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Not to nitpick too much, but BC is closer to 4 times the size of the UK . UK is 242,495 square km, BC is 944,735 square km.
I chose B.C. The Okanagan Valley just doesn't exist in the UK.
As for Vancouver versus London climate wise, Vancouver hands down. Dryer and longer summer usually. Besides, on a beautiful warm day, I'd rather be sitting on a beach with ocean scented breezes and mountain views, than by the Thames.
Not to nitpick too much, but BC is closer to 4 times the size of the UK . UK is 242,495 square km, BC is 944,735 square km.
I chose B.C. The Okanagan Valley just doesn't exist in the UK.
As for Vancouver versus London climate wise, Vancouver hands down. Dryer and longer summer usually. Besides, on a beautiful warm day, I'd rather be sitting on a beach with ocean scented breezes and mountain views, than by the Thames.
except London gets a lot more warm days - sorry to nit pick
Not to nitpick too much, but BC is closer to 4 times the size of the UK . UK is 242,495 square km, BC is 944,735 square km.
I chose B.C. The Okanagan Valley just doesn't exist in the UK.
As for Vancouver versus London climate wise, Vancouver hands down. Dryer and longer summer usually. Besides, on a beautiful warm day, I'd rather be sitting on a beach with ocean scented breezes and mountain views, than by the Thames.
I also included Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey as part of the definition of the British Isles which includes more than just the UK. I'm still undecided... some of the South coast English climates like Portsmouth as well as Jersey and Guernsey look really good.
PNW rain is fairly light if you compare to the rain hours except maybe on mountain slopes. . The amount of time it's raining in the PNW is just high. We've had rain hour comparisons but it's hard to do without a consistent measurement method [ for American PNW cities, rain from 3:59 to 4:01 gets counted as two hours as it's in two clocks hours]. Vancouver is wetter than London but sunnier especially in summer, calling it tons worse than London is silly.
That's interesting. I didn't know about it. How do they measure rain hours in Europe or the east coast?
Vancouver better than Portsmouth ? you mean with it's colder days ,colder nights and tons more rain and drizzle ?
takes all sorts i guess
Vancouver has stable, sunny summers, and it is overall sunnier than SE England by 300 hours. That amount of sunshine can always compensate for its "tons more rain and drizzle". And I never said that I dislike rain and drizzle?
Most of UK is better than most of BC, but Victoria beats everything in the UK and there's more variety, and the Okanagan/Kamloops areas are just unreplicable in the UK, even though I prefer Victoria.
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