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It's hard to sum up the most typical weather here, as sun hour percentages and rain days only vary a little between all months.
I guess a typical pattern would be 7-10 days of mostly sunny, dry weather, followed by 3-4 days of mostly cloudy, rainy weather.
Winter usually has the heaviest rains and most thunder. Summer is usually the windiest and with more dry periods.
Snow would be the most unusual weather.
Really you get more thunder in winter. I though NZ is really oceanic but I would of still expected that summer would have the most electrical activity.
Really you get more thunder in winter. I though NZ is really oceanic but I would of still expected that summer would have the most electrical activity.
There is a greater degree of warm and cold fronts colliding here during winter than during summer, which is where most of the thunder comes from.
Summer thunder is uncommon here, although there was a good storm a couple of weeks ago. Winter thunder is much more common and often happens when there is heavy snow falling on the tops
January - March: often cloudy, rain 1 out of every 3 days.
April: transitional, often sunny, breezy, rain on average once a week.
May - July/August: foggy nights and mornings and late afternoons. Otherwise sunny and breezy.
July/August - October: sunny and warm.
November: see April.
Positive, summers warmer and much longer than Finland
Longer, sure. Urban island -London beats most locations in Finland, but most cities in both countries are quite even in May-Aug. Go to Birmingham and north, to Wales or Cornwall, the most populated areas of Finland beats the UK.
In summer sunshine hours, i think 95% of Finnish stations wins the sunniest place in the UK. When was the last time your capital recorded over 400 hours of sunshine in a month? Our did in 2006.
I'll take UK:s March, April and October anytime, but for the other months I'll wouldn't make a trade.
You're much further north! But I get your point, Finnish summers are warmer relative to latitude than the UK's. Turku's average max of 22.3C in July cannot be beat by anywhere in the UK north of Birmingham, most locations in the south cannot match it.
Longer, sure. Urban island -London beats most locations in Finland, but most cities in both countries are quite even in May-Aug. Go to Birmingham and north, to Wales or Cornwall, the most populated areas of Finland beats the UK.
In summer sunshine hours, i think 95% of Finnish stations wins the sunniest place in the UK. When was the last time your capital recorded over 400 hours of sunshine in a month? Our did in 2006.
I'll take UK:s March, April and October anytime, but for the other months I'll wouldn't make a trade.
Helsinki is 10 degrees further north, you will only have about 4 hours of twilight then it's light again! I would take finlands sunshine definitely, but I wouldn't have your winters or one summer month
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Our did in 2006.
