>>2651145>Denver is 1000 miles more continentalFalse. if you draw a straight line East West, from to the Pacific, Denver is roughly a couple hundred miles further from the ocean than if you drew the same type of line for Big Bend.
The prevailing weather patterns go West East so for both locations, so the Gulf of Mexico is largely irrelevant, but the difference in distance between the Gulf and both locations is still only on the order of a few hundred miles.
West Texas is closer to the Gulf of Mexico so it gets more influence from the monsoon, which entirely explains the difference in average highs, not the other bullshit you made up.
>10 degrees latitude farther north (about 2.5 hrs more summer daylight)False. The difference is knlt 0.8 of an hour. Divide that roughly in half because only half of that extra 0.8 can be counted as a time of day when the temperature is still rising.
>Denver at 5200ft has a lower annual average high than McDonald Observatory at 6800 ft Use the Chisos Basin climate data. 5500 feet and 7f cooler average high in the warmest month.
Just admit you missed the point and obsessed chose to sperg out about how Texas has a hotter yearly mean whole ignoring the crix of the argument: by a miracle of meteorology, west Texas has milder summers than Arizona and warmer winters, making it a desirable year round climate.
