What is the Temperature in your city? (Part 5) (climate, ice, averages)
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Here you go again. So many of your posts come down to: "The UK is 50+° latitude so it can't possibly be as mild as it actually is."
The whole country doesn't average a single month below (or anywhere near) freezing. If that's not mild, especially for 50+° N, I don't know what is. It's probably the mildest country at that latitude in the world. Look anywhere else at 50+° N and you'll see at least some semblance of a proper winter that the UK only dreams of. Irkutsk for one at 52° N has an average January temperature of -18°C (0°F).
Seriously, if the UK "is not that mild," what is?
Yes they are places in the UK that have average lows below freezing like the following:
Also they are villages without weather stations that are most probably even colder
Most areas of the UK have lows during winter only 1 or 2C above freezing so dropping to -2C isn't really a big deal especially in a elevated area like Buxton, Bramar etc... Frosts in the UK is frequent inbetween weather fronts. The grampians, cairngorms have lows probably a good couple of degrees below 0. Places in the UK have laying snow all year round.
But yes the UK for its lattitude is very very mild but for most people in the world like florida, Southern france and the tropics those temperatures are not mild they're just cold.
Yes but i was giving extreme examples to show that -2c isn't rare even in our more populated ares, but then again you do live in Portsmouth the worse for getting sub zero temperatures alongside thwe southwest...
That's my point! London's low is 2C so getting down to 0C maybe widely spaced apart but it's common. We already got down to -4C LAST WEEK!!
People on here need to learn...
Oh I thought we were talking average lows of -2C...
Yes -2C isn't uncommon at all at this time of the year, even in milder parts of the UK. Saying that I don't normally record any air frosts here until around/just after Christmas...
Even in northern ireland castlederg has an average low of just around freezing, so to say that the whole uk has an average low above 0c is nonsense. -2c is not rare at all!!
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