "typical" mediterranean climate, not only due to its much colder winters, but also due to its different precipitation pattern, especially concerning the winter. Saguamundi (talk)

Playing devil’s advocate here, a subpolar oceanic climate features a noticeably cooler climate, particularly during its summers than an oceanic climate. Should we have a separate page for a subpolar oceanic climate? That said, your point about the different precip. patterns is a good one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by G. Capo (talk • contribs) 19:59, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

I looked at the merged version of this and the Mediterranean climate articles yeasterday and I don't think it's vandalism at all. Since by my count the "vote" is 4-2 (including myself). I move to merge the two articles. G. Capo (talk) 23:10, 2 February 2010 (UTC)