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The annoying thing about our rainfall patterns is that it is a little bit of rain, spread out over a lot of days. The quantity of rain is fine (I wouldn't mind more, as long as it came in the form of heavy rain), but we very seldom experience severe rainfall events. We usually get light to moderate rain on a high percentage of days. Even the significantly drier cities of Eastern and Central England tend to experience more frequent flooding, and our region very rarely gets thunderstorms (there's a gradient from the South Eastern corner to the North Western corner, with the South Eastern corner receiving the most thunderstorms with our northwestern location often going an entire year or two without a 'proper' thunderstorm).
For its latitude Glasgow climate is not that bad. I don't think many places as north as Glasgow get as mild winters. The bad points are the lack of sunshine and bad summers but winters are quite good.
Yup, won't get those temps in winter in Canada at that latitude.
I give it a D- for the way too cool summer and cloudy skies.
The thought of living in a climate as bad as Glasgow's makes me feel sick. Here in southern England it's hardly tropical, but at least we get reasonably sunny summers.
I'll give it a very generous E.
You should post some pics once in a while from your neck of the woods. Looks like a really nice part of England to me.
Yup, won't get those temps in winter in Canada at that latitude.
I give it a D- for the way too cool summer and cloudy skies.
You're kinda right. Except maybe...BC?
The closest temps to Glasgow at similar latitude in winter would be on BC coast near the Alaska border.
Here is comparison, including for fun Philadelphia (15 degrees farther south)
Langara Island, BC...Glasgow,UK ......Prince Rupert,BC....Philadelphia
42F/36F december 45F/35F december 42F/32F december 45F/30F
41F / 35F january 44F/35F january 42F / 31F january 40F/26F
42F/35F february 45F/35F february 43F/32F february 44F/28F
You're kinda right. Except maybe...BC?
The closest temps to Glasgow at similar latitude in winter would be on BC coast near the Alaska border.
Here is comparison, including for fun Philadelphia (15 degrees farther south)
Langara Island, BC...Glasgow,UK ......Prince Rupert,BC....Philadelphia
42F/36F december 45F/35F december 42F/32F december 45F/30F
41F / 35F january 44F/35F january 42F / 31F january 40F/26F
42F/35F february 45F/35F february 43F/32F february 44F/28F
Our winter is def colder than BC. But far warmer than any other part of Canada besides their immediate west coast.
C- as the winters are well above freezing but the summers are bad.
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