By month what is the most typical weather conditions in your area? (ice, frost)
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I assume 27C is your definition of a heatwave? Every year. Southeastern Finland, Southeasten Sweden and the Stockholm area and the Oslofjord area are quite prone to heat, or in this areas you'll probably find the yearly highest temperatures and averages. The Norwegian and Swedish stats are pretty crappy, and usually still from 1961-1990, and we use the 25C mark, so it's difficult to give exact information.
And it's a big area, and summers are very different from year to year. This summer was crappy, not a single location recorded 30C, the summers of 2010 and 2011 were very warm. But periods with at least 5 days in a row with over 25C occur almost every summer. 14 days in a row once every 10 years.
The summers (Jun-Aug) of 2007 and 2009 were the most normal, and the first one had 7 days with >27C, the latter 8. This year: one day.
Sorry, I really can't give a good answer to your question. But yes, the period of the year when these temperature even are possible, is of course much longer in the UK.
I sincerely doubt that anywhere in Scandinavia is warmer than London in the summer.
London really is quite warm in the summer, no doubt about it.
I never understood the obsession for foreigners to talk about the UK's climate in terms of London's climate. 95% of the UK is north of London the city is definitely an outlier and not the norm. York is more typical of the UK, since it's located roughly halfway between Dover and Inverness
That grates me, really grates me.
Its always americans that do it too. Like 'London is really mild in the winter' , um yes I live 350 miles North-West of London.
In 30 year periods, the averages certainly tell the truth about the climate. The highest ever max in Scandinavia was 38.0C in MÃ¥lilla, Sweden in 1947. The highest ever monthly mean was 23.0C in Puumala, Finland in 2010. Those figures tell nothing about an average summer.
In Helsinki, on average 18 days between June and August exceed 25.1C (so 24.5C days don't count). That's not many, but I think they are on par with most locations in the UK. On a normal day in mid May the high temp is 15C, in mid June 19C, in mid July 21C, in mid August 20C. We may all agree upon, that in the UK, the daily maxes are pretty much the same.
I don't want to start another "my climate is better than yours" -quarrel, I'm just saying that compared to Scandinavia, UK summers won't beat them, certainly not if we count the sunshine hours. It was dean york who mentioned "warmer and longer summers", and "one month of summer".
e: And how petty this is comparing to the guys before who cried about a bad summer in Australia, when they got only 2700 sun hours a year and high temps of 30C, when then next city got 3000 and 35C....
South of England is warmer than Scandinavia.
I would go as far to say that Scotland and Northern Ireland are just a tad cooler.
To someone living there, the differences between English climates may be large, but someone from a different climate type as myself the differences seem minor. I live 160 miles away from NYC, and the climate differences are at least as large probably larger than changes in England over a similar distance. Lows are about 10°F colder.
Its always americans that do it too. Like 'London is really mild in the winter' , um yes I live 350 miles North-West of London.
I hate when people say this, they need to stay the whole winter not just a couple of weeks. Yes its really true how people judge the whole country on London's climate.
Climate data for Climate Malmo - Scania and Birmingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia shows a comparison between the two regions. Very similar but I think southern England is warmer overall. 25 + temps are more likely and high temps last longer from april to late september.
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