Dockrillia linguiforme

[ArronOB]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Thank you. Your summers aren't as warm as I had thought:
December 2017 Capital City Observations Sydney - Observatory Hill

I guess I won't try it outside here. 109 F = 43C
Current Forecast: Phoenix Arizona

But this should do really well outside all year for orchidophiles in southern California.

Yep. The variations in US weather seems amazing to me. I can’t imagine living in a place that has snow in winter AND be stifling hot in summer. Then throw in tornadoes, cyclones, floods, drought, deep cold snaps and blizzards - it’s amazing the adversity that Americans so robustly put up with.

It’s this difference in variation that makes it difficult to map US climate zones against Australian, and most other countries too. I just concentrate on the low values, as I understand that’s how they were originally intended to be used, but it’s likely that an equivalent climate zone in Australia would have a very much cooler climate in summer. It might have a cooler winter too, on average, it’s just that there won’t be the extremes of cold.

Cheers
Arron