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Wow! Thanks for the correction. That's an interesting and crazy stat. Sounds like there's little snow cover for the lower elevations there. Impressive in my eyes for that latitude. Something I didn't know.
I wonder what Mt Marcy and Algonquin summits in NY (4200') average.
How is it impressive when some places have 9c highs?
First, I think some British posters lump all northern US climates as one. Philadelphia is much milder than interior New England or Upstate NY or even Chicago. While the difference between Philadelphia and most of the UK is small (not Portsmouth!) it is reasonable from mine and Tom's perspective to consider Philadelphia colder. Unlike dunno what to put here and Mac15, I don't care much about snow retention. I do care about cold mornings. Walking to work in chilly mornings or coming from a night out in very cold weather is annoying. And Philadelphia is more likely to get those (esp. with the extra variability but the lows alone are colder) and probably has a few more ice days thrown in. It's terrible for snow retention of any amount of time, but I don't measure a winter that way. And the lows put a damper on the growing season, a big deal to me.
Exactly. Portsmouth winter is a big step up from Philly because of those morning lows. I hate more than anything a windy morning when the temp is around mid 20's (our avg Jan low) and I'm walking to work in a northerly direction and that north wind is stinging me in the face. Snow is not really an issue here except for when we get those coastal snow bombs. We average 15% of winter days with a snow cover, a total of 13.8 days between Dec 1st and March 1. Snowiest month is Feb, which has the higher daytime temps and stronger sun so snow melts pretty quickly here.
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A British resident who minds cold temperatures would notice the extra cold mornings in Philadelphia easily.
Yes they most certainly do notice it cause I know some personally. The few I know don't like winter here at all. They consider it too cold.
Yes a few spots along the south coast are sunnier, but Portsmouth is probably the sunniest city. Chichester doesn't have a weather station, so could be sunnier, but only fractionally as Bognor is only a little sunnier than Portsmouth...
The Met Office states that the sunniest parts of the UK are the coastal resorts of Hampshire, Sussex & the Isle of Wight. The actual sunniest place changes from year to year, but based on averages Shanklin on the Isle of Wight appears to be the sunniest with 1923.0 hrs, followed by Bognor Regis 1920.8 hrs, Southsea 1919.1 hrs & Eastbourne 1887.9 hrs.
I spent a day in Portsmouth in January of 1993 visiting HMS Victory and the Naval Museum. It was sunny that day cause I have a picture of HMS Victory. I loved that day. Great city.
Looks to me like the majority has between 5 and 20. Places with less than 5 are pretty limited geographically.
Only when you look at the UK as a whole. England alone has mostly 0-10 days, apart from the far north where hardly anyone lives, and hilly areas in the Midlands.
This part of Somerset gets less than 5. Some years we don't get any. The only real deep snow I've seen in the UK was in Aviemore and the Cairn gorms. The snow up on in the ski lodge was about 20 feet deep, it was great skiing.
Yep here in Portsmouth snow is quite rare, we don't get snow every winter & even if it does snow it doesn't lay on the ground for long, if at all. The heavy snow we saw in January 2010 was the worst snow here since 1982 & it stayed on the ground for a week, normally snow starts to melt as soon as it stops snowing...
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