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Interesting concept. It would be weird, but have some perks. Snowfall would be more likely during the day during the fall, winter, and spring...summer days would be comfortable and I'd have an excuse to blast the A/C all night while I'm asleep.
It's not unusual here in winter for the 'daytime' high to actually happen during the night - it happened nine times in a row over last Christmas/New Year - but that was nothing to do with the sun; it generally happens on full overcast days when the weather is in full-Atlantic mode just because of fronts or shifting air currents.
Higher-latitude and more maritime places like the Shetlands have this in winter even more than we do - this table below shows how random the time of the daily high can be and how it's largely influenced by wind speed:
How does that happen, having so many fronts that you can have daytime maximums at night, repeated for more than 3 days in a row?
When you get a wind direction change and a swing in temperatures in the UK, is there warm fronts behind the cold fronts, or is it merely cold fronts that temporarily drop your temperatures? Or is the UK really much colder than that and you experience multiple short lived warm fronts?
My prefered inverted range that I would like to try would be not very large. Something like 22-26 C (72-79 F) in the day and 25-29 C (77-84 F) at night.
I like ilovemycomputers thoughts; comfy summer afternoons and just use A/C to sleep.
How does that happen, having so many fronts that you can have daytime maximums at night, repeated for more than 3 days in a row?
When you get a wind direction change and a swing in temperatures in the UK, is there warm fronts behind the cold fronts, or is it merely cold fronts that temporarily drop your temperatures? Or is the UK really much colder than that and you experience multiple short lived warm fronts?
I can't give you a particularly detailed reply because I don't fully know, but in the Scatsta graph above (on a windswept Scottish island) it seems to be more about simple movement of air currents caused by wind speed (I should have copied the wind direction info too, but didn't), which overrides the weak influence of the sun. When the weather's in Atlantic mode in midwinter we might get a front every couple of days, but there has to be more to it than that. Some of our all-time high temperature date records around the winter solstice were recorded after dark, so lack of weak, low-angle sun seems to have no impact on how mild it can get.
In December here in London it's normal to have up to half the days with the high temperature after dark (though admittedly, it's dark for twice as long as it is light), and it's almost always when the weather is unsettled. If you look at the data in the graphs from December 2012 from the 22nd onwards you might be able to make more sense of how it works.
I can't give you a particularly detailed reply because I don't fully know, but in the Scatsta graph above (on a windswept Scottish island) it seems to be more about simple movement of air currents caused by wind speed (I should have copied the wind direction info too, but didn't), which overrides the weak influence of the sun. When the weather's in Atlantic mode in midwinter we might get a front every couple of days, but there has to be more to it than that. Some of our all-time high temperature date records around the winter solstice were recorded after dark, so lack of weak, low-angle sun seems to have no impact on how mild it can get.
In December here in London it's normal to have up to half the days with the high temperature after dark (though admittedly, it's dark for twice as long as it is light), and it's almost always when the weather is unsettled. If you look at the data in the graphs from December 2012 from the 22nd onwards you might be able to make more sense of how it works.
I can "almost" happen in summer too, when, quite often, the daily max is only reached very late in the day, often after 5pm, especially after cool-ish mornings with a strong high pressure system in place.
If we were awake in the nights (and asleep during the day) then yes.
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