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Looking up the statistics : London has 587 mm of rain on average in a year over 186 days
I don't know if the metrics are the same, but it looks like it rains far more days in London than an American City, but accumulation is relatively low (comparable to San Francisco). Of course accumulation of rain is much lower in American desert cities
days City Milli*metres
167 Buffalo 1028
167 Rochester 870
164 Portland 1104
155 Cleveland 994
151 Pittsburgh 970
149 Seattle 958
139 Columbus 998
137 Cincinnati 1065
135 Detroit 850
135 Miami 1572
130 Hartford 1165
129 Indianapolis 1078
127 Milwaukee 883 126 Boston 1112
125 Providence 1198
124 Chicago 937
123 Louisville 1141
122 New York 1268
119 Nashville 1200
118 Philadelphia 1055
117 Birmingham 1364
117 Minneapolis 777
117 Orlando 1289
117 Virginia Beach 1182
116 Baltimore 1064
115 New Orleans 1592
114 Jacksonville 1331
114 Richmond 1107
114 Washington 1009
113 Atlanta 1263
113 St. Louis 1040
110 Charlotte 1057
108 Memphis 1363
105 Tampa 1176
104 Houston 1264
100 Raleigh 1169
96 Salt Lake City 409
91 Kansas City 992
88 Austin 870
87 Denver 396
84 Oklahoma City 928
83 San Antonio 820
81 Dallas 954
68 San Francisco 525
62 San Jose 402
60 Sacramento 470
42 San Diego 263
36 Los Angeles 326
30 Phoenix 208
30 Riverside 262
27 Las Vegas 106
The count of days includes those when precipitation amounts to 0.25 millimetres or more. The annual precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1981 to 2010 for the NOAA National Climatic Data Center.
Boston--they are probably counting our rain PLUS our snow PLUS our ice and dew and drizzle. Not to mention our hot, muggy summers when you have to stay inside with air conditioning.
If you want to see really terrible and harsh weather, come to the USA. You wouldn't like it. We'd gladly take some mild London weather, drizzle and all.
- The average number of days on which rain falls in London each year is less than in Paris, Santander (Spain) and Wellington (New Zealand). In fact Britain ranks a comfortable 46th in a chart of worldwide average rainfall, falling well behind such countries as New Zealand (29th) and even the USA (25th).
- London is drier than Rome, New York, Brisbane, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo
Wellington only gets 113 days>1mm compared to London's 110 days>1mm, but has 2.5 times the rainfall, and about 500 more hours sunshine than London.
Number of days with precipitation is always a difficult calculation unless you have a uniform standard
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Originally Posted by B87
London has nowhere near 186 days of precipiation. It gets about 145 days even if you include dew as precipitation. If you count days when rain actually falls from the sky, it's only around 110.
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Originally Posted by Razza94
0:25mm is ridiculously low threshold, 0.25mm can be dew or frost that's formed on the sensor, and that's often the case. Yet it'll be counted as a "rain day".
0.25mm is the NOAA standard for US cities. I wasn't sure what the 186 day standard for London was based on.
In either case the amount of precipitation is rather low compared to most USA cities other than Southern California or the Desert cities. I assume it is spread out over more days, but I can't find a uniform measure.
Of course London is 51.5° N, while Everett, Washington – northernmost city of more than 100,000 residents in the 48 contiguous states 48.0° N. Perhaps because the nights are longer in winter, it has a reputation as being gloomy.
Looking up the statistics : London has 587 mm of rain on average in a year over 186 days
I don't know if the metrics are the same, but it looks like it rains far more days in London than an American City, but accumulation is relatively low (comparable to San Francisco). Of course accumulation of rain is much lower in American desert cities
The count of days includes those when precipitation amounts to 0.25 millimetres or more. The annual precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1981 to 2010 for the NOAA National Climatic Data Center.
My point is London rarely gets extreme winter weather, like say Chicago or Toronto in Canada when the actual lakes and rivers start to freeze over or where you have ice storms.
We also don't get severe eathquakes, hurricanes or tornados.
The most you can say about the British weather is it involves mild winters and cool summers with some rain, but it's not even the rainest city, indeed many cities world wide get more rainfall.
The average number of days on which rain falls in London each year is less than in Paris, Santander (Spain) and Wellington (New Zealand).
London is drier than Rome, New York, Brisbane, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo.
The average minimum daily temperature in London is higher than that in Seattle, Dublin and Toronto.
Personally the British weather suits me fine, as I don't like extreme cold or extreme heat, it's at best just comfortable a lot of the time, and the country is a green and pleasant land precisely because of the weather.
London currently has a lower cost of living than NYC, whilst Central Paris is not cheap, and in terms of safety their were 102 Homicides in London last year, of which a third were due to domestic violence. Not bad for a city of nearly 9 million.
Chicago a city of nearly 3 million had 751 homicides in 2016, more than the entire United Kingdom, a country of nearly 65 million people. The US Police shoot more people dead every year than are murdered in the entire UK.
There were 571 Homicides in England and Wales (of which 102 were in London) last year, 57 in Scotland, and 21 in Northern Ireland, making a total of 649 and the general trend is downward.
Last edited by Brave New World; 08-06-2017 at 04:47 AM..
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