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Parts of Southern England have marginally acceptable, but still not warm enough, summers (highs in the mid 70s with nightly lows in the upper 50s). Inland parts of BC have warmer summer daytime highs but cooler lows with substantially more sunshine.
Both are absolutely dismally miserable in winter.
The dealbreaker would be 1) how many funderstorms the acceptable parts the U.K. get in summer 2) Number of days per year with a daily mean (not average high) above 60F in both places 3) It's obvious that BC gets far more summer sun and marginally less winter sun but which one gets better sunshine hours during the shoulder seasons?
Parts of Southern England have marginally acceptable, but still not warm enough, summers (highs in the mid 70s with nightly lows in the upper 50s). Inland parts of BC have warmer summer daytime highs but cooler lows with substantially more sunshine.
Both are absolutely dismally miserable in winter.
The dealbreaker would be 1) how many funderstorms the acceptable parts the U.K. get in summer 2) Number of days per year with a daily mean (not average high) above 60F in both places 3) It's obvious that BC gets far more summer sun and marginally less winter sun but which one gets better sunshine hours during the shoulder seasons?
Many places in southern interior BC in summer have lows that are just as warm as southern England. Any minor difference is insignificant and completely overshadowed by BC having much warmer summer maximums.
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Dean - pointless in most of the UK maybe ,but i have spent many a winter time down in south Devon /Dorset and have sat outside ,mild enough to enjoy with a coffee or a beer in 12c sunshine (the odd days obviously) celebrating the fact that in parts of Canada BC and Europe it's probably -5 or so .
Oliver ,BC has a decent climate as does a number of towns in that vicinity - nice summers at the expense of a few short winter months -nice sunshine hours . Different altogether to Vancouver which imo has a worse climate than your town !
Don't count on it being 12c as a regular in most of the British Isles during winter, and even it is, it will probably be accompanied by Azores sourced, gales and rain.
Vancouver has a good climate, but Victoria and the towns on the southern (more populated) part of Vancouver island have a better climate than us to the south in parts of Puget Sound (WA). Victoria and its surrounded cities have the best weather in canada with VERY FEW days of snow each winter. The western part of Vancouver island shields Victoria from the storms and provides for warm weather in summer but not too hot as they are right by the water. Vancouver gets much more snow than Victoria, but thats not saying a lot. Compared to Canada, pretty much all of BC esp west of Kelowna or Kamaloops is a banana belt in comparison. If you look at different weather stats for Canada, you will see what a difference B.C. is.
From Oct 2014-Oct 2015 Vancouver did not recieve any snowfall. That was not the case this year as the whole NW on both sides of the border got hit with many snow days. https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...ies-winter.php https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...ure-cities.php
There are some great climates in BC. Abbotsford, which is 40 miles from Vancouver, has warmer summers than anywhere in the UK. Winter is pretty mild too, but very wet. I could certainly live with that tbh.
Other places mentioned like Kamloops, Osoyoos, Penticton and Lytton are very good imo.
There are very few positives for the UK imo, but winter here is generally much drier and milder, but NOBODY here says that winter is lovely anyway so that doesn't really matter to me. A Kamloops summer for example would have English people exclaiming how fantastic it is for months on end.
Most on here seem to be comparing favourable areas of BC with the whole of the UK which is a bit off limits . I mean most of the UK is pure sh1te away from the far south coast and south east - we know that already -but then so is much of BC .
Vancouver is tons worse than London . The jury would even be out for Seattle because of the terriblr rain totals .
Kamloops summers look ace - but i can't help thinking if Kamloops was in the UK, everyone would rubbish it for being too cold ,and likewise Vancouvers rubbish climate would get a right slating if it was UK - seems though it gets away with it in Canada - oh well.
BC is generally too wet on that western side - it is OK if it's summer wetness ,and there are one or two drier areas granted in PNW which i recall are over on the USA side - but constant rain/drizzle in the winter at those temperatures for 5 winter months would be hellish .
Inner B.C looks good ,the cold is worth putting up with and i think that's where the best climates are in BC - i think most would take the interior climate over coastal BC .
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