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Um yes we would! Stornoway is nearly always cloudy the place is awful I'd love you to spend two whole years in Shetland and two whole years in Wembley, London then you'd see how cold, damp, windy and dull Stornoway is.
Ridiculous comment, sorry
London averages around 1,550 hrs of Sun.
London isn't that much sunnier than Stornoway.
I choose Stornoway because it's warmer than Lulea and you say I should spend 2 years in Stornoway, to see how much colder than London it is. What sort of logic is that?
I choose Stornoway because it's warmer than Lulea and you say I should spend 2 years in Stornoway, to see how much colder than London it is. What sort of logic is that?
Stornoway average sun 1981-2010 is about 1220 hrs, Heathrow about 1630. That means Heathrow is almost 34% sunnier than Stornoway. In my view ratios are more important than absolute differences - the 410 hours difference means much less at the 3000+ level, as an example to make the point. It should also be noted that it is common to express deviations from monthly sun normals as percentages rather than differences, for the same reason.
In addition Stornoway has 1250mm rainfall per year with a dreadful 205 days with 1mm or more. So I think the difference between the two would be pretty drastic.
Stornoway average sun 1981-2010 is about 1220 hrs, Heathrow about 1630. That means Heathrow is almost 34% sunnier than Stornoway. In my view ratios are more important than absolute differences - the 410 hours difference means much less at the 3000+ level, as an example to make the point. It should also be noted that it is common to express deviations from monthly sun normals as percentages rather than differences, for the same reason.
In addition Stornoway has 1250mm rainfall per year with a dreadful 205 days with 1mm or more. So I think the difference between the two would be pretty drastic.
It doesn't seem as though Lulea is that much sunnier than Stornoway ,200-300 hours perhaps? I usually take the sunnier climate, but find Lulea much too cold.
London is obviously warmer and drier than Stornoway, but using the 1550 hour total, would put it in roughly the same league for sunshine, as Stornoway - meaning that a bad London year could match a good Stornoway year.
Stornoway average sun 1981-2010 is about 1220 hrs, Heathrow about 1630. That means Heathrow is almost 34% sunnier than Stornoway. In my view ratios are more important than absolute differences - the 410 hours difference means much less at the 3000+ level, as an example to make the point.
What do you mean by the 3000+ level?
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In addition Stornoway has 1250mm rainfall per year with a dreadful 205 days with 1mm or more. So I think the difference between the two would be pretty drastic.
1250mm sounds about normal to me, good to keep plant life healthy. I average 1174mm of rain, 101 days with 1 mm or more.
I choose Stornoway because it's warmer than Lulea and you say I should spend 2 years in Stornoway, to see how much colder than London it is. What sort of logic is that?
London is alot sunnier than Storonoway.
London averages around 1653.3 hours of sunshine per year the data is from Kew gardens.
Stornoway averages around 1223.8 hours of sunshine per year with a stupidly high amount of precipitation days 205.0 to be exact.
London averages around 1653.3 hours of sunshine per year the data is from Kew gardens.
Stornoway averages around 1223.8 hours of sunshine per year with a stupidly high amount of precipitation days 205.0 to be exact.
Stornoway should be called stormoway.
Lulea is 10 times better...
Well.... for you it's 10x better and I don't have an issue with that (unlike yourself).
Lulea has 6 months with average temperatures below freezing, which is fine for you, but not me. I've lived in places with cold winters and would never want to live in another such place. It doesn't look a lot sunnier than Stornoway either.
I see London and Stornoway as roughly in the same group. A good year in Stornoway could match a bad year in London. If the two can cross over at times, that puts them in the same rough grouping.
A good year in Stornoway could match a bad year in London. If the two can cross over at times, that puts them in the same rough grouping.
The summer temperatures in London would NEVER be close to Stornoway's even if you compared a bad London summer to a good Stornoway summer.
London might avg. only 21°C for a high in July or August in a cool summer (vs. 24/23°C averages for those months) and stornoway a good July/August max might be 18°C, as good as it gets.
And there's a big difference between an 18°C vs 21°C avg high in a month for all I am concerned.
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