How does Sydney have a temperate climate?
There are only 6 major climatic zones in the world when they’re defined the Wikipedia way so it stands to reason that there can be huge variations in maximum and minimum temperatures and total rainfall within each zone. The zones are: Polar – very cold and dry all year Temperate – cold winters and mild summers Arid – dry, hot all year Tropical – hot and wet all year Mediterranean – mild winters, dry hot summers Mountains (tundra) very cold all year Neither Sydney nor London fit into any of the other zones, so they get lumped into ‘temperate’. Like the rest of Wikipedia – only to be believed if well supported by other evidence. The following has a far more logical and useful system of climate classification.
