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When I hear about Leeds in England, I associate it with cricket legends. So how often do you get sunny and dry weather perfect for a gentleman's game of cricket .
To give you some idea, Headingley (Leeds cricket ground) holds the record for hosting the coldest day of Test cricket history back in late May 2007: a maximum of 7.5C (presumably an unofficial reading though) with overcast skies, northerly winds and rain showers.
When I hear about Leeds in England, I associate it with cricket legends. So how often do you get sunny and dry weather perfect for a gentleman's game of cricket .
Plenty of dry weather, not so much sunny weather!
13 Test matches have been washed out at Headingley. One was washed out this year. Some one-day international matches have been washed out recently, including this year. I'm surprised to hear you associate Leeds with cricket - most people don't associate it with anything, and if they do, it's usually soccer (Leeds United, the Damned United etc).
The nearby North Sea has quite an important influence of my city Bremerhaven.
During the summer, often Northwestern sea breezes set in the early afternoon and drop temperatures from lets say low 30s (C) into the low mid 20s (C) range. This happens especially in June and up to Mid July when the water temperatures are still quite cool, less so in August.
In spring there is also a risk that a sunny warm day can turn into a foggy cold day, when a sea breeze arrives.
On the other hand during winter it moderates our winter temperatures significantly and while locations further inland see snowfalls, we get the rain.
During cold winters (i personally experienced it especially in December 2010, which was 6 K colder than average) we can even get a kind of Lake Effect snow from the North Sea, (when a upper through with sufficient cold air is around), during this month we often got quite heavy snowshoers (by our standards) with falls bringing 5-8 cm (2-3 inches) of snow in just one hour.
Another microclimate might be the few depressions we have on the north eastern suburbs, on clear mornings they often record temperatures up to 5°C (9°F) lower than our official weather station (which is only about hundred metres away from the shore) though this is probably the case in most coastal areas.
13 Test matches have been washed out at Headingley. One was washed out this year. Some one-day international matches have been washed out recently, including this year. I'm surprised to hear you associate Leeds with cricket - most people don't associate it with anything, and if they do, it's usually soccer (Leeds United, the Damned United etc).
I used to frequently follow cricket when I lived in India. Sachin Tendulkar was the first foreign born player to be accepted into Yorkshire, a world famous famous cricket club with headquarters in Leeds. That's why Leeds is so memorable for cricket fans from India.
Here in Miami-Dade we have quite a few micro climates. The area around miami beach is by far the driest averaging only 45-50in of rain but it is also paradoxically the area that experiences the most extreme rainfall events. it is also the mildest region in the county as summer highs rarely exceed 90f and winter cold snaps hardly ever cause temps to fall below 4c(39f) it is the only truly freeze-free area that is inhabited on the florida peninsula.
The area from the Miami International airport and to it's east has the hottest mean annual temp due the fact that the urban heat island is at it's strongest there. As a result heat waves are often worse here than in other parts of the county Although it hasn't recorded a freeze since 1989, the area can still experience ground frost during extreme cold snaps, like it did most recently in 2010. This area is also prone to extreme rainfall events although not as often as on the beach, it averages 54-62in of rain annually.
The northern microclimate is the rainiest of them all, averaging around 65in of rain. it is also prone to extreme rain events especially in the NorthEast corner. temperature wise it is cooler than the airport and more continental than the beach. due to it's larger diurnal range and the urban heat island not being as strong as around the airport it is slightly more vulnerable to winter cold snaps than KMIA. during the 2010 cold snaps this area saw heavy ground frost but didn't fall to freezing.
The Southwestern Microclimate is the most continental of all the microclimates. it's has a huge diurnal range by south florida standards and as a result it is the most vulnerable to both cold snaps and heat waves.It's average annual temp is considerably lower than the other 3 microclimates because UHI is non existent and in some parts large scale agriculture is done which drops the temp a bit. but despite those factors it still has the hottest average summer high at 91f. In the south western microclimate ground frost is an annual occurrence with freezing temps occurring once every few years. as far as rainfall goes it averages around 60in, it is also the micro climate least likely to be hit by Extreme Rainfall.
The Kelowna, BC, airport is in a frost hollow. It's in a low lying piece of land with hardly any wind, so it gets about 2 degrees C colder at night than other places in the Okanagan valley bottom. By contrast, benches 500 feet above the valley bottom are about a degree warmer at night than the non-frost hollow valley bottom spots. These bench micro-climates are ideal for orchards and vineyards.
Being located in a sheltered bay behind an archipelago, with minimal ranges in elevation and differences in geography, Turku offers very little in terms of microclimates.
Even when watching the larger region, the temps has small swings, highs/lows maybe up to 1C, and three month mean temps 0.1C to 0.5C.
Helsinki offers much more variation in this sense.
Nothing drastic here, coastal suburbs tend to be 2-3C cooler than average than central Perth in the summer due to an earlier arrival of the seabreeze and rainfall is about a third higher in the Perth hills when compared to the coastal plain.
Actually there's significant differences throughout Perth, but it's nothing compared to California. The coast is a bit cooler, Fremantle's January high is 27C (keep in mind these are long term averages, recently it's been a lot hotter), the city is 30C while Gosnells is 33C. Winter in Fremantle averages a low of 10C, 9C in the CBD, 7C in Bickley and as low as 6C in the extremities of the metropolitan statistical division. The famous 'Fremantle doctor' arrives during summer afternoon and can shave temps drastically.
Precipitation varies from as low as 650mm to about 1100mm at Bickley or Kalamunda.
Los Angeles and San Diego have striking micro-climates. For instance, the July max is about 21C at Santa Monica, 28C downtown, 32C in Pasadena, and 36C in San Bernardino or even Canoga Park. Rainfall varies from 300mm at Long Beach to nearly 1000mm at Mt Wilson. The east coast, comparatively, doesn't really vary much within a small area.
The east coast, comparatively, doesn't really vary much within a small area.
Oh, it does vary quite a bit near NYC in the winter. Check out the temperatures in JFK airport and compare them to those in Brewster NY. They are only 64 miles apart. However, temperatures may vary by more than 10 F at night.
Once you start heading north of NYC up the Hudson valley during the winter, temperatures decrease by 1F every 5 miles. By the time you reach Albany, its 25 F colder than NYC and feels brutally cold in the winter. Head even further north into the Adirondacks, and temperatures may be as much as 60 F colder than NYC in the winter and have arctic like whiteout conditions with several feet of snowfall and temperatures well into the negatives (usually around -30 F).
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Being located in the north slope of Guadarrama mountain range, my hometown offers very much in terms of microclimates:
- Nightime temperature inversion at clear nights in winter does not work well because mountain breeze is quite common.
- Thunderstorms here are more frequent than in surroundings vast, elevated plateau "meseta". In spite of this, we don't experience very much of it, maybe about 12 or 15 thunderstorms per year.
- Most of thunderstorms typically begin to form between 11 AM and 1 PM, then they usually moves to the north.
- Cloud cover is much more frequent here than in southern slope of Guadarrama mountain range because mountains hold up the clouds, especially when northwest wind bringing them from Atlantic ocean.
- Radiation fogs are very rare, except in December and January, whereas advection fogs are very common in autumn, winter and early spring.
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