UK or Deustchland (population, airport, country, place)

[westphal]

Originally Posted by B87

The UK is drier and sunnier than Germany.

Sorry, but that's just not true. The average amount of rainfall in Germany is about 750 liter and the sun shines for about 1,600 hours.

Here are the dates from Wiki for the UK:

England: 854.8 liter and 1,492.7 hours
Scotland: 1,520.1 liter and 1,160.4 hours
Wales: 1,433.5 liter and 1,359.3 hours
Northern Ireland: 1,111.6 liter and 1,219.7 hours

According to Wiki: "Cornwall is one of the sunniest areas in the UK with over 1,541 hours of sunshine per year."
That is significant lower than most places in Germany.

[Neuling]

The warmest temp so far measured in Britain was 38.5° in a town in Kent, i.e. in the very SE of the country.

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Originally Posted by westphal

Sorry, but that's just not true. The average amount of rainfall in Germany is about 750 liter and the sun shines for about 1,600 hours.

Here are the dates from Wiki for the UK:

England: 854.8 liter and 1,492.7 hours
Scotland: 1,520.1 liter and 1,160.4 hours
Wales: 1,433.5 liter and 1,359.3 hours
Northern Ireland: 1,111.6 liter and 1,219.7 hours

According to Wiki: "Cornwall is one of the sunniest areas in the UK with over 1,541 hours of sunshine per year."
That is significant lower than most places in Germany.

Look, you and others are clearly not interested in climatology or anything relating to weather as a hobby, so you are embarrassing yourself by talking about a topic you have little knowledge about.

Country-wide figures are meaningless, as they are skewed by areas where hardly anyone lives. Most people in the UK live in England, in the south and east, where rainfall is much lower. It doesn't matter if some random rural area in England has 1,000mm of rain when nobody lives there to experience it. Waste of time.

The sunniest place in the UK has over 1,900 hours of sun on average per year, that is sunnier than anywhere in Germany. The south coast has over 1,800 in general. London has over 1,600. Like I said, my own city has the same yearly sunshine hours as Hamburg, and higher than cities such as Cologne, Dusseldorf and Bremen. So drop this nonsense please.

[B87]

Originally Posted by westphal

Sorry, but that's just not true. The average amount of rainfall in Germany is about 750 liter and the sun shines for about 1,600 hours.

Here are the dates from Wiki for the UK:

England: 854.8 liter and 1,492.7 hours
Scotland: 1,520.1 liter and 1,160.4 hours
Wales: 1,433.5 liter and 1,359.3 hours
Northern Ireland: 1,111.6 liter and 1,219.7 hours

According to Wiki: "Cornwall is one of the sunniest areas in the UK with over 1,541 hours of sunshine per year."
That is significant lower than most places in Germany.

Cornwall is not the sunniest part of the UK. The central south coast is; Portsmouth gets 1920 hours, Bognor gets 1928 and Shanklin 1923. That's about 100 hours more than the sunniest place in Germany (Freiburg).

[KuuKulgur]

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

Average ainfall for Leeds, nearly 200 miles north of London, is 603mm. That is noticeably drier than any city in Western Germany. Rainfall is similar for all of Eastern England and Eastern Scotland. Average yearly sunshine here is 1574 hours, about the same as Hamburg, a little lower than Berlin, and higher than Cologne.

So it's you who is talking BS.

Summer temperatures are warmer in Germany for the most part, but that has nothing to do with rainfall.

B347589734859 claimed the UK was sunnier and received less precipitation than Germany. Now, to prove this he used the likes of London and Isle of Wight, totally ignoring Wales and Scottland. Are you able to see the error here?

[Neuling]

Originally Posted by westphal

Sorry, but that's just not true. The average amount of rainfall in Germany is about 750 liter and the sun shines for about 1,600 hours.

Here are the dates from Wiki for the UK:

England: 854.8 liter and 1,492.7 hours
Scotland: 1,520.1 liter and 1,160.4 hours
Wales: 1,433.5 liter and 1,359.3 hours
Northern Ireland: 1,111.6 liter and 1,219.7 hours

According to Wiki: "Cornwall is one of the sunniest areas in the UK with over 1,541 hours of sunshine per year."
That is significant lower than most places in Germany.

One difference is that in Britain most people live in the sunnier parts of the country, whereas in Germany that is not the case. The state of NRW is the most populous one and at the same time the gloomiest one in terms of climate.

Found a detailed map showing the sunshine hours for Britain:
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Img/296493/0085721.gif

And a map for Germany:
http://www2.balingen.de/tourist/wett...cheindauer.gif
NRW is where the pink and brown spots are.

The sunniest region in Germany is probably the Allgäu, where however few people live, it's like the Wild West of Bavaria ^^

[Jozef77]

@Neuling

Allgäu is extremely beautiful tho. Tourists go there mostly.

[B87]

Precipitation map


Days with rain

[Neuling]

Interesting maps, most of England gets less precipitation than Lisbon

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We've had 22mm of rain over the past month here, falling on 5 days. So rainy.